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Twitter refreshes its iconic bird logo — this time, with overlapping circles
The company has decided to update its bird again. So, what’s so different about the current logo (right)? It’s made of circles and nothing but. “This bird is crafted purely from three sets of overlapping circles — similar to how your networks, interests and ideas connect and intersect with peers and friends,” the company says. A couple of fun facts about the bird: First, the initial logo was an iStockPhoto they likely spent $6 on initially, and second, the bird’s name is Larry. Yes, after that Larry Bird. Anyway, what do you think about the new logo? Necessary?
Deadly Spiders Spark Fear, Death in India
Mysterious thumb-sized spiders rampage through northeast India leaving two dead and several others with painfully swollen bites.
“It looks like a new species. We haven’t been able to identify it,” said ecologist L.R. Saikia of India’s Dibrugarh University in the Associated Press.
Image: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images - Professor Ratul Rajkhowa of the Department of Zoology of Cotton College holds a dead spider that was the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on June 4, 2012.

A quick reminder of what’s at stake in Novemb … oh, who are we kidding? This is just hilarious/sad. What’s next? Kel Mitchell asking Joe Biden for an orange soda hookup?
oh god… maybe she should have just stuck to The Amanda Show?

aw, precious! (disclaimer: i can’t speak for all of the handle… but this *is* cute.)
It wasn’t that long ago. Selma Alabama 1963.

Bryan Nash Gill - Woodcuts, 2005-2011
Gill uses recycled lumber, covers the surface of the wood with ink and washi paper, and with his fingers and fingernails presses and scratches the pattern of the tree rings into the paper until the impression is completely and evenly represented.

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