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Meghan McCain's blog.
Just another political blog, by another candidate's daughter. O! what the internet has wrought.
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at 10:31 AM on February 13, 2008
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"In 1968, I received an invitation to the hundred-mile run at Walton-on-Thames, England, scheduled for October 1969.
I pulled out all the stops for this one, running every marathon possible and enduring unheard-of training mileage when not racing.
In July alone I ran a thousand miles, two hundred short of my goal[...]My only goal was to break the existing American record of 16:07:43." (Which he did, finishing in 13:33; still the U.S. 45 to 49 100-mile record.) Ted Corbitt, Olympian, American Record holder at 100 miles, died yesterday.
NYT obit.
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at 11:37 AM on December 13, 2007
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"Open Vault
provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools." (Requires QuickTime)
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at 8:03 AM on December 6, 2007
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Let's build...
Blarney Castle, a
model building to test on an earthquake simulator, Thoreau's
cabin, a
stirling engine, the
NYC transit system, a
model bridge,
Galileo spacecraft, the
Mars Polar Lander, a flying
Martin XB-51,
Aliens universe papercraft, a
train layout under your bed, a
stereoscope, a
flying saucer. Or we could let The Swell Maps do it:
Let's Build a Car. And don't forget, "
Your country needs scale model planes for the emergency."
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at 1:25 PM on March 20, 2007
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The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University
has a great
collection of folk arts. The strongest section is in
ceramics, with stupendous representation from the NC wood-fired, salt and alkaline glazed traditions. There's this
1868 Hartsoe Alkaline glazed jug, this
19th cent. jug with kild-drip, this
Hancock Half-Gallon jug, this
Randolph Cty salt-glazed jug with ashy shoulder, and then the moderns:
Burlon Craig,
Vernon Owen,
Mark Hewitt. There are also
great photographs, weird
furniture, outsider
critters, and
more.
There isn't a good browse function, so you need some idea of what you want to search for.
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at 9:22 AM on March 15, 2007
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Thomas Pynchon Paper Dolls
Something light because, yes, it's the run-up to the November 21st release of Against the Day, the new 1000 page doorstop from Thomas Pynchon.
The Modern Word is using the time to update their already vast Pynchon site. Good luck. (A whole lot of other paper dolls
previously.)
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at 8:26 AM on October 27, 2006
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McKinley Assassination Ink:
"The goal [...]: to gather the largest possible selection of full-text primary source documents relating to the assassination of William McKinley and the immediate aftermath of that event, including the succession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and the incarceration, trial, and execution of [anarchist] assassin Leon Czolgosz."
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at 10:11 AM on August 18, 2006
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London's 'flushers':
"If you really thought about where you were going and what you were doing you'd either be shit scared or you wouldn't go there. We're shit shovellers. Some of the jobs I do a high percentage of the country would turn around and say: 'Poke that up yer arse mate as far as you can put it.'" The history of
London's sewers. The craptacular
sewerhistory.org. More entries in the
Night Haunts series.
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at 9:01 AM on July 13, 2006
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I am still alive.
Japanese conceptual artist
On Kawara sent these
telegrams to friends throughout the 70s. He's most famous for his
date paintings, in which he paints the
day's date on canvas before
midnight. His book series
I Met is a 12 volume list of the people he met in the '60s and '70s. His ten volume
One Million Years (Past and Future) comprises books with every one of 1,000,000 years (998,031 BC-1969 AD (past) and 1980-1,001,980 AD (future) listed.
Reading One Million Years is a series of installations of readings from the books. One was placed in Trafalgar Square, and in a further wrinkle in time,
this guy caught it with his pinhole camera. Here is a
short essay about Kawara's existentialism, and here's a longer essay (
Google cache) about Kawara's art's ontology. (
PDF)
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at 11:55 AM on April 10, 2006
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A collection of bird skeletons (with 3d rotating skeleton goodness).
The site also has tips on
cleaning your own, and
identifying those you might, uh, stumble across. Comparative pictures and anatomy of
orangutan, chimp, marmoset, and lemur skeletons.
Will's Skull Site, with close to 100 skulls and details (
Cougar!). The California Academy of Sciences
site on skulls, including this cool
animal-to-skull match tool.
Skeleton specimen tutorials from the Vetrinary Museum. The
Human Osteology pages. A
x-ray anatomy of the human skeleton. The
Human Skull module at CalState Chico.
And, you know, dragon physiology. And previously, the skeletal systems of cartoon characters.
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at 6:48 AM on March 29, 2006
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Owls are rad.
Sometimes they look kind of
metallic and scary, sometimes
wise, sometimes
puzzled, and sometimes like
skulls, (
Index); sometimes they
sound like dogs or pigs, sometimes they
sound like a little train, sometimes they
sound alarmed, (
Index of MP3s); sometimes you come across an
extensive gallery of Central and North American owls with
pictures,
ranges,
video, and even a description of
the '04-'05 Northern Owl Invasion; sometimes it's a
dynamic range map of Owls of the Western Hemisphere; sometimes it's the
OwlCam homepage with
downloadable owl movies, sometimes it's a
series of articles on all things owl; sometimes at
BiologyBase it's a printable
owl sighting lifelist, sometimes it's
Ruru, the morepork, New Zealand's native owl at
NZBirds. Or,
w0t! w0t!, it's
attracting barn owls and
building nest boxes at World Owl Trust.
Previous MeFi birding FPP.
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at 6:27 AM on March 28, 2006
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I'm no dancer, but I'm fascinated by the
Dance History Archives. The
index of dance styles is comprehensive, and the individual entries provide everything from history to related music links. (
Jitterbug,
May Pole,
The Watusi) There's a short
glossary, an
index of dancers, a voluptuous section on
burlesque (including some
great NSFW
pictures), an archive of
posters (
Josephine Baker!), and so much
more. The list of
Dancer Related Celebrities is pretty extensive (
Fred Astaire,
Rita Hayworth), although there's no
Jennifer Grey, so I guess Baby got put in a corner after all.
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at 6:46 AM on February 24, 2006
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