Parkour!

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

2012-02-01T19:27:00.001-08:00

Prosiac or Most Incidentally Poetic Titles for a Maze Game and/or Pac-Man Emulator

2012-02-01T07:38:00.000-08:00

The Amazing Maze Game
Maziacs
Fat Worm Blows a Sparky
A-Maze
Chomp (Ms. Chomp)
1001 Crystal Mazes Collection
3D Monster Maze
Gobbler
Hangly-Man
Jawbreaker
Crush Roller
Snapper
Cosmic Cruncher
Hungry Horace
Munch Man
Felix and the Fruit Monsters
Gnasher
Pac-Gal/Pac-Girl
CD-Man
Joyman
3D Maze Man: Amazing Adventures
Robby Roto
Grabman
Pacman after Dark

Midway and Carnival Stories Online

2012-02-01T06:58:00.000-08:00

Araby by James Joyce.

Spurs by Tod Robbins (inspiration for Todd Browning's "Freaks").

You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You by John Updike.

Scripts from Carnivale
Carnivàle: After the Ball is Over
Carnivàle: Black Blizzard
Carnivàle: Milfay
Carnivàle: Tipton

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (Text of 1932)

2012-01-31T08:40:00.000-08:00

In full.

The Black Ferris (1953, Ray Bradbury) in Tales of the Crypt

2012-01-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

Source.

Scans of 19th Century Scottish Broadsides, with Murder Ballads

2012-01-25T06:14:00.000-08:00

Edwardian and Victorian-Era Ghost Stories

2012-01-23T19:49:00.000-08:00

Charles Dickens "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt" (1865)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu "An Account of Some Disturbances in Aungier Street" (1853)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon "At Chrighton Abbey" (1871)
Wilkie Collins "Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman" (1875)
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards "No. 5 Branch Line: The Engineer" (1866)
Mrs Craik (Dinah Maria Mulock) "The Last House in C---- Street" (1856)
Elizabeth Gaskell "The Old Nurse's Story" (1852)
Edith Nesbit "John Charrington's Wedding" (1891)
William Harrison Ainsworth "The Spectre Bride"
Edith Nesbit "Man-Size in Marble"
Bram Stoker "The Judge's House"
George MacDonald "Uncle Cornelius His Story" (1869)
Robert Louis Stevenson "The Body-Snatcher"
Rudyard Kipling "At the End of the Passage"
Thomas Hardy "The Withered Arm"
Mrs Henry Wood "Reality or Delusion?"
Thomas Street Millington "No Living Voice"
Sir Walter Scott "The Tapestried Chamber" (1829)
Arthur Conan Doyle "The Captain of the 'Pole-star'"
William Makepeace Thackeray "The Story of Mary Ancel" (1840)
Grant Allen "My New Year's Eve among the Mummies" (1880)
Richard Harris Barham "The Spectre of Tappington" (1840)
Robert Stephen Hawker "The Botathen Ghost" (1867)
John Lang "Fisher's Ghost" (1859)
E. G. E. Bulwer-Lytton "The Haunted and the Haunters" (1857)
H. G. Wells "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost" (1902)
Elizabeth Gaskell "The Crooked Branch" (1859)
Jerome K. Jerome "The Man of Science" (1892)
Théophile Gautier "The Mummy's Foot" (1908)

Metropolis from The Human Drift - King Champ Gillette

2012-01-23T16:45:00.000-08:00

Source.

Before perfecting his invention of the safety razor and founding what became a major American industrial and sales enterprise, King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) authored several books and pamphlets calling for radical changes in the country's economic and social system. The first of these polemical tracts, The Human Drift, called for the establishment of an ideal society to be created by The United Company "Organized for the purpose of Producing, Manufacturing, and Distributing the Necessities of Life." Except for agricultural and other rural pursuits, all activities and all the population would be concentrated in one gigantic urban complex that Gillette called "Metropolis."

Although Gillette's book has been regarded as part of the tradition of utopian romances like the better-known Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, it can also be looked on as a serious, if misguided, proposal for organizing the urban world. Gillette was a tinkerer and inventor, and "Metropolis" represents his verbal working model of a new kind of city. One wonders how many later planners or urban theorists knew of his book and how he thought a modern city should be ordered. He anticipates by many years Le Corbusier's concept of widely-separated, lofty skyscrapers, although it seems unlikely this Swiss-French designer would have seen The Human Drift. Much closer in time and space is the proposed hexagonal city plan by Charles Rollinson Lamb in 1904. Lamb might have found inspiration for his own less drastic vision of the city of tomorrow in Gillette's writings. Or, perhaps Walter Burley Griffin, deeply interested in city planning and seeking whatever writing existed on this subject, came across Gillette's hexagonal system. This may either have confirmed his own ideas about the use of geometric forms or set him to considering how this might be done. Griffin's design incorporating hexagons and octagons that won first prize in the competition for the plan of Canberra, Australia in 1912 may thus have had partial origins in Lamb's or Gillette's hexagonal city designs.

Gilette writes: "For many reasons I have come to the conclusion that there is no spot on the American continent, or possibly in the world. that combines so many natural advantages as that section of our country lying in the vicinity of the Niagara Falls, extending east into New York State and west into Ontario. The possibility of utilizing the enormous natural power resulting from the fall, from the level of Lake Erie to the level of Lake Ontario, some 330 feet is no longer the dream of enthusiasts, but is a demonstrated fact. Here is a power, which, if brought under control, is capable of keeping in continuous operation even manufacturing industry for centuries to come, and, in addition supply all the lighting;, facilities, run all the elevators, and furnish the power necessary for the transportation system of the great central city....

