A bone ring is forever. Why isn’t DeBeers all over this?
Using Laboratory Grown Human Bone Tissue as a material for Design.
Day: January 3, 2005
Puppet Tool
Dracula, The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Most people probably are aware that the fictional Dracula was modeled after Vlad The Impaler from Romania but this has a nice brief history of Vlad that might fill in some of the gaps.
At Castle Dracula he was faced with overwhelming odds, his army having melted away. He chose to survive by escaping through a secret tunnel and then over the Carpathians into Transylvania. His wife according to local legend, committed suicide before the Turks overran the castle. In Transylvania he presented himself to the new king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, who arrested him. At this time the first publications of stories of Vlad’s cruelties were circulating through Europe. Vlad was imprisoned at the Hungarian capital, by 1475 events had shifted to the point that he emerged as the best candidate to retake the Wallachian throne. In the summer of 1475 he was again recognized as the prince of Wallachia. His end came at the hand of an assassin at some point toward the end of December 1476 or early January 1477.
ASCII Generator
Just about in any style you can think of.
A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E”
Except for the author’s name.
THE ENTIRE MANUSCRIPT of this story was written with the E type-bar of the typewriter tied down; thus making it impossible for that letter to be printed. This was done so that none of that vowel might slip in, accidentally; and many did try to do so!
(via Presurfer)
Female Mugshots from the 1940s
Another great post by Swapatorium. I really wish they had an rss feed.
The Boston Trial of “Naked Lunch”
This is an interesting read that centers around Norman Mailer’s and Allen Ginsburg’s testimony. The fact that there was a trial about whether this could be published in the US turns my stomach.
Boston, Mass., once the scene of such famous censorship trials as those involving Forever Amber, God’s Little Acre, and, more recently, Tropic of Cancer, again attracted a distinguished gathering of literary luminaries on January 12, 1965, when “A Book Named Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs” found itself the defendant in Boston Superior Court before Judge J. Hudson. 1The witnesses who testified on behalf of Naked Lunch included Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ciardi, Paul Hollander, Gabriele B. Jackson, Norman Holland, Stanley E. Eldred, John B. Sturrock, and Thomas H. Jackson. The attorney appearing in behalf of the book and its publisher, Grove Press, Inc., was Edward de Grazia, assisted by Daniel Klubock. As we go to press the court has still to hand down its decision. What follows are excerpts from the testimony of Mr. Mailer and Mr. Ginsberg, concluded by a statement from Mr. de GRAZIA.