• Antebellum Instruments: c.1962 Martin 00-21
  Jake has a jewel here, and I'd be jealous but for the fact that I have one too –mine's 1966, but equally lovely Brazilian rosewood and that distinctive 00-21 sound. Yeah…
  (tags: musics guitars)

• Kunstler on "the oldest established permanent traffic fiasco in America"
  Pretty good invective (and ethnographically accurate too) down to the last two (entirely predictable if one reads Kunstler regularly) paragraphs
  (tags: nacirema ethnography)

• Dumneazu: Árus Feri Playing My Violin! Transylvanian Fiddle Roots.
  mooooore verbunk!
  (tags: musics Hungarian)

• Pho in Budapest: The Hanoi Restaurant, Zuglo
  via Dumneazu, always of gustatory interest
  (tags: food)

• America makes nothing except weapons – Boing Boing
  jeez.
  (tags: economics war argybargy)

• LA Facades
  another proxy journey to a fabled land
  (tags: photography ethnography collections)
• London Shop Fronts – Fortess Tandoori Takeaway, Fortess Road NW5
  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
  (tags: collections ethnography photography)

I’ve been working on my mando holdings lately, and this lovely thing showed up via YouTube:

• A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan, on the death of the Ahkoond of Swat
  (reminded by Juan Cole, via Tom Dispatch)
  (tags: poetry ethnocalumny curiosa)

• Dan Gillmor's eJournal archives
  what a wonderful trove, of enormous cultural significance
  (tags: nacirema technologies journalism)

• Picture Postcards?!?
  "…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.)…"
  (tags: whoa photography geekery technologies)