John Cameron and the History of English Football « More Than Mind Games
Fascinating essay over at MTMG about a footballer called John Cameron and the early history of English football.
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BBC - Ouch! - Features - What’s your Sign Name?
Interesting article about 'sign names' - i.e. the nicknames deaf people give [...]
the simpsons house, whycocomagh on Flickr
'sara and i passed this house, and were both like, "what the hell? STOP THE CAR."… it turns out she'd made all of these wooden simpsons cutouts herself, from scratch, as a surprise for her son who was graduating from high school.'
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Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father’s view of God, faith - Los Angeles Times
'to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the four Gospels… and reassembled the excerpts into what he believed was a more coherent narrative'
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Birds from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Ustream.TV: Birds from Brazilian Atlantic Forest - Live feed
video feed of tanagers and suchlike at a Brazilian birdtable.
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Zombie Boy | Tattoos | Extreme | Skull Face | Montreal | Rick
'Rick is turning himself into a tattooed zombie. So, of course, we had to meet him.' via Metafilter, I think.
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What critics of critics of neo-creationists get wrong: a reply to Gordy Slack - The Panda’s Thumb
‘Here is a short list of things we have discovered or confirmed in the last 50 years or so about the origin of life. In my opinion all of these points have reached high enough confidence that they are [...]
The Royal Society - Article
Interesting. 'It is widely believed that Charles Darwin avoided publishing his theory of evolution for many years… This essay demonstrates that Darwin's delay is… overwhelmingly contradicted by the historical evidence.' via Carl Zimmer
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Should an atheist proselytize? « de-conversion
Interesting. 'These stories have shown that there are a number of ways of supporting Christians who make steps towards de-conversion, but in almost every single case it appears that the doubt that led to de-conversion came from within the individual.'
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Chronotopic Anamorphosis on Vimeo
via kottke, a neat video processing trick: 'The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time'
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BibliOdyssey: Metoposcopia
The use of forehead wrinkles for character analysis: fabulous illustrations from a C17th manuscript.
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Language Log » Stress in Supreme Court oral arguments
Interesting: 'We applied automated measurement techniques to recordings of 78 hours of oral arguments from the U.S. Supreme court, in order to look at the (average) effects on pitch and time of primary word stress, secondary stress, and lack of stress.'
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Boomshine
A gently addictive flash [...]
StrangeHarvest.com::Desktop Study: The Strange World of Sports Studio Design
'The BBCs Euro 2008 studio is a glass box overlooking the rooftops of Vienna… But it's the table that's of primary interest. It displays the unusual usual tropes of that tiny genre of design: football tournament desk design.'
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The Interview: 1916 | Shorpy :: History in HD
A fabulous picture at Shorpy: 'February 9, 1916. "Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making phonographic record at Smithsonian." The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.'
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1920s Black Americana Album - a set on Flickr
more old photos: 1920s [...]
1930s German Culture Magazines - a set on Flickr
A curious mixture of fashion shots and Naziana.
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1935 Berlin Vaudeville Album - a set on Flickr
'This set of 72 images is from an album of Vaudeville performers in Berlin, Germany from 1935 to 1936. A sweet little book about 5" X 8", [...]
What does a de-converted minister do with all their stuff? « de-conversion
A thoughtful and moving post over at de-conversion.
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Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium: Hidden Biology
particularly cool scorpion tattoo.
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APOD: 2008 June 5 - Spitzer’s Milky Way
'more than 800,000 frames of data from Spitzer's cameras have now been pieced together in an enormous mosaic of the galactic plane - the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy ever made.'
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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
via Daring Fireball, a [...]
Pool Game: 1924 | Shorpy :: History in HD
June 20, 1924. Washington, D.C. "Mah-Jongg at bathing beach." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
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What are some mindblowing scientific concepts? | Ask Metafilter
via somewhere: 'I'm looking for some scientific concepts that people who are stoned or drunk will find absolutely incredible. Something that will captivate their strange attention spans. Any thoughts?'
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Inner city snail - a slow-moving street art project
via Londonist: Art on snails.
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