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| April 25, 2025 |
From EC Crime SuspenStories #12, "The Execution"
- Knowable Magazine,
Evolution
of the nervous system. Without the anus, heads
and brains would not have evolved.
- What's your destination when you just want to watch
some random internet video? Here's a new one,
astronaut.io,
which serves up 8-second samples from recently-uploaded
YouTubes that have little or zero views. Doesn't
seem to be entirely random; too bad you can't go back.
- One more from Vintage Everyday,
Carl Wuttke,
a German landscape and architectural painter
renowned for his vivid depictions of both European and exotic locales.
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- Well-done South China Morning Post article on
Bamboo
Scaffolding in Hong Kong. I took today's photo there last
year, a street-level view of one of these scaffolds (with advertising
for piano lessons). Click for biggery.
- "Andy's Atomic Adventures" was in the
Classics Illustrated
Adventures
In Science special from 1957, reviewed here by Dreams Of Space.
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| April 8, 2025 |
Today's pic, noodling around with
Gimp (the free
Photoshop), starting point a 60s parking lot pic, scanned
out of the "Wheels" volume of the
Time-Life Science Library.
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| March 27, 2025 |
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- Having just read a book about how
Henry Flagler
made the 'Railroad Over the Ocean' to Key West happen,
here's three stunning views of the Overseas Highway, both old and new;
1 -
2 -
3
and a three-minute drone-view of
what
remains of the first highway, where they built it on top of the original
Bahai Honda railroad bridge.
- At Curbside Classics,
clipping illegal mufflers and lights in 1952, Where I learn
of fart can exhaust
systems and cats-eye headlight covers. The thoughtless;
the selfish, and the attention-starved tampered with their vehicles in
unsafe, antisocial ways seventy-one years ago, as they still do now.
- We saw one of these AI videos back in October but I guess that was
specific to the TV show. Rosie's much nicer in this one, and it has
Astro, too -- 1950's Super Panavision 70,
The Jetsons.
See also their take on
Game
Of Thrones (a show I've only heard about, but never seen).
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| March 23, 2025 |
- Wikipedia:
Colors
of the Day, in Thailand; traditional
Thai birthday colors. Saturday is Purple Day; Friday is Light Blue.
- Regulars is a short film by Emma
Kopkowski. 24 hours in the life of
Jake's
Diner, in Greensboro.
- I've enjoyed perusing the
Radio.garden
previously. Now, with a click of your mouse in the
TV.garden, tune
into stations all over the world. Fascinating -- my
new favorite internet time-sink.
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| March 20, 2025 |
I'm gonna get one of these for my car only it'll say RASH
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early '50s Buicks had the best grills
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| March 8, 2025 |
- Look
and Feel Canadian Instantly!
- Wikipedia: the
Sinatra Doctrine was a Soviet
foreign policy under Mikhail Gorbachev allowing member
states of the Warsaw Pact to determine their own domestic affairs.
- And in the Washington Post,
Fashion designers used to be custodians for beauty. What happened? These are ugly times,
according to Rachel Tashjian, but that
makes a show like Prada at Milan Fashion Week, with its
deliberate awkwardness, so powerful. More critically, though, these
are æsthetically agnostic times...Everything looks like a
mess -- hair, graphic design, visual art, red-carpet looks.
In fashion, too many designers are doing things just to be weird,
or 'avant garde'.
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