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December 17, 1940
From /r/historyporn: “Children of Japan, Germany, and Italy meet in Tokyo to celebrate the signing of the Tripartite Alliance between the three nations, on December 17, 1940. Japanese education...
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New York, 1954: Looking North on Broadway from 45th Street
Photography by Andreas Feininger. Featured in Life magazine. The same general neighborhood today. You can go home again, even if only in pictures. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Bypassing Spam Filters
The scumbags are getting more inventive. Thanks to Unicode, many characters will display on the Internet which won’t flag spam keyword detectors, allowing such rubbish to trickle through. Things like...
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Homeless
The Rev. David Buck sits next to the Jesus the Homeless statue that was installed in front of his church, St. Alban’s Episcopal, in Davidson, N.C. This statue of a homeless Jesus disturbed many in...
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Ripley’s Believe It or Not – Phineas Gage
I have always loved Robert Ripley. As time has gone on, the stories he has reported have been expanded upon and documented; some have proven to be misunderstandings, but very rarely if ever was...
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Stopping for lunch, 1960
Robert Kennedy stops for lunch while on the campaign trail for his brother, John F. Kennedy. Bluefield, West Virginia, 1960. A different world, different times. Caption from Shorpy: “Spring 1960....
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Yes, things have changed.
Found this video the other day, and it made me smile. Back in the day, the stores only had VHS tapes (and a precious few, like Video Vern’s in West Valley, had a Betamax section), Devices like this...
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Hollywood and Vine, ca. 1952.
Notice the cars trying to squeeze through a red light… Pretty much the same view as of 2011, courtesy Google Maps. If you ask me, the view was a lot more interesting back then. Today’s situation seems...
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K’minyan Tov
I have long loved and respected the work of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and Maus II, two graphic novels which autobiographically recount the experiences of his father Vladek through World War II and...
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“You agree to accept cookies.”
No, I don’t. I don’t give a rat’s south-40 what your cookie policy says. I will block your cookies, I will block your ads, and I don’t agree to your Terms of Service. And there’s nothing that you or...
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Dangerdust
Two students. Not much spare time. But a universe of creativity at their fingertips. Meet Dangerdust. Despite our overwhelming workload at Columbus College of Art & Design we bring it upon...
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There is no “weird trick.”
I’ve written about this bit of Internet stupidity before. It boggles my mind that scummy advertisers continue to use this, but it must generate revenue, or they wouldn’t do it. Lower My Bills [1] is...
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False memory syndrome
I recently came across a fascinating article entitled “The Reykjavik Confessions: The mystery of why six people admitted roles in two murders – when they couldn’t remember anything about the crimes.”...
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Colored School at Anthoston
Seen at Library of Congress Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. “Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of...
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Gluten Sensitivity? Only if you *really* have Celiac disease.
I have reblogged this article from Business Insider for the benefit of those who can’t see the article with NoScript. Apparently this page embeds 16 tons worth of trackers and scripts. Note: There are...
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Going Medieval on Lord of the Rings
No, it’s not The Last Supper – it’s the Council of Elrond. A friend of mine over at Facebook made me aware of the 100-gigaton-whoopass illustrations in a Tumblr post by egelantier, who explains that...
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How the Other Half Lives
I was just made aware of a marvelous website, authentichistory.com. It’s not completely up-to-date, some of the image links are broken, but it’s got some amazing stuff to peruse. This picture,...
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Why is it so hard to store energy?
Good question; and here’s a lovely answer by a redditor, /u/api. The second law of thermodynamics, which basically says that energy is determinedly lazy. It would much rather dissipate itself as heat...
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Relentless Spammers
These people don’t give up. Despite my sending them the vilest possible insults in Chinese, along with demands that they cease and desist, I get one of their spam messages almost every week. From:...
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“Mega Millions” scam from Jamaica
Had a call today from “Mega Millions Corporation” about a “coupon” that I had filled out at one of my “local convenient grocery stores,” supposedly “last March.” I was told that I had won a bank check...
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