Comments on: Cabinet of Curiosities

Cabinet of Curiosities

verstegan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:40:11 -0800

Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features strange and surprising things from the rare book and manuscript collections of the Beinecke Library in Yale, including death masks, the philosophy of origami, the real adventures of Tintin, famous people and their pets, and American transvestite magazines from the 1960s.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:10:20 -0800

I want to live the real adventures of Tintin.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:13:43 -0800

I can't tell if that origami philosophy book is real¹, but it would be awesome. ¹What is the English version of this note: Translated into French, after the 1902 Spanish original in Unamuno's Amor y Pedagogia, a satirical novel on the excesses of positivism.

By: annaramma

annaramma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:17:41 -0800

I'm a sucker for famous people and their pets, but the Punch and Judy dolls and German Posters are nifty too.

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:16 -0800

Thanks a lot. Like I really need something else unproductive to do with my time. Damn you!

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:32:53 -0800

Links like this are why I still read Metafilter after all these years. Thanks so much for posting this.

By: jtron

jtron — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:54:38 -0800

This is great. According to my stepdad, Beinecke has an immense collection of rare and ancient pornography, rivaling only that of the Vatican.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:56:55 -0800

thanks very much -- best of the web, a real metafilter post, [this is good], all at one.....

By: jtron

jtron — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05:14 -0800

ooh, those playing card backs, properly rotated and color-corrected, are gonna make great backgrounds on my laptop.

By: scody

scody — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:48:21 -0800

I totally love the collection of oratorical gestures.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:53 -0800

This is great.

By: peacay

peacay — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:24:53 -0800

I've been following Room 26 since it started and they do post some great things. I do sometimes wish they would add a bit more background though. Something along the same lines which hasn't being going too long but is excellent is the blog from the Grahic Arts Division at Princeton University. It's one of the best cultural blogs to emerge in ages for mine.

By: jammy

jammy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:15:57 -0800

yet another smorgasbord of strangeness from my favorite foreign country so very excellent - thanks for this