The manufacturing industries of "Metropolis" would be located east and west of Niagara River in Ontario and New York. The residence portion of the city would commence about ten miles east of Niagara River and Buffalo; and from this point to its eastern extremity, which would include the present city of Rochester in its eastern border, the city would be sixty miles long east and west, and thirty miles in width north and south, lying parallel with Lake Ontario, and about five miles from it.".

Spaceport America

2012-01-23T14:02:00.000-08:00

Source.

"Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico, where the Spaceport America Terminal Hangar Facility will serve as the operating hub for Virgin Galactic and is expected to house two WhiteKnightTwos and five SpaceShipTwos, in addition to all of Virgin's astronaut preparation facilities and mission control. Spaceport America has a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) long runway."

Land of Cokaygne (Manuscript and Translation)

2012-01-23T13:14:00.000-08:00

Source.

"This poem survives in only one manuscript, a small (less than 6 x 4 inches) collection of various items in different hands and languages (Middle English, French, and Latin).

Probably compiled in Ireland in the early-mid 1300s, the small format suggests a friar's pocket-book as they traveled on foot and needed to pack light. A few of the Middle English items, like Cockaygne and a drinking song making fun of local clerics and tradesmen, were clearly for amusement.

Most of the Middle English content is verse, sermons and lyrics designed for the instruction of the laity.The Land of Cokaygne is not an isolated poem; its fictional and parodic otherworld belongs to a tradition of poems dealing with an imaginary paradise where leisure rules and food is readily available."

Infographics for a Crisis

2012-01-23T06:20:00.000-08:00

Henry Blodget, a disgraced trader, came out with these succinct infographics, summarizing, for presumably the American business community, what prepared the climate for Occupy Wall Street.

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2012-01-23T06:07:00.000-08:00

Money. A very detailed poster on how it all works. Spotted on Nathalie de Meyer's Google+ feed. From xkcd. Apparently you can purchase the poster.

The Art Fairy Tale

2012-01-23T05:53:00.000-08:00

A Fairy Tale - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two Free Men - Sheila Heti

The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin

Grimoires

2012-01-22T04:52:00.000-08:00

Source.

The name "Grimoire" is derived from the word "Grammar". A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A Grimoire is, appropriately enough, a description of a set of magickal symbols and how to combine them properly. Most of the texts linked below are descriptions of traditional European ritual magick, which is based on Judeo-Christianity. Even though this must not be confused with neo-Paganism, many of the neo-Pagan traditions use similar rituals and techniques, albeit with a different (usually Celtic) vocabulary.

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage Translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1900]. This grimoire is a primary source for modern ceremonial magic.

The Magus By Francis Barrett [1801].

One of the rarest and most reputable treatments of ceremonial magic. Discusses topics such as alchemy, astrology, and the Kabbalah.

The Book of Ceremonial Magic

By Arthur Edward Waite [1913].

Comprehensive descriptions of rituals from classic grimoires, including extensive illustrations of magical seals. Grimoires covered include the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon, the Grimorium Verum, and the Black Pullet. Also known as the Book of Black Magic.

Sixth Book of Moses

Seventh Book of Moses

Two very mysterious grimoires. These two grimoires (originating from the same book) are often cited as being used by Vodun/Obeah practitioners. Although they claim to be Kabbalistic in nature, there is very little if any actual Kabbalah to be found in them. Rather this appears to be a traditional ritual magick system with incantations to summon and dismiss spirits to achieve worldly ends. Published in 1849, and translated into English in 1880, the 6th and 7th Books of Moses claim to include material from 1338, 1383 and 1501, including portions reputedly translated from the "Cuthan-Samaritan" language, which has been extinct since the 12th Century A.D., and about which very little is known. The most interesting aspects of this book are the unique illustrations of magickal seals, with letters in Hebrew and an unknown script; and the lists of names of demonic entities. Note: the images in this grimoire were originally printed in the 19th Century using very primitive printing technology. To prepare them for publication on the Internet, they were scanned from the best source available and then image-processed to bring out details. Unfortunately some of these plates have illegible portions. Note: the first five books of Moses are the traditionally the first five books of the Bible.

The Key of Solomon The King.

translated by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers [1888]

The key to modern ceremonial magic. Although the author of this grimoire was traditionally the biblical King Solomon, it was probably written in the 13th Century A.D. It was translated by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers in 1888; Mathers subsequently had a lot of influence in the Golden Dawn movement, one of the sources of modern ritual magic; it is said that he co-wrote its rituals with W.B. Yeats. Mathers also translated the Kabbalah.

The Lesser Key of Solomon by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley [1904].

The companion Grimoire to the Greater Key of Solomon, (for which, see above). It focuses on the characteristics of the various demons, and the summoning rituals.

Pow-wows; or Long Lost Friend by George Hohman [1820].

A grimoire in the "Pow-wow" tradition of the Pennsylvania Dutch. In spite of the name, Pow-wow is not a Native American tradition, but a rural European healing and hexing system which was imported into America in the 18th and 19th Century by German immigrants. After nearly dying out it has experienced a small revival in recent years.

The Sea Tree

2012-01-20T05:56:00.000-08:00

Source 1

Source 2

Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio has come up with a . . . structure that will apparently allow wildlife to thrive in urban areas.

The Sea Tree is essentially a giant floating park, which can be located in a river close to the bank. It's multiple layers allow various types of wildlife to find suitable habitats, with a large proportion of the structure housed underwater.

According to the Daily Mail, major cities like London or New York could see the introduction of Sea Trees within the next two years. An undisclosed lucrative client is apparently already taking a keen interest.

