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| June 16, 2026 |
- Today's image, another from Old Book Illustrations, click it
for details.
- I'd like to visit Cleveland although I have no interest in their
Hall of Fame but there's
a new destination for rock fans who want to view their heroes'
accoutrements: Bruce has opened a
Center
for American Music in Monmouth, NJ. Apparently there's a lot of
Monmouth in New Jersey; the place I once visited (mid-90s) was Fort
Monmouth but I have almost zero memories of that business trip; what
I do recall was paying the cashier in the windowless cafeteria, who
was smoking a cigarette while making my change.
- A Slacktivist column about
evangelical
'roundup' posting (and working as a night watch-woman).
[Certain Christians] are required and
expected to post affirmations on Twitter, the way that certain
legal announcements are still required to be published in newspapers.
Reminds me of the printers seen in The Handmaid's Tale,
endlessly outputing unread prayers. Like electrically-spun
prayer wheels, one wonders if such entreaties please the
Almighty. I suspect He remains indifferent to displays of
piety like that.
- Flashbak:
Soviet
Science, After the Fall.
- Famelack.com is an
open-source project which employs a visual, global interface
like the Radio Garden to
access the international television protocol API for free
international TV. A major time-suck, beware!
- Tired of that internet silo you've been stuffed into? Find
some new sites to follow at
Early Web Links.
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| June 8, 2026 |
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- Earlier Rash would look forward at this post and
wonder about all this current talk of Love, which is written
'AI' in romanji. Its kanji, above; one of the
several basic ideograms the Japanese borrowed from the Chinese.
- Memories
of a City That Does Not Exist is an AI video
channel, for 'Sky City Showa 101'. Warning: noodle
slurping.
- A third recent comics discovery in the Archive,
The
World Of Wood, all fives Eclipse issues, published five
years after he
died.
- Another Hope It's True (or is this a bogus Sharper
Image product?) The
World's First Portable Laser Air Defense - Detecting
mosquitoes with Lidar and eliminating them with Laser for
cleaner, smarter, and more advanced mosquito control.
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| June 6, 2026 |
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| June 4, 2026 |
- My feed has perked up considerably since joining
/r/vexillology/ - this
is Malibu's municpal but the real fun is with all the new
flags people submit.
- The millennial, exhuberant "Koyaanisqatsi"-ish Chinese
New
Boy video which mentions Windows98 I quoted in a Metafilter
post yesterday (where I've been on a bit of
a
roll, recently).
- People will come to adore the technologies
that undo their capacity to think.
...as quoted by this
guy (Campbell Walker) who wants you to put down your phone and
channel your frustrated, creative energies into reading and
publishing 'zines. The
dirty little 'zine
site makes it easy. Stay Eager!
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| June 3, 2026 |
- If you were a fan of the early-web Yahoo! style
internet directories, check out
curlie.org.
- Going
to the People in Russia during the mad
summer of 1874, when a mass exodus
from Moscow and Saint Petersburg of up to 4000 students, some of
whom were offspring of the nobility, traveled to rural parts of the
empire in order to live among the peasants and "prepare them for
their future political role." Compare with the rusticated
youth of the
Down
to the Countryside phase of the Cultural Revolution (which
reminds me of two things, unrelated:
that Led
Zeppelin song and
Young
Lust #5.)
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