Ordinal's Cabinet of Ephemera
A selection of steampunk, Victoriana and Second Life news about which I do not really wish to write at length.
For longer nonsense, please see An Engine Fit For My Proceeding, and for shorter, see my Twitterings.
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Sneeze
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Dec 25
The Stroh Violin. “To overcome the lack of carrying power of string instruments, John M.A. Stroh introduced new “violins” like this one in England in the early 1900s. Stroh replaced the violin’s usual wooden body with a metal resonator to produce a louder, more penetrating sound.”
Dec 19
“ The Oxford English Dictionary has materteral and materterine, both derived from the Latin matertera (maternal aunt), and described as “humorously pedantic”; for “characterstic of an aunt”. There are two quotations : With maternal and materteral anxiety (1823) and A kindly materterine message (1874).
Dec 18
» Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Nearly 7000 digital recordings of original wax cylinders.
Dec 14
Dec 11
“ when someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
Dec 08
» Age-verification - a matter of informed choice - Massively
Very clear and complete summary of the issues, including a link to Aristotle’s privacy policy.