Anabasis by Xenophon (In English Translation)

2012-01-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

In full.

The Sport of Destiny (A Fragment Borrowed from Fact) - Friedrich Schiller

2012-01-18T05:50:00.000-08:00

In full.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Sigmund Freud

2012-01-08T07:02:00.000-08:00

In full

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

2012-01-08T06:58:00.000-08:00

In full.

Jailbait; The Story of Juvenile Delinquency

2011-12-21T14:29:00.000-08:00

Source

Retro-Futurism in French Encyclopedias 1945-1975

2011-12-21T14:12:00.000-08:00

Source.

Vintage Men's Bodybuilding Magazines

2011-11-20T10:16:00.001-08:00

International Pulp

Bob's Guys

"The Vulgarization of American Demonology" - Brock Bower (1964)

2011-11-18T17:15:00.001-08:00

Source.

Found this via an article posted by Brian Joseph Davis on G+.

Canadian Murder Ballads: A Preliminary Study of Ballads and Songs Showing Our Responses to Crimes of Violence - Tim Rogers (1984)

2011-11-18T14:09:00.001-08:00

In Canadian Folk Music Bulletin/Canadian FolkMusic. Volume 18.3: 1984.

Camp Records

2011-11-02T08:25:00.000-07:00

Source and complete archive of recordings.

"Almost nothing is known about the mysterious 60's record label Camp Records. They released an album and 10 45 rpm records of gay parody songs, most done with effeminate voices . . . . [T]hey were issued in the early 60's, as they all appeared in an ad in the gay magazine Vagabond, dated 1965. The address on the album record jacket was PO Box 3213, Hollywood, California, and it credited all selections to 'Different Music Co, Hollywood.'

The artists singing most of the songs were uncredited, or with names obviously made up, like Byrd E. Bath and B. Bubba."

Witch Photography Round Up

2011-10-25T19:28:00.000-07:00

Puppets at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

2011-09-25T17:05:00.000-07:00

Go see.

Lazzi

2011-09-25T16:38:00.000-07:00

Source.

Lazzi are essentially "gags" or stock jokes which can be added into a commedia dell'arte play or performance in order to ensure the comic action keeps pace. Traditionally the writers and actors in a troupe would have lazzi memorized so that they could insert them where needed. This trick kept up in theater into the motion picture era, and some film and TV writers still use stock jokes to enhance their work.

Virtual Game Exhibition

2011-09-25T15:35:00.000-07:00

A wide presentation of historical games with photographs. Here.

Thanks to the University of Waterloo.

Parkour's Thanksgiving Day Violent Baby Internet Round Up

2011-09-23T06:24:00.000-07:00

Heavy Metal Covers

2011-09-21T07:25:00.000-07:00

Source.

Historical Royal Canadian Militia men, Hussars, Dragoons . . . Uniforms and Ephemera

2011-09-21T07:03:00.000-07:00

Battle Royale: Character Design, with Weapons

2011-09-21T05:48:00.000-07:00

Slang and the 1930s

2011-09-20T18:58:00.000-07:00

B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Mobspeak Glossary

2011-09-20T18:30:00.000-07:00

From Finland!

A
Administration: the upper-level power structure of an organized crime Family, composed of the boss, underboss, and consigliere.
Associate: an almost-there; someone who works with and for wiseguys, but who hasn't been sworn in as a member of the Family.

B

Babania: Heroin, as in dealing. Lucrative but risky for mob insiders because if they're busted, long prison terms might compel them to cut a deal and squeal.
Babbo: A dope, idiot, useless underling.
Beef: a complaint or disagreement within the organization, usually discussed during a sit-down with higher-ups in the Family.
Big earner: someone who makes a lot of money for the Family. A LOT of money.
Books, the: euphemism for membership in the Family, since nothing is ever written down. When there is an availability (when someone dies), the books are "opened." When no one is being "made," the books are "closed."

Borgata: a crime Family; brugad.
Boss: the head of the crime Family; he is the only one who gives permission to "whack" or "make" someone, and he makes money from all Family operations; synonyms: don, chairman.
Boss of Bosses; Capo di tutti capi: While no one proclaims himself the Boss of Bosses anymore, the press awards this title to whomever they feel is the boss of the strongest of the five Families of New York, who is also said to preside over Commission meetings.
Broken: demoted in rank; "knocked down."
Brugad: a crime family; borgata.
Burn: to murder; synonyms: break an egg, clip, do a piece of work, hit, ice, pop, put out a contract on, whack.
Button: a "made" member of the Mafia; soldier, wiseguy, goodfella, Man of Honor.

Cafone: a phony or embarrassment to himself and others; "gavone" (slang pronunciation)capo: ranking member of a Family who heads a crew (or group) of soldiers; a skipper, short for capodecina.
Capo di tutti capi: see Boss of Bosses
Chased: to be banished from the Mafia and barred from associating or doing business with any made members. The punishment is merciful in that the offender is spared death.
Cleaning: taking the necessary steps (driving around, stopping in various locations) to avoid being followed.
Clip: to murder; see burn
Clock: to keep track of someone's movements and activities.

Comare: a Mafia mistress; "goumada" (slang pronunciation).
Come in: To go see the boss when summoned.

Commission, The: the Mafia "ruling body", typically a panel made up of the bosses of the five New York Families, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanno sometimes with representatives from other U.S. Families, such as Chicago.

Compare: crony, close pal, buddy. Literally, "godfather" in Italian.

Consigliere: the counselor in a crime Family; advises boss and handles disputes within the ranks.

