"Attached is a photo of a tattoo I got immediately after turning in the final paperwork a little over two weeks ago for the completion of my Ph.D. in biological anthropology. It's the first evolutionary tree that Darwin sketched in his 1837 Notebook B on the transmutation of species." --Julienne
We're up to 64 tattoos in the flickr set, which has been seen by over 96,000 people since I set it up last month (which doesn't count the 130,000+ pageviews of the original post). I think I'll just post my favorite of the week each Friday until people stop sending them to me.
(See Darwin's original sketch here)
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Nice! It leaves out my favourite part of that diagram, though, which was the annotation, "I think." ;)
I actually have that tattooed on my shoulder - funny, I didn't think that anyone else had it. Since I can't post photos, here's a link to where a photo of it *is* posted (keep it mind, it's pretty fresh in this photo, and it looks better now that it's completely healed):
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2343641&userid…
Hmm... by blog precedent shouldn't this be taturday ?
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