July 30, 2011
— rdbrewer "White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.[1]
White light can be generated in many ways. The sun is such a source, electric incandescence is another. Modern light sources are fluorescent lamps and light-emitting diodes. An object whose surface reflects back most of the light it receives and does not alter its color will appear white, unless it has very high specular reflection.
Since white is the extreme end of the visual spectrum (in terms of both hue and shade), and since white objects - such as clouds, snow and flowers - appear often in nature, it has frequent symbolism. Human culture has many references to white, often related to purity and cleanness, whilst the high contrast between white and black is often used to represent opposite extremes." --Wikipedia
Open Thread.
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Posted by: Tami at July 30, 2011 05:38 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 05:41 AM (sVk8z)
Google it!
Posted by: alexthechick at July 30, 2011 05:44 AM (sf+iw)
Posted by: Tami at July 30, 2011 09:38 AM (X6akg)
We thought we told you to stay in the cloakroom, Tami . . .
Posted by: the Senate at July 30, 2011 05:44 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 05:46 AM (sVk8z)
Posted by: Airport Announcer at July 30, 2011 05:47 AM (3I2Ox)
We thought we told you to stay in the cloakroom, Tami . . .
Posted by: the Senate at July 30, 2011 09:44 AM (smvTK)
There are inferior hobo pelts in there...
Posted by: Tami at July 30, 2011 05:48 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 30, 2011 09:48 AM (wk1nH)
Damn RINOs . . .
Posted by: Tea Party at July 30, 2011 05:48 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: Vic at July 30, 2011 05:50 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at July 30, 2011 05:51 AM (3I2Ox)
Posted by: Vic at July 30, 2011 09:50 AM (M9Ie6)
You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday too, man!
Posted by: Random AoSHQ moron at July 30, 2011 05:52 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 05:52 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 05:52 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: The Donkey Show at July 30, 2011 05:54 AM (ijjAe)
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (4q5tP)
As I skimmed through this, I read the last word as "gayness".
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (LHAov)
I reflexively clicked on the Kim Kardashian link. Is that all she's famous for?
I'm not complaining, not by any means, just askin'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Chick with a fat ass at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Al Sharpton at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (bvXGR)
Posted by: Paul into beastiality at July 30, 2011 05:55 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: Ned from Tulsa at July 30, 2011 05:56 AM (STTZD)
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at July 30, 2011 05:57 AM (DZcRU)
Posted by: the Senate at July 30, 2011 05:58 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: Yakoff Smirnoff at July 30, 2011 05:59 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:00 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: Al Sharpton, Mel King, Jesse Jackson, local shakedown coalition of phony ministers 666 at July 30, 2011 06:00 AM (ijjAe)
Posted by: filbert at July 30, 2011 06:01 AM (smvTK)
Nice pic of a ghost milking a white cow in a snowstorm.
True artistic genius.
---
Hmmm, I thought it was a polar bear drowning on an ice floe.
Posted by: Retread at July 30, 2011 06:01 AM (G+7cD)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:02 AM (zPb4d)
Does The Thread Cover mean we can only rip Odumdum half the time?
Cuz if so, I'll have to make a judgement call on how to apportion my contempt.
Posted by: ontherocks at July 30, 2011 06:02 AM (HBqDo)
Posted by: Rev. Dr. Lowery at July 30, 2011 06:04 AM (4q5tP)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4402897013051860643
I live in a shanty in the shantytown. We have no money so we had to sleep on the ground. I played the music. My father he dig a ditch. My mother she do laundry life sure was a bitch. But 'till we killed the white people. Ooh we gun make them hurt. Kill the white people yea. But buy my record first. Ooh yea. Why don't you buy my record? We sing of freedom and ooh equality. But we really don't care we just want money money money. We want to drive in a big black limosine. Get so high off ganja we cant even see. And then we kill the white people. Ooh we gunna make them hurt. Kill the white people. Yea. Ooh but buy my record first ooh. Kill The White People by Eddie Murphy When u go in the record store. We gunna wait outside. We gunna hit them in the head with a bat and make them cry. But 'till we kill the white people. Yea but buy my record first.