Contract: a murder assignment.
Cosa Nostra: Italian for "this thing of ours," a mob family, the Mafia.
Crew: a group of soldiers that takes orders from a capo.
Cugine: a young toughguy looking to be made.

Do a piece of work: to murder; see burn.

Earner: someone whose expertise is making money for the Family.
Empty suit: someone with nothing to offer who tries to hang around with mobsters.
Enforcer: a person who threatens, maims, or kills someone who doesn't cooperate with Family rules or deals.

Fence: someone with worldwide outlets to liquidate swag.
Friend of mine: introduction of a third person who is not a member of the Family but who can be vouched for by a Family member.
Friend of ours: introduction of one made member to another.

Gavone: see cafone.
Get a place ready: To find a burial site.
Gift: A bribe, sometimes for a juror.
Give a pass: To grant a reprieve from being whacked.
Going: About to be whacked.
Going south: stealing, passing money under the table, going on the lam.

Goombah, Goomba, Gumba: Sicilian slang for the Italian compare; plural: goombata

goumada: see comare.

Hard-on with a suitcase: mob lawyer; feminine: half a hard-on with a suitcase.
Hot place: a location suspected of being the target of law enforcement or surveillance.

Ice: to murder; see burn.

Joint, the: prison; synonyms: the can, the pen, go away to college.

Loanshark: someone who lends mob money at an exorbitant interest rate; a shylock.

Made: to be sworn into La Cosa Nostra; synonyms: to be "straightened out," to get your button.
Make a marriage: to bring two parties together for legitimate or illegitimate Family issues.
Mattresses, hitting the, taking to the: going to war with a rival Family or gang.
Meat eater: a corrupt cop (not exclusively mobspeak).
Mustache Petes: Old fashioned or older generation Mafiosi.

Nut, the: mobspeak for "the bottom line"; also the gross profit figure.

Omertá: the code of silence and one of the premier vows taken when being sworn into the Family. Violation is punishable by death.
Off the record: an action taken without the knowledge or approval of the Family.
On the record: an action sanctioned by the Family.

Piece: a gun.
Pinched: arrested.
Pop: to murder; see burn
Problem: A liability, someone likely to be whacked.

Rat: a member who violates Omertá; synonyms: squealer, canary, snitch, stool pigeon, yellow dog.

Shylock: see loanshark
Sit-down: a meeting with the Family administration to settle disputes.
Skim: Tax-free gambling profits, as in the money taken that is not reported to the IRS.
Skipper: a capo.
Stand-up guy: someone who refuses to rat out the Family no matter what the pressure, offer, or threat.
Swag: stolen goods, also an acronym for "stolen without a gun."

Vig: the interest payment on a loan from a loanshark (short for "vigorish"). Synonym: juice.
Vouch for: to personally guarantee--with one's life--the reputation of someone dealing with the Family.

Walk talk, take a walk: to conduct a sensitive discussion while striding up and down the block to avoid being overheard on those pesky eavesdropping devices.
Whack: to murder; see burn.

Young Turks: Younger, less traditional generation of Mafiosi. Less likely to live by the old rules.

Zips: American Mafiosi's derogatory term for Sicilian Mafiosi.

Jeff Wall

2011-09-20T16:39:00.000-07:00

At the Moma.

The World’s Most Beautiful Parking Garages

2011-09-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

Source.

The Economist's Glossary of Economic Terms

2011-09-20T10:43:00.000-07:00

A Treatise on Relics by John Calvin

2011-09-20T10:14:00.000-07:00

In full.

Stories - Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965)

2011-09-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

Wikipedia
The Adventures of Buster Bear
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer
The Adventures of Mr. Mocker
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
Adventures of Reddy Fox
The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
Blacky the Crow
Bowser the Hound
The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Happy Jack
Lightfoot the Deer
Mother West Wind "How" Stories
Mother West Wind's Children
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Old Granny Fox
Old Mother West Wind
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse

The Sibylline Oracles (6th c bc)

2011-09-20T09:41:00.000-07:00

In full.

"As the translator notes, this collection should more properly titled 'the Pseudo-Sibylline Oracles'. The original Sibylline Books were closely-guarded oracular scrolls written by prophetic priestesses (the Sibylls) in the Etruscan and early Roman Era as far back as the 6th Century B.C.E. These books were destroyed, partially in a fire in 83 B.C.E., and finally burned by order of the Roman General Flavius Stilicho (365-408 C.E.).

There is very little knowledge of the actual contents of the original Sibylline Books. The texts which are presented here are forgeries, probably composed between the second to sixth century C.E. They purport to predict events which were already history or mythological history at the time of composition, as well as vague all-purpose predictions, especially woe for various cities and countries such as Rome and Assyria."

Word Spy

2011-09-20T09:18:00.000-07:00

Link.

"The word lover's guide to new words."

Example: annotated reality

n. Extra information—such as images or sounds—supplied to a person from a wearable computer.

Example Citation:
"The devices include everything from Schwartz's fishnet vest adorned with connected components, to laptops-in-fanny-packs, to thick glasses that reflect a video display in one lens. The glasses provide a dominant vision of the real world that is overlaid by information from an electronic world. Such information overlays are called annotated reality, a subcategory of wearable computing distantly related to virtual reality."

—Chris Oakes, "Waiting for Wearable Wearables," Wired News, October 19, 1999

Related Words:
affective computing
augmented reality
e-textile
innernet
memory glasses
mixed reality
real reality
reality distortion field
wearable

Categories:
Hardware
Gadgets and Appliances

Learning from Las Vegas - Robert Venturi

2011-09-19T18:29:00.000-07:00

Excerpts. With illustrations. (And spelling mistakes).

