February 21, 2009
Till all success be nobleness
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January 10, 2009
Nacirema at Ground Zero
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema was a paper written by Horace Miner which was originally published it in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist.
In the paper, Miner describes the Nacirema, a little-known tribe living in North America. The way in which he writes about the curious practices that this group performs distances readers from the fact that the North American group described actually corresponds to modern-day Americans of the mid-1950s
Nacirema on grow-a-brain 2 years ago
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Historical Tweets
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My Dearest Virginia,
It has been nearly fourteen hours since our last digital correspondence and my heart yearns for us to be in contact once more. Before I b –
From Reddit: “I've always thought it would be funny to start writing text messages with the eloquence and long windedness of old Civil war love letters”…
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November 15, 2008
Last New Rules of 2008
New rules: Hank Poulson must drop the 700 billion dollar in bailout money from a plane and let everybody scramble for it on the ground. Sure it will be chaos, but at least we have a change of getting our money back
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November 08, 2008
Extreme ironing
Why would a grown man make a web page devoted solely to ironing?
Explore The Magical World of Electric Irons
The JitterBuz site has dozens of exhaustive pages about many retro & nostalgic topics. See for example:
A Trip Inside Your Waffle Iron
My Experience with Erector Sets
Other Accessories
(Thank you, Neil Graf, for this amazing resource)
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Un-related; Floating Pens on flickr. (From Dinosaurs and Robots)
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September 28, 2008
Red Mark of Death
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Berlin, Cairo, Dresden, Dublin, Geneva, Lisbon, London, Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Rome, Seville, Toronto, and Warsaw … are all towns in Ohio
Red Mark of Death - Marks on condemned buildings throughout Buffalo, left by government workers. (Thank you, Tom Geller)
Grand Prismatic spring in Yellowstone National Park
Knitta please is a tag crew of anonymous rogue knitters who leave graffiti on monuments, utility poles, and other public items. Unlike traditional taggers, Knitta uses non-damaging materials, such as yarn and cloth.[1] The crew's mission is to make street art "a little more warm and fuzzy"
Sikh-Americans by Fiona Aboud
A guide to inexpensive Motels of Tucson, Arizona
Fried food at The LA County Fair
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March 03, 2008
Alternate History
Michael Eastman's Vanishing America
Worth 1000 Alternate History
Breaking news: Oral sex-related cancer at 30-year high
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February 13, 2008
No shirt, No Shoes, No Service
Selected World War I Draft Registration Cards: Famous, Infamous, and Interesting. (From Great War Fiction)
From “Twenty million illegals can’t be wrong” to “Some are more equal than others”, and 1200 plus others - Stephen Dubner (of Freakonomics fame) organizes a contest: Write a six-word motto for the USA
Detroit is beautiful, a flickr set. (From Natali Fisher)
Florence (Owens) Thompson, otherwise known as the Migrant Mother, as told by her grandson
Feb. 5, 1897: Egged on by an amateur mathematician, the Indiana General Assembly almost passes a bill adopting 3.2 as the exact value of pi (or π)
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November 30, 2007
PIN’s Revealed
A virtual tour of four historic homes in the Atlanta - If These Walls Could Speak
Every teenager dreams of working in a giant warehouse full of discarded nuclear test equipment… The Los Alamos Laboratory Salvage Yard
Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties, and Zip Codes Lists
Everybody's PIN Number Revealed: Someone actually wrote in requesting an explanation as to how this thing works.
"Sorry, we do not reveal our trade secrets."
How to wear a American Flag Pin
Jimmy Carter, cat murderer
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October 05, 2007
Code of the West
I know there are state songs, but I thought it might be a lot more interesting to compile a list of songs that mention states in the title. 50 states in 50 songs. Also, sharing the beauty of 50 states
The tourist guy, one of the world’s most famous photos
First chronicled by the famous western writer, Zane Grey, in his 1934 novel The Code of the West, no "written" code ever actually existed. However, the hardy pioneers who lived in the west were bound by these unwritten rules that centered on hospitality, fair play, loyalty, and respect for the land. (From Maggie’s Farm)
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July 18, 2007
And the rocket's red glare - Lots of bombs in the air
10MPH, a documentary about 3 people crossing the US on Segways
Colorful Newsstands Around Houston. (From All Things Cool)
Can you name all the U.S. Presidents?
(Also, Enrico Palazzo Sings the Anthem)
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June 21, 2007
The story of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
In 1791 and 1792, Andrew Ellicott and his surveying team placed 40 boundary stones around the perimeter of the District of Columbia, one at each mile of the original diamond shape…
Brookline ♥ U on Google Earth
Artist Kim Dingle asked teen-aged school kids in Las Vegas to draw their country in the shape they thought it had. The result is The United Shapes of America
The True Story of the Statue of Liberty, at Neatorama
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May 01, 2007
Pop. 100
The Theodore Roosevelt Renovation of 1902. (From The White House Museum. Thank you, BW)
The rivalry between The Jets & The Sharks - West Side Story: America
The Library of Congress has purchased the only known copy of a rare World Map that sheds a teeny ray of light on the discovery and naming of America. The price tag was $10 million. Often referred to as America's Birth Certificate, this 1507 Waldseemüller Map was the first to show the continents of North and South America, and the first to show the name America. (From the new Library of Congress Blog)
Complete List of Old West Gunfights
The Official Website of The United States of America (USA. From Link Bitch)
Design of the New U.S. e-Passport
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March 30, 2007
New Life For Biloxi's Live Oaks
Four live oak trees in the median of U.S. Highway 90 Biloxi that died as a result of hurricane Katrina received new life at the hands of a skilled chain saw artist
Flood Wall. New Orleans artist Jana Napoli collected hundreds of drawers from the flooded and abandoned neighborhoods in the days and months that followed
Map your planned trip from Fort Dick, California to Dickeyville, Wisconsin, and other interesting road trips you can make in the United States
4/30/07 Update: Chainsaw artist above is Dayton Scoggins
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February 16, 2007
I also have a dream
Map of U.S. Highways in 1927
Test your Typing Speed with the Gettysburg Address
The Federalist Papers: Pamphlets published by Madison, Hamilton and John Jay
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order? Is there a system behind the assignment of ZIP codes? Are they organized in a grid? The result is surprising and much more interesting than expected
Historic trees of Texas. (From Texas Escapes)
1924: a group portrait of members of Canon City KKK on and around the ferris wheel in Canon City, Colorado
Welcome to Google U.S. Government Search
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA. No 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.; No 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S; are brothers
Armed america: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes
(No time to blog tonight. Sorry)
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January 16, 2007
Bisonheads
In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron's internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into the lives and preoccupations of Enron's top executives during a turbulent period
Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer
Old buildings that have been moved in Montgomery, Alabama
Old Humarock, MA Post Card Presentation
New York Songlines. A Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets. (From Miss Representation)
Re-post: Talking to Americans - Aussie Edition
Breaking news: A man who won $315 million on Christmas 2002 is now broke!
** Unrelated: What Happened to Me on Friday **
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