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another proxy journey to a fabled land
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people do collect the strangest things… this daily series is full of fascinating details, much cheaper than a ticket to London to see for oneself
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Mandolin orchestras
I’ve been working on my mando holdings lately, and this lovely thing showed up via YouTube:
links for 2009-07-28
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(reminded by Juan Cole, via Tom Dispatch)
links for 2009-07-26
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what a wonderful trove, of enormous cultural significance
links for 2009-07-24
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"…a fabric, woven out of light-sensitive fibers, that can make a photograph. All by itself. No lens. No camera. No nuthin'. (Well, it is backed by a honking big load of computing. In 10 years, that will all be on a chip.)…"
links for 2009-07-21
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via Google Books, Holtzapffel's classic: a fascinating read for its Victorian technical language even if lathework isn't in your plans
links for 2009-07-20
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an extreme, surely?
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an Idea whose time is nigh
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good catch, Bryan! And see http://www.bbc.co.uk/psychoville/ for mooooore…
links for 2009-07-18
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yeah, you want to watch Mike Wesch for 33 minutes. I'm persuaded that this is REAL anthropology and I sort of wish I was a part of it. A Brief History of 'Whatever' (at 7 minutes) is worth the price of admission all by itself, and he throws in 'Meh' too
links for 2009-07-16
links for 2009-07-15
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1999 paper by Geoffrey B. West (a pdf, dunno if it will load properly)