The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Frederick Jameson

2011-09-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

An excerpt.

Modern Theater is Epic Theater - Bertolt Brecht (1930)

2011-09-19T18:03:00.000-07:00

An excerpt.

Suspiria De Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1891)

2011-09-17T18:55:00.000-07:00

	GENERAL INTRODUCTION	xi
	SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS:
	Introduction, with Complete List of the 'Suspiria'	1
1.	The Dark Interpreter	7
2.	The Solitude of Childhood	13
3.	Who is this Woman that beckoneth and warneth me from the Place where she is, and in whose eyes is Woeful Remembrance? I guess who she is	16
4.	The Princess who overlooked one Seed in a Pomegranate	22
5.	Notes for 'Suspiria'	24

An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (1784) - Immanuel Kant

2011-09-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

The essay.

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime - Immanuel Kant

2011-09-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

In full.

Brecht Poetry Online (in English Translation)

2011-09-14T15:12:00.000-07:00

A Worker Reads History
Alabama Song
Contemplating Hell
Der Pflaumenbaum (The Plum Tree, translation)
Elogio al Aprendizaje
Fragen
From A German War Primer
Future Generations
How Fortunate the Man with None
I Never Loved You More
I Want To Go With The One I Love
Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt...
From A German War Primer
I want to go with the one I love...
I'm not saying anything against Alexander
Mack the Knife
My young son asks me...
Not What Was Meant
O Germany, Pale Mother!
On Reading a Recent Greek Poet
On the Critical Attitude
Parting
Pleasures (Translation with the original German)
Questions
Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Radio Poem
Send Me a Leaf
Solidarity Song
The Mask Of Evil
The Solution
The Tattered Cord (Der Abgerissen Strick, translation with original German)
To Be Read in the Morning and at Night
To Posterity
To read in the morning and at night...
To the Students of the Workers' and Peasants' Faculty
To Those Born After
United Front Song
What Has Happened?
Alabama Song
Contemplating Hell
From A German War Primer
How Fortunate The Man With None
I Never Loved You More
I want to go with the one I love...
Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt...
Kinderhymne (Children's Hymn)
Mack The Knife
My young son asks me...
Not What Was Meant
O Germany, Pale Mother!
On Reading A Recent Greek Poet
On The Critical Attitude
Parting
Questions From A Worker Who Reads
Radio Poem
Send Me A Leaf
Solidarity Song
The Mask Of Evil
The Solution
To Be Read In The Morning And At Night
To Posterity
To read in the morning and at night...
To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty
To Those Born After
United Front Song
What Has Happened?

Selected Stories of Agnes Boulton

2011-09-13T18:53:00.000-07:00

Introduction

His Former Wife - 10 Story Book, May, 1910
With Eyes of Flesh - Young's Magazine, May, 1913
Out of the Past - Breezy Stories, January, 1917
In Bohemia - Breezy Stories, July, 1917
Oh, La-La! - Breezy Stories, January, 1918
Only a Shop Girl - Breezy Stories, March, 1918
The Snob - The Smart Set, June, 1921

Shimmer (So-so Hilarious Names for Colour Grades of Nail Polish)

2011-09-13T13:39:00.000-07:00

A Rose at Dawn . . . Broke by Noon
An Affair in Red Square
Aphrodite's Pink Nightie
Argenteeny Pinkini
Ate Berries in the Canaries
Baby Its Coal Outside
Bastille My Heart
Bling Dynasty
Blushingham Palace
Brand New Skates
Brights Power
Catch the Garter
Chicago Champagne Toast
Clubbing Til Sunrise
Comet Love Cupid
Cuddle by the Fire
Dating a Royal
Deer Valley Spice
Designer Mystery
Dim Sum Plum
Dinner For Two
Dress to Empress
ElePhantastic Pink
Euro-Mazing
Flashbulb Fuchsia
French Bordeaux
Funny Bunny
Gala Gold
Ginger Bells
Give Me Moor!
Have You Seen My Limo?
Hawaiian Orchard
Hearts and Tarts
Holy Pink Pagoda
I Don't Do Dishes
Is Not That Precious?
Just Beachy
Let's See the Ring
Magnifico Mexico
Makes Men Blush
Matched Luggage
Meet Me on the Star Ferry
Megawatt
Miami Beet
My Chihauhua Bites!
Off with Her Red
Ogre The Top Blue
Panda-Monium Pink
Pillow Talk
Pink Flamenco
Pistol Packin' Pink
Plugged-in Plum
Plymouth Lox
Red Red Rhine
Rosy Future
Samoan Sand
Sand In My Suite
Sea Ya Later, Sailor!
SeaGullible
Second Honeymoon
Sheer Your Toys!
Silver Snowflake
Suzi and The Lifeguard
Tangerini Bikini
Text Me Text You
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Tropical Punch

The World of Thomas Nast

2011-09-12T17:37:00.000-07:00

Source.
Google Images.

Glossary of Bridge Terminology

2011-09-12T16:44:00.000-07:00

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ

Drunktionary

2011-09-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

Vernacular of drink. Extensive.

A to B
C to D
E to H

I to O
P to S

T to Z

Quotes

E.T.A. Hoffmann

2011-09-12T14:53:00.000-07:00

Mlle de Scuderi (1819)
The Story of the Hard Nut (1819)
Councillor Krespel (1819)
The Sandman (1817)

Unfilmed Hammer Films

2011-09-12T14:24:00.000-07:00

Source.

The Scandal Sheet Proto-Blog Empire of Stephen G. Clow

2011-09-12T13:53:00.000-07:00

From the Awl.

