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from The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong. Aw, gwan… listen to it. A fine example of context-building in the writing: "…So let the jazz purists frown at what they perceive as the sad ending of Louis Armstrong, singing kids songs. He sure as hell doesn’t sound sad to me and that trumpet solo is the truth, my friends…"
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via Google Maps Mania, the sort of thing I've been imagining for years, and including layers like Murdock's [semi-bogus] map of ethnic entities. Geography reborn, just as I've been saying since…
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from The Automata / Automaton Blog, via BoingBoing
Monthly Archives: February 2009
links for 2009-02-25
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twang.
Katy Hill
It’s somehow not quite fair to rediffuse stuff that appears on BoingBoing (I mean, who doesn’t read BoingBoing?), but this one is just too wonderful to miss:
Kalamazoo
Over at dippermouth.blogspot.com there’s a discussion of Louis Armstrong’s take on “I’ve Got A Gal in Kalamazoo” that includes a wonderful video clip with an even more right-on intro:
…(Regarding the vocal by Tex and The Modernaires, I once showed this to an old friend from high school and all he could say was, “White people….ugh.”)
[but hang in there –after 4 minutes of whiteface bathos there’s a specTACular Nicholas Brothers dancing take on the tune]:
links for 2009-02-24
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Language Log is almost always apposite. Here's cultural commentary and even MIT geekery, elegantly drawn too
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sooo worth your time, 20-some minutes of it. From The Guardian
links for 2009-02-22
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from Swapatorium
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Joe Manning's labor of love, tracking down and interviewing descendants of Hine's subjects
links for 2009-02-20
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as usual, there may be more than one (Shorpy again)
links for 2009-02-18
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from Making Maps: DIY Cartography
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and don't miss the Saga of Joseph Palmer, halfway down
links for 2009-02-17
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sez Stephen: don't ever buy any other kind of snowshoe
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EVERYbody is pointing to it, so I'll join in too. Good stuff.
links for 2009-02-16
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from A Journey Round My Skull, and all 4 parts are well worth your time