via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
1865. Charleston, S.C.
“Broad Street, looking east with the ruins of Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar”
Aftermath of the Great Fire of 1861
Wet plate negative from the Civil War photographs collection, Library of Congress
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Seven insane ways tech will change news
via BBC News by Rory Cellan Jones, Technology Correspondent
The BBC, like many media organisations, is having a major head-scratching session about the whole future of news.
As part of this exercise, I’ve been asked to write about the way technology could change the news business over the next decade.
When I sat down to think about this, I realised that while there were bits of gadgetry that are changing the way we gather and distribute news, the primary challenge comes from new platforms and software.
And what is particularly scary for wizened veterans of the news business like me is the sudden appearance of the likes of Buzzfeed and Vice News, organisations which seem able to lure audiences into consuming serious news with gimmicks such as listicles and clickbait headlines.
Ah well, if you can’t beat them...
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
History of the gym
For men in ancient Greece, the gymnasium was a place to pursue physical and intellectual excellence. Also sex. Homosexuality shaped gym culture… more
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Thoughts in the necropolis
via OUP Blog by George Pattison
One of Glasgow’s best-known tourist highlights is its Victorian Necropolis, a dramatic complex of Victorian funerary sculpture in all its grandeur and variety. Christian and pagan symbols, obelisks, urns, broken columns and overgrown mortuary chapels in classical, Gothic, and Byzantine styles convey the hope that those who are buried there – the great and the good of 19th century Glasgow – will not be forgotten.
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What to do with my dead body
via 3 Quarks Daily by Charlie Huenemann
As I’m closer to death than birth, I think from time to time about what to do with my dead body. Of course, in the main I don’t really care. I’ll be done with it, and it will be nothing other than Other People’s Problem, in the deepest existential sense of those words. But sometimes I try to imagine what would be most meaningful to my surviving friends and family. For the most part, I come up empty.
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Imagining the anthropocene
More than a scientific concept, the Anthropocene is an all-encompassing idea fraught with political, ethical, and aesthetic implications… more
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Use a Treadmill Desk to Boost Memory, Attention
via Big Think by Natalie Shoemaker
Office work isn’t good for our health, sitting for long stretches of time is killing us all. Treadmill desks offer a unique solution to those of us who are desk-bound for the better part of the work week. But can we continue to work productively while we walk? Tom Jacobs from Pacific Standard writes on a research team, led by Elise Labonte-LeMoyne of HEC Montreal, that have found that we can.
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The 50 Funniest Cameos in Movie History
via Flavorwire by Jason Bailey
Oh for more time to spend choosing which clip to share with you here! I think, though, it has to be the Count Basie Orchestra on screen in the middle of nowhere in Blazing Saddles.
This week [probably early February 2015], Olive Films is releasing, for the first time on Blu-ray, The Road to Hong Kong, the last of the seven “Road” buddy comedies starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Hitting theaters a full decade after the penultimate entry, Hong Kong is an occasionally funny and occasionally wheezy bit of business, with one honest-to-God great sequence: an unbilled cameo by Peter Sellers, who strolls into the picture and steals the damn thing outright. Hope and Crosby were early adopters of the kind of inside-joke comedy that yielded such cameos, which became increasingly common in the years that followed; we’ve gathered up some of the funniest in movie history.
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Mary Norris, copy editor
Things that irk Mary Norris: poorly punctuated signs, the wrong sort of pencil, misused apostrophes, complaints about New Yorker style… more
Yet another book for my “to read sometime” list.
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Lynda Barry’s irresistible lesson plan for “drawing the unthinkable”
via Bong Boing Boing by Gareth Branwyn
Professor Lynda Barry has been on a roll of late. First, she published her astonishing and inspired writing-workshop-in-a-book, What It Is. She followed that up with Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book, which covered drawing in much the same way that What It Is approached writing. In Syllabus, Barry has published her actual hand-drawn lesson plans from her popular college class entitled “Drawing the Unthinkable.”
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