World Kigo Database

2011-09-12T13:31:00.000-07:00

At last.

Pin Up Galleries: Alberto Vargas, George Quaintance and Chéri Hérouard

2011-09-12T12:56:00.000-07:00

Alberto Vargas
Gallery.

George Quaintance

Gallery

Chéri Hérouard

Illustrations for La Vie Parisienne on Flikr
Other Work on Flikr
Google Images

The Falls - Kevin MacMahon (1991 Documentary)

2011-09-12T12:13:00.000-07:00

Watch.

United States Patent US2201689 - Walt Disney, The Art of Animation.

2011-09-12T09:58:00.000-07:00

Copy of the original patent.

Alphonse Mucha

2011-09-12T09:01:00.000-07:00

Website of the Mucha Foundation
Website of Mucha Museum in Prague
The Slav Epic official site (EN)
The Slav Epic
Works by Alphonse Mucha at the Art Renewal Center
Painting by Mucha Graces Pisek, N. Dak., Church
Mucha Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
Alphonse Mucha – article on La Plume
Alphonse Mucha – illustrations from Le Pater

Poems of Shel Silverstein

2011-09-12T07:18:00.000-07:00

1 Where the Sidewalk Ends
2 Weird-Bird
3 The Toucan
4 Smart
5 Sick
6 Rain
7 One Inch Tall
8 It's Dark In Here
9 Forgotten Language
10 Danny O'Dare
11 Boa Constrictor

The Adventures of Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

2011-09-12T07:10:00.000-07:00

Chapter 1 - Peter Breaks Through
Chapter 2 - The Shadow
Chapter 3 - Come Away, Come Away!

Chapter 4 - The Flight
Chapter 5 - The Island Come True
Chapter 6 - The Little House
Chapter 7 - The Home Under The Ground
Chapter 8 - The Mermaids' Lagoon
Chapter 9 - The Never Bird
Chapter 10 - The Happy Home
Chapter 11 - Wendy's Story
Chapter 12 - The Children Are Carried Off
Chapter 13 - Do You Believe In Fairies?
Chapter 14 - The Pirate Ship
Chapter 15 - "Hook Or Me This Time"
Chapter 16 - The Return Home
Chapter 17 - When Wendy Grew Up

For a transcript of the Disney Film: Go Here.

The Image of the City - Lynch, Kevin (1954-1959)

2011-09-12T06:08:00.000-07:00

An overview.

"Overview and outline of the Perceptual Form of the City study, a research project investigating the individual’s perception of the urban landscape."

Vintage Ad Pitches

2011-09-11T18:57:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of: Radium and You.

Quite a guide. Sample below. See: Pitch Perfect.

Quality beyond the call of duty (Nunn-Bush Shoes).
Quality in tires is the key to safety (U. S. Rubber).
Quality tells, economy sells (Red & White Food Stores).
Quality you can taste (Adhor Dairy).
Racy, embracy story of a gal who lived and yearned, The (movie)
Ralston’s puts the B-1 in breakfast (cereal).
Red and blue make white (Gilbert Paper).
Red by chance and READ by choice (Redbook Magazine).
Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Beer).
Refrigerator you hear about, but never HEAR (Electrolux).
Regal guy deserves a Regal tie, A (Regal Ties).

Plumb Tastless . . . Colonel Sanders on Canadian Cooking

2011-09-11T18:08:00.000-07:00

Play clip.

The Cloud of Unknowing (14th c.)

2011-09-11T17:56:00.000-07:00

In full.

"13 Films Featuring the Lamest Robots"

2011-09-11T17:29:00.000-07:00

Source.

The Total Depravity of Man by A.W. Pink

2011-09-11T14:52:00.000-07:00

In full.

The Player

2011-09-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

In full.

Great discussion of Nolan Bushnell's (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese) early career, touching upon subjects of consumer electronics and recreational robots, the possible social purpose of video games, the economic links between pizza parlors, midways and video game consuls, and divorced, single parents in the 1980s.

Nikolai Gogol

2011-09-08T08:46:00.000-07:00

Source.

Novels

Taras Bulba [1835]
Dead Souls [1841-46]

Plays

The Gamblers [1843]
The Inspector-General (The Government Inspector) [1836]

Short Stories
St John's Eve
A May Night ; or the Drowned Maiden
Taras Bulba [1835]
The Viy
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich)

Arabesques (1835, short story collection) :
Memoirs of a Madman (Diary of a Madman)
The Nose [1836]

The Calash (The Carriage) [1836]

Rome (1842, fragment)
The Cloak (The Overcoat) [1842]
The Mysterious Portrait [1842]

List of Evocative Names for 1960s House Paint Colours

2011-09-07T14:37:00.000-07:00

Source 1.
Source 2 (Same source, different article).

Malibu Peach
Oyster White
Sage Green
Dark Mint
Walnut
Dawn Gray
Sunburst Yellow
Coral Pink
Quaker Brown
Strand Green
Live Oak Green
Devon Cream
Silver Wing Gray
Scotch Gray
Midday Blue
Pueblo Red
Pebble Gray
Patio Pink
Zenith Blue
Shasta Gray
Cameo Cream
Raffia

List of Most (or Least) Compelling Nancy Drew Titles

2011-09-07T13:31:00.000-07:00

The Mystery at Lilac Inn
The Clue of the Tapping Heels
The Mystery at the Ski Jump
The Haunted Showboat
The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
The Mystery of the 99 Steps
The Clue in the Crossword Cipher
The Double Jinx Mystery
The Kachina Doll Mystery
The Case of the Photo Finish
The Haunting of Horse Island
The Search for the Silver Persian
The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears
Mystery on the Menu
The Case of the Floating Crime
The Message in the Haunted Mansion
The Case of the Dangerous Solution
The Baby-Sitter Burglaries
The Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle
The Door-to-Door Deception
The Mystery in Tornado Alley
Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland
The Case of the Creative Crime

Weimar Ephemera

2011-09-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Sources
Under the Root: Women and Weimar Germany 1920's

BLICKFANG: The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin

Vintage German Illustration (This collection is very big!)
Sexy Weimar

The Dweller in the Gulf Clark - Ashton Smith (1932)

2011-09-04T15:20:00.000-07:00

In full.

