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Day July 25, 2005

Panoramic Photographs (1851 – 1991)

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Click to see uncropped photo of Baltimore’s “Big Fire,” 1904.

Wow!

The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic format was at the height of its popularity.

The vastness of this is overwhelming. You can search by subject, place, or creator.
(via We Make Money Not Art)

The War on Terror

As viewed from the Bourne shell.

$ ls
bin
$ cd bin
$ ls
laden
$ cd ..
$ rm -r bin/laden
bin/laden: No such file or directory

(via Metafilter)

Picking Up Girls Made Easy

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Ahhhh so that’s how it’s done. (mp3 is NSFW)

This 40 minute album has eight actual recorded pick-up scenes to learn from. You’ll hear exactly how to pick up a busty college girl in a library, a tall pretty blond on the street, a dark-haired sexy swinger in a single’s bar.

Here is an excerpt from the album:

“Mike has completely disarmed her natural street defenses by complimenting her and then backing off pretending he’s not so interested. Now that they are having a drink, let’s see how he handles telling this luscious chick he’s really an insurance salesman.”

(via Alkaline Earth)

What’s a Reporter to Do?

Can we just give this reporter the Pulitzer now?

NEW YORK How do you report a story about a man who dies while having sex with a horse? With a snigger? Or straight?

Last Friday, the Seattle Times got wind of an Associated Press item about a local man who died after having sex with a horse. “The sheriff’s department didn’t expect us to report it because it was too gruesome,” said Jennifer Sullivan, the Seattle Times staff reporter who would eventually author two stories on the ordeal.

The AP story gave basic facts about the case. It mentioned that the man — who died of internal bleeding from anal sex with the animal — died after visiting a farm in nearby Enumclaw that attracted “a significant number of people” looking to engage in bestiality.

The Unabomber’s Manifesto

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The Unabomber’s manifesto, a 35,000-word treatise that strongly criticized modern technological advances and science, shed light on the terrorist’s motives and sparked a heated debate over ethics in journalism.

First word: Mention of the manuscript came in a letter from the bomber to The New York Times in April 1995 promising to stop mailing bombs if the manifesto would be published in the newspaper, TIME or Newsweek. The writer also demanded publication of several later installments.

Daily Dancer

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Dispelling the myth that white guys can’t dance.

I am Daily Dancer, a computer geek who loves to dance!
Every weekday morning, you can watch me dance to a different song.

(Thanks Radmila)

Age Maps

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Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together. In this fusion a jump-of-time is established at the tear.

Vanity Plates

I have gathered the following list of vanity plates from personal observations :) , people’s submissions, and also from postings in the usenet newsgroup. With minor exceptions, all of these plates are real, i.e., it’s on a car being driven by someone in the world. If you are interested in contributing your favorites to this list, please drop me a line!

Some examples:

DE SADE On a 77 Mercury Marquis

MEANMY …Shadow, Dodge Shadow that is (in St. Louis)

ROTFL :-D (only possible because : and – count as 1/2 space each.) It’s a NC plate — just got it this year! (oh, and it stands for the Internet acronym Rolling on the Floor Laughing — followed by a laughing smiley!)

Supercar

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The craziest brochure you’ve ever seen is ahead. It’s for the 1968 Mazda 110S, otherwise known as a Cosmo. It was picked up at the Toyo Kogyo factory by my father after a thorough tour of the Hiroshima plant.

(via Linkfilter)

How to Make a Board Game

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But if you want pieces for the game I guess you are on your own.


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