Posted by: Umm at July 30, 2011 06:04 AM (CFhHo)
Posted by: kelleyinvirginia at July 30, 2011 06:04 AM (VIqi1)
Posted by: The Donkey Show at July 30, 2011 06:06 AM (ijjAe)
Posted by: NPR Art Critic at July 30, 2011 06:08 AM (d0Tfm)
I stand, boy I say I stand foursquare in support of the White Thread, and white sheets and white perogatives generally.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn Byrd, The Conscience of the Senate at July 30, 2011 06:08 AM (2wKsS)
.....This austere painting counts among the most radical paintings of its day, yet it is not impersonal; the trace of the artist's hand is visible in the texture of the paint and the subtle variations of white. The imprecise outlines of the asymmetrical square generate a feeling of infinite space rather than definite borders.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 30, 2011 06:09 AM (/kd4o)
These (some NSFW) will make you feel a lot better about yourself. (unless you're pictured here.)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:10 AM (zPb4d)
Most people see it for what it is, but nobody knows what to make of it; is it an undesirable fungus or is it a delicacy to be consumed like a gourmet truffle?
Posted by: Fritz at July 30, 2011 06:10 AM (/ZZCn)
FIFY until someone starts selling "Heat Bulbs" in the US.
Posted by: Dave C at July 30, 2011 06:10 AM (idSAM)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 30, 2011 06:11 AM (/kd4o)
Posted by: NPR Art Critic at July 30, 2011 06:12 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 06:12 AM (sVk8z)
Here to watch Harry do a dance or two and watch Boehner do an Orange Squirm?
You're a little ripe, why don't you go stand over next to Lindsay Graham. He hangs out with geriatrics. (which is pretty much the whole Senate).
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:13 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 06:14 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Zombie Robert KKK Byrd at July 30, 2011 06:14 AM (sVk8z)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 06:16 AM (sVk8z)
Leave my future ex-wife alone!!
Posted by: Dave C at July 30, 2011 06:16 AM (idSAM)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:17 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: some dope at July 30, 2011 06:18 AM (+kznc)
I'm not complaining, not by any means, just askin'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 09:55 AM (d0Tfm)
No, she also got peed on in a sex tape so she's go that going for her.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 10:12 AM (sVk8z)
And dorked in the squeekhole, so I'm told, on tape. That dame is nothing but class, dignity, grace, and elegance.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 30, 2011 06:18 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: ontherocks at July 30, 2011 06:18 AM (HBqDo)
Posted by: some dope at July 30, 2011 06:20 AM (+kznc)
I could be all mixed up on that though.
Never was much good at geography.
Posted by: teej at July 30, 2011 06:20 AM (WHmDb)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 30, 2011 10:12 AM (sVk8z)
And dorked in the squeekhole, so I'm told, on tape. That dame is nothing but class, dignity, grace, and elegance.
Sooo, would those be considered highway miles or city miles?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 06:21 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:21 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 30, 2011 06:21 AM (a5ljo)
Posted by: The Donkey Show at July 30, 2011 10:06 AM (ijjAe)
Bitch! SHUT UP!
Posted by: Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, and Bill Walton at July 30, 2011 06:26 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Robert17 at July 30, 2011 06:28 AM (LaaRT)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at July 30, 2011 06:28 AM (g3OU+)
Posted by: Y-not at July 30, 2011 06:31 AM (XiC+y)
Posted by: Vic at July 30, 2011 09:50 AM (M9Ie6)
Agreed, when I was young I had to walk 15 miles in the snow to:http://tinyurl.com/3sz54pz
Posted by: The Robot Devil at July 30, 2011 06:32 AM (g3OU+)
Wow. I am now looking at the 1985 Celtics roster and there were only like 3 or 4 black guys on the team. In the NBA, you have to TRY to be that white. It would be like the Montreal Canadians having 5 starters who were not black.
Posted by: Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, and Bill Walton at July 30, 2011 06:32 AM (yQWNf)
predicting hollywood = smokey and the bandit, BJ and the bear, macguyver, cannonball run, wonder woman.
watch for em.
Posted by: str8 outta at July 30, 2011 06:33 AM (2Sg3P)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:33 AM (ZDUD4)
As if there's a difference. OLGW videos are the next big thing.
BIG.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 30, 2011 06:34 AM (r0Vmd)
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows- a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues — every stately or lovely emblazoning — the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge — pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear colored and coloring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?
Posted by: S.collar at July 30, 2011 06:36 AM (CFhHo)
So back off or you're dinner.
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
-- Meatloaf --
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:37 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, and Bill Walton at July 30, 2011 10:32 AM (yQWNf)
Sock and content fail.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 30, 2011 06:38 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:38 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:39 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 30, 2011 06:41 AM (KbEJl)
Oh Man, That's funny. Very nice.
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 10:33 AM (ZDUD4)
But now I feel dirty, but not as dirty as this young lady:http://tinyurl.com/3v5g9jz
Posted by: The Robot Devil at July 30, 2011 06:41 AM (g3OU+)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 30, 2011 06:41 AM (/kd4o)
Posted by: yoko blowmo at July 30, 2011 06:42 AM (oUG6f)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 30, 2011 10:41 AM (KbEJl)
I feel that same way when my wife turns on C-SPAN when Congress is in session...