The Star Wars Holiday Special

2011-09-04T11:45:00.000-07:00

No one likes this.

Transcript.

New York 1930s Venereal Disease Poster

2011-09-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

Source.

BART SIMSON YUGOSLAV @BARTSIMSON_REAL SPINGFEILD

2011-09-04T07:12:00.000-07:00

"THE SIMSONS. IM BART, OFFICAL BART. REAL. MY DAD HOMTRE AND MAM IS MAGRE. BABY AND GIRL SITSER ARE OTHERS. BART SIMSON. OFFICAL YUGOSLAVIA SIMSON. THE SUMSONS."

Tweets.

This parody account flamed out after a few feverish months. "Bart Borat," the anonymous author described it as, before turning on his "geek" followers, and turning the account into a much meaner, personally directed parody of a saccharine, mawkish deaf motivational speaker's tweets ("I Respect Females").

Niagara Falls (1953)

2011-09-01T19:31:00.000-07:00

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)

2011-08-31T12:58:00.000-07:00

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Letters on Natural Magic - David Brewster (1781-1868)

2011-08-28T18:23:00.000-07:00

In full.

Jetsons Background Paintings

2011-08-27T21:29:00.000-07:00

Source.

Scooby Doo Background Paintings

2011-08-27T21:01:00.000-07:00

Source.

Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - Author: A. Alpheus (1903)

2011-08-27T16:46:00.000-07:00

How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use.

In full.

The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud (1900)

2011-08-27T15:32:00.000-07:00

In full.

Technocracy Rhetoric

2011-08-23T11:42:00.000-07:00

My unconstrained mirth for the literature ( . . . and recent! . . . ) of Technocracy knows yet no limits.

It is as if to see the rhetorical excesses of Socialism--for one, but any of the large-scale, utopian schemes descended from the Enlightenment--in the funny mirror.

If eccentric, declamatory pamphlets positing to solve by superior reason the globe's most knotty, thorny, intractable problems are your thing, the official site has numerous, hilarious freebies.

Warning Shadows - Schatten (1923)

2011-08-23T07:04:00.000-07:00

Russ Meyer's Motor Psycho (1965)

2011-08-21T12:37:00.000-07:00

Twin Peaks Episode 2 - Cooper's Dream

2011-08-18T09:40:00.000-07:00

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick (1978)

2011-08-17T20:10:00.000-07:00

In full.

The Humbugs of The World by P. T. Barnum (1865)

2011-08-17T19:44:00.000-07:00

THE

HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

AN ACCOUNT OF HUMBUGS, DELUSIONS, IMPOSITIONS,
QUACKERIES, DECEITS AND DECEIVERS
GENERALLY, IN ALL AGES.

BY
P. T. BARNUM.

“Omne ignotum pro mirifico.”—“Wonderful, because mysterious.”

The Soviet Circus: A Collection of Articles (1967)

2011-08-17T17:24:00.000-07:00

The Durovs, Y. Dmitriyev, 1963
The Circuses of Europe, A. Gryazno, 1963
Chekhov and the Circus, L. Gavrilenko, 1960
A. Kuprin, Circus Fan, H. Verzhbitsky, 1960
Maxim Gorky's Impressions of the Circus, A. Lebedeva, 1958
Stanislavsky's Love of the Circus, A. Anastasyev, 1963
"Merry Evenings" at the Art Theatre, V. Gotovfsev, 1962
Fond Recollections, Alisa Koonen, 1963
Moscow in Flames, (V. Mayakovsky and the Circus), A. Fevralsky, 1940
Meyerhold and the Circus, A. Fevralsky, 1963
Sergei Eisenstein's Circus Projects, Y. Krasovsky, 1960

The Democratic Forest - William Eggelston

2011-08-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

Eggelston Trust

1976
John Szarkowski's introduction to William Eggleston's Guide 1976.

1977
Fonvielle, Lloyd. Preface to Election Eve. 1977.

1983
Sischy, Ingrid. "Matters of Record." Art Forum. February 1983.

1984
Holborn, Mark. "Color Codes." Aperture. Fall 1984.

Schneider, Peter. "The Berlin Series." Aperture. Fall 1984.

1986
"William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest 1984/85." Camera Austria.1986.

1989
Welty, Eudora. Introduction to The Democratic Forest. 1989.

Holborn, Mark. Afterward from The Democratic Forest. 1989.

Hagen, Charles. "An Interview with William Eggleston." Aperture. Summer 1989.

1991
Holborn, Mark. Introduction to Ancient and Modern. 1992.

1994
Grand Street, 1994.

Sampson, Tim. "William Eggleston." Memphis Magazine. March 1994.

1999
Hopps, Walter. "Eggleston's World." Essay from The Hasselblad Award.1998.

Weski, Thomas. "The Tender-Cruel Camera." Essay from The Hasselblad Award. 1998.

Eskildsen, Ute. "A Conversation with William Eggleston." Interview from The Hasselblad Award. 1998.

