"This week, we discovered an utterly charming card used by Isaac Asimov ('natural resource' is right) and, inspired, began hunting for more
famous peoples' business cards, whether boilerplate or highly designed, staid or comical."
posted by gilrain
on Jan 22, 2013 -
92 comments
Flash cards are an effective study aid because they are founded on the principles of rote and memorization. With
Flashcard Exchange |
Study Stack and
Flashcard Machine, you can use web-based flashcard makers to create, share, export and print flashcards to assist your studying.
posted by netbros
on Oct 28, 2012 -
26 comments
The Man Who Broke Atlantic City Don Johnson (no, not that one) won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how he did it.
posted by modernnomad
on Mar 14, 2012 -
98 comments
The Berglas Effect aka The Holy Grail of Card Magic or Any Card at Any Number (ACAAN) and named after its inventor David Berglas is a very simple magic card trick that Berglas claims only two people know.
[more inside]
posted by Mitheral
on Aug 20, 2011 -
107 comments
Ricky Jay had a TV special in 1989 -
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women - based on the
book of the same name, which featured magic, juggling, amazing feats, stunts, and performances, including a musical performance on wine glasses, a human calculator who could determine cube-routes of numbers in her head, and an antique acrobatic clockwork doll. (
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3).
(Previously and previously and previouslier)
posted by twoleftfeet
on Jul 29, 2010 -
18 comments
"
QSL cards confirm either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station. They can also confirm the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party listener. A typical QSL card is the same size and made from the same material as a typical postcard, and most are sent through the mail as such."
Here's a substantial collection of them.
posted by dersins
on Oct 7, 2009 -
43 comments
Tart cards [NSFW] are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.... [Wallpaper Magazine] asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every typeface and create their own graphic numbers.... all 450 cards can be viewed
here.
[NSFW] [more inside]
posted by carsonb
on Jun 26, 2009 -
39 comments
NetClassixFilter: The next time you're standing clueless in the greeting cards section of your local drugstore franchise, you'll be wishing you'd visited the
Gallery of Unfortunate Greeting Cards instead. For all your holiday needs:
Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Weddings, 4th of July, Hallowe'
en, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and of course,
Washington's Birthday. [via Cap'n Wacky] [more inside]
posted by not_on_display
on Jun 9, 2008 -
18 comments
Playing cards and tarot cards. An amazing resource about cards with
hundreds of scanned decks, and an
illustrated timeline of cards through the ages. Cards started in China, but the link to the West was the
gorgeous decks of the Marmeluks [Coral cache],which used 52 cards (though the suites were polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups), from there, they
spread to Europe and evolved into the tarot and playing cards. Through their history, cards remained art there are many
beautiful decks in the past, and 20th century artists like Dali and Hockney
created their own decks [coral cache].
posted by blahblahblah
on Aug 24, 2006 -
14 comments
Ganjifa cards have a
history of more than 300 years. A pack of ganjifa cards consists of ninety-six cards; they are
generally circular and made of ivory, tortoise shell, thin wood or hard board material. Dancing, hunting, worshipping, and processions are some of the
subjects painted on the cards. Some more patterns:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5. However, Ganjifa today is a
craft in a
crisis.
posted by dhruva
on Jun 2, 2006 -
10 comments
