Romeo, Juliet and Three Stooges

Eumpang Breuh: "The predominantly young, male viewers enjoying the series over coffee on any given evening see the series in terms of devotion to family, the economic and social customs of the village, anxiety over gender roles and the ability to find a trustworthy marriage partner – all things they identify as explicitly Islamic concerns."

Noh

Exquisite scrolls at The Nogami Memorial Noh Theater Research Institute.

The Master Violet Ray

Early American Energy Medicine: "Gleet - By the use of the urethral No. 21 and the rectal No. 23 tubes, unusual results have been obtained. Insert same with any antiseptic lubricant, giving 10 to 15 minute treatments daily."

James Varley

Hayley Hughes: "hahaha I found James on Model Mayhem and took him out of the goth shoot scene he was in and shot him for a Melb Street Fash editorial"
James Varley: "Not trying to sound argumentative Hayley, but claiming you took me out of the goth scene from that shoot is taking a little too much credit."

WWF – zarf

139 – Highest single word score so far.

WWF – 528

Highest game score so far.

WWF – xysti

xysti: "A long and open portico used especially by ancient Greeks or Romans for athletic exercises in wintry or stormy weather."

Ajax

Picturing the 30's has this painting by John Steuart Curry

Fritz Durien

Brewery album - Kansas Memory: "Fritz Durien and his warehouse treasury".

Dopy Dialogs

Being virtuous

Patience is a virtue: Looks like it might become an annual event. How can your deadline slip by more than two years?

Amusing alphabet

Le jardin d'acclimatation: "= the zoological garden."

Shalabhanjika

Early Indian Iconography: "Welcome to Early Indian Iconography Gallery."

The Game

Stuart Brisley: 'what goes down comes up'.

Myanmar as she was

Photographs of Burma: The album consists mostly of tree chopping and animal hunting activities, sometime in the 1900s.

Aerochrome

A Conversation with Richard Mosse: "Mark Twain’s 1905 political satire King Leopold’s Soliloquy portrays the Belgian king’s defense against the contemporary tide of human rights activism in the Congo Free State. ‘The Kodak’ it reads, ‘has been a sore calamity to us.’ More than a century later, I wanted to bring ‘the Kodak’ back to the Congo. But I also wanted to bring the Kodak to bear on the Kodak. I wanted to examine the medium itself.

Kodak Aerochrome was developed during the Cold War in conjunction with the US military. Flying at altitude with a nosemounted aerial camera, this film was able to cut through the ultraviolet haze, reading the infrared light spectrum bounced off the earth below. Chlorophyll in the landscape’s foliage reflects infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. Meanwhile, the earth and other contours absorb it. The green camouflage netting above hidden enemy sites absorbs infrared light while the surrounding vegetation bounces it directly back into the sky. In this way, the film technology was used to reveal an enemy’s location. By reading the landscape’s heat, the military had a way to perceive its hidden enemy."

cassiopeia

rememo: "A tiger's waiting to be tamed". A tumblr blog.

Deities

Pazuzu: "at the Oriental Institute."

Ink corrosion

The ink corrosion website: "presents information on iron gall ink; its importance in (art) history; and its slow, self-destructing properties known as iron gall ink corrosion."

Human Torpedoes

Kaiten type Human Torpedoes: "were the first Japanese 'Special Attack' weapons, vehicles whose operational use involved the certain death of the crew."

John Sweeney revisits the Church of Scientology

BBC News - Panorama: "In 2007, while investigating the Church of Scientology for Panorama, reporter John Sweeney had a dramatic on-camera confrontation with a church spokesman named Tommy Davis. The church was accusing the reporter of bias and it attempted to stop the documentary from being broadcast - a campaign backed by Scientology A-lister John Travolta. Sweeney has returned to investigate the church again."

Impermanence

The Planets Time Capsule: "is a metal box that contains at risk digital objects: a JPEG photograph, a message in Java source code, a short film in .MOV format, a web-page in HTML and a brochure in PDF.

Each object is stored in its original format and a new format more suitable for long-term preservation such as PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG2000 and MPEG4. The objects are stored on media that range from paper, microfilm and floppy discs to CDs, DVDs and flash-drives and HDDs.

Inside the box are the original and new objects, storage media, and some reading devices. It also includes conversion tools that were used to migrate the objects as well as software to open and view/use these objects and supporting software all the way down to an operating system; descriptions of the file formats, of the file systems and encodings used on the storage media; and description of all these objects and their relationship to supporting technology and recognised standards."