Wagner, Bruce. "William Eggleston, Mystagogue." From 2 and 1/4. 1999.

Booth, Stanley. "Brilliant Careers: William Eggleston." Salon.comSeptember 7, 1999.

1999
Howell, John. "In Plain Sight." Aperture. Winter 2001.

2000
"The Lot." The New York Times Magazine. November 12, 2000.

2001
"William Eggleston" Blind Spot. September 2001.

Tartt, Donna. "William Eggleston." Art Forum. October 2001.

2002
Grant, Richard. "Roving Eye." Telegraph Magazine. June 29, 2002.

"Irony is Far from Me." Leica World. 2002.

2003
Weski, Thomas. "Draft of a Presentation." Essay from Los Alamos.

"William Eggleston: Memphis Bungalows and Night Portraits." Grand Street. 2003.

Golden, Michelle. "William Eggleston: Living Color." PDN. January 2003.

Lewis, Jim. "Kodachrome Moment: How William Eggleston's Revolutionary Exhibition Changed Everything."

Slate.com February 10, 2003.

2004
O'Hagan, Sean. "Out of the Ordinary." The London Observer. July 25, 2004.

Keats, Johnathon. "William Eggleston." Art & Auction Magazine. October 2004.

Mazzoleni, Florent. "Eggleston." Vogue Homme. Fall 2004.

Schwabsky, Barry. Interview for Kulture Flash. November 22, 2004

Imitation of Life (1959)

2011-08-17T09:47:00.000-07:00

Script

The Symbolism of the Tarot by P D. Ouspensky (1913)

2011-08-17T09:02:00.000-07:00

Card I. The Magician
Card 0. The Fool
Card II. The High Priestess
Card XXI. The World
Card III. The Empress
Card XX. Judgment
Card IV. The Emperor
Card XIX. The Sun
Card V. The Chariot
Card XVIII. The Moon
Card VI. The Lovers
Card XVII. The Star
Chad VII. The Hierophant
Card XVI. The Tower
Card VIII. Power
Card XV. The Devil
Card IX. The Hermit
Card XIV. Time (Temperance)
Card X. The Wheel of Chance
Card XIII. Death
Card XI. Justice
Card XII. The Hanged Man

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

2011-08-17T08:57:00.000-07:00

Film.
Script.

Transcripts of Buster Keaton Films

2011-08-01T21:32:00.000-07:00

A
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Allez Oop
Around the World in 80 Days

B
Back Stage
Ballonatic, The
Battling Butler
Beach Blanket Bingo
Bell Boy, The
Blacksmith, The
Blue Blazes
Boat, The
Butcher Boy, The

C
Cameraman, The
Chemist, The
College
Coney Island
Convict 13
Cook, The
Cops
Country Hero, The

D
Daydreams
Ditto
Doughboys

E
E-flat Man, The
Electric House, The

F
Film
Forever and a Day
Free and Easy
Frozen North, The
Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Forum, A

G
Garage, The
General, The
General Nuisance
Go West
Goat, The
God's Country
Gold Ghost, The
Good Night, Nurse!
Grand Slam Opera

H
Hard Luck
Haunted House
Hayseed, The
Hayseed Romance
High Sign, The
His Ex Marks the Spot
His Wedding Night
Hollywood Cavalcade
Hollywood Revue of 1929
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

I
In the Good Old Summertime
Invader, The
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

J-K
Jail Bait

L
Li'l Abner
Limelight
Lovable Cheat, The
Love Nest, The
Love Nest on Wheels, The

M
Mixed Magic Moderno Barba Azul, El
Mooching Through Georgia
Moonshine
My Wife's Relations

N
Navigator, The
Neighbors
Nothing But Pleasure

O
Oh Doctor!
One Week
One-Run Elmer
Our Hospitatlity
Out West

P
Pajama Party
Paleface, The
Palooka From Paducah
Paradise for Buster
Pardon My Berth Marks
Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath
Passionate Plumber, The
Pest from the West
Playhouse, The

R
Railrodder, The
Roi des Champs-Elysees
Rough House, The

S
San Diego, I Love You
Saphead, The
Scarecrow, The
Scribe, The
Sergeant Deadhead
Seven Chances Sherlock Jr.
She's Oil Mine
Sidewalks of New York
So You Won't Squawk
Speak Easily
Spite Marriage
Spook Speaks, The
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Sunset Boulevard

T
Taming of the Snood
Tars and Stripes
Ten Girls Ago
That Night With You
That's the Spirit
Three Ages, The
Three on a Limb
Timid Young Man, The
Triumph of Lester Snapwell, The

V
Villain Still Pursued Her, The

W
War Italian Style
What! No Beer?

Coma by Thomas Brush (2010)

2011-07-31T06:58:00.000-07:00

"Who Killed Bambi?" - A screenplay by Roger Ebert (1977)

2011-07-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

"This, for the benefit of future rock historians, is the transscript of a screenplay I wrote in the summer of 1977. It was tailored for the historic punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and was to be directed by Russ Meyer and produced by the impresario Malcolm McLaren. It still carried its original title, "Anarchy in the U.K.," although shortly after I phoned up with a suggested title change, which was accepted: "Who Killed Bambi?" I wrote about this adventure in my blog entry McLaren & Meyer & Rotten & Vicious & me. Discussions with Meyer, McLaren and Rene Daalder led to this draft. All I intend to do here is reprint it. Comments are open, but I can't discuss what I wrote, why I wrote it, or what I should or shouldn't have written. Frankly, I have no idea." - from Roger Ebert's Blog.

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