Posted by: The Robot Devil at July 30, 2011 06:43 AM (g3OU+)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:43 AM (ZDUD4)
That was me, Tami. Didn't you notice the pre-1968 Toronto Maple Leafs sweater?
Posted by: andycanuck at July 30, 2011 06:44 AM (oUG6f)
Posted by: Barack O'Putter at July 30, 2011 06:46 AM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:46 AM (ZDUD4)
But now I feel dirty, but not as dirty as this young lady:
She needs a shower, with me doing Quality Control.
Lots and lots of QC...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 06:47 AM (d0Tfm)
http://tinyurl.com/3v5g9jz
Posted by: The Robot Devil at July 30, 2011 10:41 AM (g3OU+)
She's gonna need hosing off.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 30, 2011 06:47 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Oldsailors poet at July 30, 2011 06:48 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: shame the shameless at July 30, 2011 06:49 AM (dh5Eu)
Hawthorne, or at least it appears Melville wanted to from all the literary praise and outright stalking he did concerning Hawthorne.
Posted by: The Donkey Show at July 30, 2011 06:49 AM (ijjAe)
Posted by: filbert at July 30, 2011 06:49 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: The Donkey Show at July 30, 2011 10:06 AM (ijjAe)
Don't foreget about us!!
Posted by: DKos' Nutroots Summit at July 30, 2011 06:50 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at July 30, 2011 06:50 AM (4sQwu)
About the same. Different attitude.
(Top pic is Obama's Inaugural. Scroll down for TEA Party Demo.)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 06:50 AM (zPb4d)
Don't make the mistake of wrapping a gift to a Japanese customer in white gift wrap. They don't much care for it.
Posted by: As IF... at July 30, 2011 06:51 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2011 06:51 AM (h+qn8)
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2011 06:54 AM (h+qn8)
Ok so will Obama pass a bill of any kind / will He have Reid write bill giving Him his hearts desire such as they did with Obamacare and pass it by executive order?
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2011 06:58 AM (h+qn8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 30, 2011 06:58 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: george william henry harrison at July 30, 2011 06:59 AM (oUG6f)
Posted by: DJIA at July 30, 2011 07:00 AM (Ivg8J)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 07:03 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: john lenin at July 30, 2011 07:04 AM (oUG6f)
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 07:07 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: willow at July 30, 2011 07:07 AM (h+qn8)
Lindsay Graham DRIPS.
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 11:01 AM (zPb4d)
McCain drools.
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 30, 2011 07:09 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Sheila Jackass Lee at July 30, 2011 10:04 AM (bvXGR)
Thread winna.
Posted by: RushBabe at July 30, 2011 07:14 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: john lenin at July 30, 2011 07:15 AM (oUG6f)
Some folks'll do anything to keep from being called racist.
Why? Being a racist or bigot isn't so bad. It's only when you take actions that those attitudes are unlawful.
Being f**king idiots and electing a crypto-muslim, communist/socialist race hustler to the highest most powerful office in the world; THAT'S BAD.
Posted by: Where's rdbrewer? at July 30, 2011 07:23 AM (zPb4d)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 30, 2011 07:25 AM (oUG6f)
Posted by: Clueless Libtard White person at July 30, 2011 07:30 AM (ZDUD4)
Merck plans to slash 13,000 jobs by 2015
Townsend (poultry processor) closes the Siler City plant 1,000 jobs "affected"
Contracts with 200 chicken farmers to be "terminated"
The NC state unemployment rate rose in June to 9.9%
Posted by: mrp at July 30, 2011 07:52 AM (HjPtV)
That movie could not be made today. Especially by a Jew.
God-damned fucking intolerant bastard son-of-a-bitch thought-police goose-stepping brownshirt Nazi Suckers of Cock . . .
But other than that they're really fine people. Or so I'm told.
"Didn't you notice that that man is a Ni???"
Posted by: filbert at July 30, 2011 07:54 AM (smvTK)
Posted by: moviegique at July 30, 2011 08:08 AM (Cepxj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 30, 2011 09:00 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Zombie Brian Epstein at July 30, 2011 11:01 AM (FDCne)
There are so much to learn from your post here, Uma, well done.
Posted by: Fire and Rain AudioBook at July 30, 2011 04:52 PM (SU+B4)
Posted by: Molon Labe at July 30, 2011 10:50 PM (g5MrG)
Posted by: GHD Straighteners at July 30, 2011 11:13 PM (aLmvz)
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