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  • Design for Obama

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 22:59 in politics, books, graphic design

    It was an experiment in linking grassroots activism with the political machine using new technology, and it is being studied by wonks around the world.Hundreds of artists and designers expressed support for the Obama candidacy by designing posters an...

  • Guard of honour

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 21:46 in science, Photography

    Staff of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre let the chimps watch the burial of Dorothy, an elderly chimpanzee, so they could come to terms with her loss. From Times Online....

  • Shorpy

    Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 04:06 in politics, Photography, history

    Michael Leddy coined the wonderful expression 'dowdy world' to describe glimpses of bygone times that occasionally pop up in old movies, television shows, or anywhere at all. His definition: “modern American culture as it was before certain forms o...

  • Histoire des races maudites

    Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 01:07 in history, miscellaneous

    Sitting in her little house near Tarbes, in the French Pyrenees, Marie-Pierre Manet-Beauzac is talking about her ancestry. For most people this would be agreeable, perhaps even pleasurable. For the 40-something mother-of-three, the story of her blood...

  • Steamer trunk office

    Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 23:21 in design

    I'm calculating what I would have to sell to get my hands on one of these.This is the Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk, made of "Vintage Cigar Leather", whatever that is.The blurb reads:Crafted by antiques dealer and furniture maker Timothy Oulton of ...

  • 'Cold Comfort Farm'

    Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 01:00 in books, writing

    I’ve just had a thoroughly good time reading Stella Gibbons’ ‘Cold Comfort Farm’, and marvelling that a satirical novel published in 1932 could still be so much fun, long after the sources of the joke have faded or disappeared entirely.It was...

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