Structural Archaeology Geoff Carter's radical view of building in the ancient world, especially the archaeology of the lost timber built environment of Southern England. It is new research into of prehistory of architecture
With the ultimate conclusion that Stonehenge is the remains of a roofed shelter.
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posted by Mitheral
on May 19, 2013 -
76 comments
Post & Prejudice: [guardian.co.uk] "The Royal Mail is joining in the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice with the release of a series of stamps featuring all six of Jane Austen's novels. Royal Mail commissioned the artwork by Angela Barrett."
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posted by Fizz
on Feb 24, 2013 -
13 comments
The
results of the
2012 Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest are in. The winner:
Occupeep DC. Runners up:
Peepius Maximus,
What People Think Peeps Are (based on the popular
meme),
The Black Peep (based off of DC's
Black Cat music venue), and
Just Peeped (based off of the
2011 British Royal Wedding). In addition to the
finalists, check out
Peeps in Washington,
Political Peeps, the
full gallery of submissions that the Post received this year, and the winners from
2011,
2010,
2009,
2008, and
2007. (
Peepiously,
peepiouslier,
peepiousliest)
posted by schmod
on Mar 29, 2012 -
19 comments
A Month of Letters is a challenge with two parts: mail something (anything!) every day the post runs in February and respond to every letter you get.
posted by naturalog
on Feb 1, 2012 -
23 comments
Post A Letter Social Activity Club: "Imagine a day when every personal e-mail you receive is in the form of a piece of mail, in envelopes of different sizes, papers of different colours and textures, handwriting of varying degrees of legibility. Wouldn’t that be pretty nice for a change?"
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posted by Fizz
on Aug 22, 2011 -
18 comments
"What would be it like to go a day without spending any money? I've thought about this before but I've never considered actually trying it. I couldn't imagine going a day without spending a single penny -- is that even possible? How would I get from A to B? What about food? Turns out, a day of living expense free is possible and you'd be surprised by the overwhelming sense of satisfaction and feeling of elation that comes from it. "
The Huffington Post's Alexa van Tobel tells the astonishing and empowering tale of
How I Went 24 Hours Without Spending Any Money...In New York City.
Unfortunately, "this experiment is unsustainable for a long period of time."
posted by Legomancer
on May 8, 2010 -
158 comments
Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test - "To put them to the test, Harriet Russell concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. Among the disguises she employed were dot-to-dot drawings, anagrams and cartoons. The answer, it seems, was very far indeed. Amazingly, only 10 failed to complete their journey back to her." Be sure to click the "more pictures" link to the right for more samples.
Via one.point.zero.
posted by nthdegx
on Oct 9, 2008 -
56 comments
Corrupt U.S. Government officials
leased the Teapot Dome oil field to one Harry F. Sinclair in 1922 in a sleazy no-bid contract.
Turn back the clock. 27 years earlier,
suspected grifter Gilmer Bonfils had seized control of the Denver Post; he and his family turned it from a sleepy, staid paper into a
wild, brazen broadsheet. So brazen they were
shot by a furious lawyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal—a good deal of it true — that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal."
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posted by felix
on Aug 13, 2008 -
33 comments
Citizen K Street: How Lobbying Became Washington's Biggest Business The story will begin in the newspaper and on the Web on March 4, with an overview of Cassidy's career. Then, beginning March 5 and running Monday through Friday for five weeks exclusively at washingtonpost.com/citizenkstreet, Kaiser will tell the story in a serial narrative that will chart Cassidy's path and the transformation of the lobbying industry in Washington.
posted by srboisvert
on Apr 8, 2007 -
5 comments
Camille Paglia How should the humanities be taught, and how should scholars in the humanities be trained? These pivotal questions confront universities today amid signs of spreading agreement that the three-decade era of poststructuralism and postmodernism is over.
posted by vronsky
on Apr 29, 2006 -
72 comments
The Last Post, a military bugle call marking the end of the day, was originally
sounded to call off-duty soldiers to barracks; later it was also
incorporated into British and Commonwealth military funeral services (analogous to the playing of
Taps for
US military dead) and "symbolises that the duty of the dead is over and that they can
rest in peace." It's perhaps as fitting as "Auld Lang Syne" at the close of year 2005.
posted by orthogonality
on Dec 31, 2005 -
16 comments
Michael Homan rode out Katrina in New Orleans and later "escaped" one of the freeway-based collection points. His is the first of what will surely be many firsthand accounts appearing on blogs. Why not collect your link finds here?
posted by mwhybark
on Sep 5, 2005 -
29 comments
Got a Secret? (Discussed briefly previously
here)
The idea behind Frank Warren Artomatic exhibit was simple: distribute 3,000 post cards asking the public to share a secret with him anonymously by reply mail, and sit back and wait for the replies. Some of the post cards are
now on display at the Anne C. Fisher gallery, but if you can't make it to the Georgetown show don't worry, Warren has created a
"Postsecret" blog where you can see some of the most interesting replies. (via
DCist)
posted by indiebass
on Jan 27, 2005 -
13 comments
Portable Zip Codes "Every year millions of Americans are on the go: People who must relocate for work or other reasons. Those people may have been quite attached to their original homes or an adopted town or city of residence. For them this innovative measure will serve as an umbilical cord to the place they love best."
posted by cmicali
on Apr 2, 2004 -
13 comments
How To Be A Jug or String Band MVP - starting with guitar: It's all in
tablature, by the way, something easy enough to understand. Three finger fingerpicking guitar is easy to learn--start with
Mississippi John Hurt:
Payday was the first song I ever learned. Of course, it's a cinch, being in Open D--but
open tunings are a cinch, too. With open tunings, how about learning some
slide guitar? Beyond John Hurt, slide or not, open or standard, , there are the ever expanding
Fahey Tablatures at John Fahey.com, where Melissa keeps the flame burning ever brightly.
There's Much More Within...
posted by y2karl
on Sep 5, 2003 -
17 comments
Postal ID Plan A government report urges the U.S. Postal Service to create "smart stamps" to track the identity of people who send mail.
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posted by Irontom
on Aug 13, 2003 -
20 comments
Here's a piece from NPR for all those people who, even during these crazy times, have a love of getting/receiving mail (need Real Player to hear)...
posted by Miyagi
on Nov 23, 2001 -
2 comments