Stuxnet

Stuxnet: "is the first discovered worm that spies on and reprograms industrial systems."

Sam’al

The Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli: "is conducting a long-term, large-scale exploration of an important Iron Age city in southeastern Turkey, in the province of Gaziantep near the border with Syria."

Shirley, You Can’t Be Serious

The Bygone Bureau: "Jonathan Gourlay is white, and all of his students are black. What’s the one word he shouldn’t say?"

The Tenement Museum

"We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7,000 working class immigrants."

Consuming cats and dogs

Cats and dogs in the animal cruelty law: "Cruelty to Animals law (draft for expert feedback) states that for individuals, the illegal consumption or sale of the meat of dogs or cats may result in a fine of up to 5,000 yuan, up to 15 days in prison, and a signed statement of repentance; companies or organizations can be fined between 10,000 and 500,000 yuan."

X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight

NASA - Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate: "The X-15 was the ultimate 'X' vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic flight that was invaluable to aeronautics and to developers of the space shuttle. This book describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them." Available for download as .prc | .pdf | .epub | .pdb

Repo Chick release

Repo Chick (2009)"The crew came in for work on the fourth day and found that the RED Digital Cinema Camera, most camera accessories, a portable sound package, two computers, digital still equipment, and personal effects were stolen. The RED #1605 has not been found.
Director Alex Cox [Repo Man] was not a fan of the Red One camera, writing on his blog that "the hated high-tech camera continues to cause difficulties, problems, and slowdowns."
Scathing review.

Phoenix

U.S. Submarines: "The Phoenix would be suitable for use as an exclusive submarine cruise ship or as a charter yacht.

The estimated price of the Phoenix is $78 million."

Glamorous killing machine

Suren Manvelyan

ONCIX

Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive: "The ONCIX poster 'Espionage is No Sure Bet' won first place (Professional Category) in the National Classification Management Society's poster competition". I wonder how bad the others were.

The Lawrence Lions

Dunedin, New Zealand: "Thursday 30 March 1978 was a night of high drama in Lawrence, Central Otago, with 'Carlos' Circus' in town.

At about 8.20pm, following the late show, two of the three circus lions left the ring and found the door of the exit tunnel open. The three year old animals, called Sultan and Sonia, made their quick escape out into the football field where the circus was based."

SPARROW

Sound & Picture ARchives for Research On Women: "A trust set up in 1988 in Mumbai to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material."

Fovant Badges Society

WW1 military badges: "Carved in the chalk downlands of Wiltshire."

Paul Bowles

Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site

Jew is unacceptable

Sorry I haven't been posting much just recently. I have a new habit via my iPad. The Words with friends app is like crack for me. I have always loved Scrabble more than is respectable but my partner is not a big Scrabble fan, to say the least. When my daughter introduced me to the free app where I could play 24/7 with random people it was was like The. Best. Thing. Ever.
So, that's where I've been, and… I understand that the dictionary is limited (no, 'RADIONS'?) and there have to be some controls and my attempt to play 'cunt' recently might have offend my opponent but, 'JEW'. Give me a break.

Also: If there's a way to screen dump the iPad screen please let me know. Photographing the screen is so pants.

PS: I went with 'CREW"

Plastic surgery

Project facade: "The First World War was a war dominated by high explosives and heavy artillery. Battlefield casualties included an unprecedented number with horrific facial injuries - injuries so severe the men were commonly unrecognizable to loved ones and friends. Often unable to see, hear, speak eat or drink, they struggled to re-assimilate back into civilian life. This secondary tragedy - the living unable to 'live' - catalyzed Surgeon Sir Harold Gillies to transform the fledgling discipline of plastic surgery based on his unrivalled observation of the profoundly wounded and his ability to push the parameters of the profession beyond all known techniques."

Mainframe dark age

The Long Now Blog: "mainframes have peculiarities that date back to punch card. The job that runs the program that handles and stores your financial transaction must be submitted using a maximum of 72 characters per line because that's the how many holes a punch card had."

A little tin solder

Lead poisoning: "as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3"

Oyster Herpes

Latest Symptom of Global Warming?: "New strain can kill 80 percent of an oyster bed in a week, experts say."

Lappers

Norwegian pictures: "from the University of Bergen."