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A remarkable photo.
Year: 2008
Links of the year 2007
After a quick and dirty winnowing-out, here are what might be the best of the links which I posted last year.
Arctic artefacts — Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!!
Bait-Fishing Crows — Beautiful Specimens — bird-eating bats — Building Stonehenge
C19th London snail-gatherers — chilled bees & yellow rain — Chinese building blocks — College Republicans — Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon — Croatian bees sniff out landmines
Faster speciation in the tropics? — Fela Kuti documentary — Flags By Colours — Flight Exposure — Fossil Rivers
hamster-powered paper shredder — hobo nickels — Hothead: 1902 — how to camouflage a whole factory — human yellowhammer
Iggy Pop’s concert rider — Intensified continuity revisited
Jamaican Label Art — Japanese Love Hotels — Jen Stark paper sculptures
La Tonnara and the Chamber of Death — Large ejaculate from a spiny genital organ — look-a-like portraits
on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ
Pac-Man the text adventure — Parasite manipulates host’s sense of smell — Photosynth demo — pigeons aligner — Plains Indian Ledger Art — plaster casts of termite mounds — Polk Miller — Polynesian Stick Charts
Rafael Benitez The Magician — RIP Joe Engressia, the original Phone Phreak — Roxanne Shante: Who need a royalty check?
Simon Norfolk photographs — Some So-Called Out of Place Artifacts — spiny anteater reveals bizarre penis — stripper polaroids — Super Mario levels that play themselves
Taliban portrait photos — Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78 — The Bhagavata Purana — The Broken Column House — The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson — The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web — The flipping ship — The Visual Erotics of Mini-Marriages — thread in spiderwebs — Toutes les autos de Tintin — Typography and HMS Victory
Enjoy.
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‘At christmastime the streets of Buenos Aires are full of fruitcake…’
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“Anyhoo, without further ado, here’s a little prenatal techno for ya.” wayne&wax makes music from the ultrasound of his baby-to-be.
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Gilbert White’s C18th natural history journals posted in blog form. via things magazine.
Puy & pea soup
I cooked a ham over Christmas so I had ham stock in the freezer; which means pea soup. But I didn’t have many peas in the freezer so I added some Puy lentils (those little tiny green French ones). And it was very nice. The earthiness of the lentils and the freshness of the peas worked well together.
I chopped up a potato and an onion and sweated them down for a bit, then added the ham stock, brought it up to the boil, added the lentils and simmered them for about 40 minutes. Then I added some frozen peas, simmered it for another 5 or 10 minutes, and blitzed it with a blender. It will probably be improved with a little seasoning, but bear in mind if you’re using home-made ham stock it may be a bit salty already.
I would have added some chunks of ham if I’d had any left, but it didn’t need them. And if you were being really perfectionist for some reason—like the Queen coming to dinner—you could pass the soup through a sieve before serving; but again, it was fine as it was.
Links
Links
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‘I had an idea today to take mug shots and make them into cheesy studio portraits or glamour shots. I call them Glamour Mug Shots.’
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cool photo at Shorpy: ‘June 1939. Tygart Valley, West Virginia. Homesteaders’ daughters in a potato field.’