Ordinal's Cabinet of Ephemera

"Endorsement for resident help groups is an effort to allow good-standing resident-run resident help..."

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:31:25 +0100

“Endorsement for resident help groups is an effort to allow good-standing resident-run resident help groups within Second Life to become endorsed by Linden Lab and be a part of the Resident Help Network. Groups with emphasis on helping new or experienced residents with Second Life related learning or immersion without charge are eligible. The desired outcome of the Resident Help Network is to stretch the boundaries of group efforts by uniting and collaborating in a network. For more details, see below!”

- Introduction to Endorsed Resident Help Groups - Second Life Wiki

he's a cold-hearted snake, look into his eyes (disgraceful Desmond Shang SL5B antics)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:11:59 +0100

he's a cold-hearted snake, look into his eyes (disgraceful Desmond Shang SL5B antics)

"Shoshana Epsilon’s latest post backs up this account, and further reveals that Dusty Linden is..."

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:22:00 +0100

“Shoshana Epsilon’s latest post backs up this account, and further reveals that Dusty Linden is attempting to block any image with a child and adult in the same picture, or any image of a child on or near a bed — even completely nonsexual, family-oriented pictures. Shoshana describes it as a blanket policy (no pun intended), not a case-by-case review to screen out images which are or could be construed as erotic images of children (or child-like avatars).”

- Jacek Lives » Blog Archive » The Meddling Eye-in-Hand (via Massively)

"In the 1930s, after his historic flight over the Atlantic, Lindbergh hooked up with Alexis Carrel, a..."

Mon, 26 May 2008 12:44:28 +0100

“In the 1930s, after his historic flight over the Atlantic, Lindbergh hooked up with Alexis Carrel, a brilliant surgeon born in France but who worked in a laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. Carrel - who was a mystic as well as a scientist - had already won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on the transplantation of blood vessels. But his real dream was a future in which the human body would become, in Friedman’s words, “a machine with constantly reparable or replaceable parts”.
This is where Lindbergh entered the frame. Carrel hoped that his own scientific nous combined with Lindbergh’s machine-making proficiency (Lindbergh had, after all, already built a plane that flew non-stop to Paris) would make his fantasy about immortal machine-enabled human beings a reality.”

- BBC NEWS | Magazine | Lindbergh’s deranged quest for immortality

"Given pride of place in an unassuming museum on the East Coast of America is a pair of 200-year-old..."

Mon, 26 May 2008 12:19:06 +0100

“

Given pride of place in an unassuming museum on the East Coast of America is a pair of 200-year-old duelling pistols shrouded in mystery.

The intricately decorated guns were said to have been forged from the iron of a fallen meteorite.

They were a unique gift from the commander of a South American region, which would later become Argentina, to the fourth US president, James Madison.

”

- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Science probe for ‘space pistols’

vintage ephemera - a set on Flickr

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:54:22 +0100

vintage ephemera - a set on Flickr

Armour and top hat (via peacay)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:29:56 +0000

Armour and top hat (via peacay)

Sneeze

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:35:04 +0000

Sneeze

halloweenesque octopus (via peacay)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:39:09 +0000

halloweenesque octopus (via peacay)

Warren Ellis » FIXED

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:15:08 +0000

Warren Ellis » FIXED

BibliOdyssey: Geomancy Almanac

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:26:14 +0000

BibliOdyssey: Geomancy Almanac

Victorian gloves with map of London - Boing Boing

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:36:07 +0000

Victorian gloves with map of London - Boing Boing

The Stroh Violin. “To overcome the lack of carrying power...

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:38:56 +0000

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.”

"The Oxford English Dictionary has materteral and materterine, both derived from the Latin matertera..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:04:02 +0000

“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).”

- FunTrivia Community Forums: Avuncular

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Lost world wildlife

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:04:15 +0000

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Lost world wildlife

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:31:17 +0000

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: Nearly 7000 digital recordings of original wax cylinders.

English Knife & Fork Pistol by Linsley Brothers, Leeds -...

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:11:15 +0000

English Knife & Fork Pistol by Linsley Brothers, Leeds - HLEBOOKS.com

"when someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to..."

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:18 +0000

““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.””

- Jeff Bezos, quoted in “Cory Doctorow: How comes Amazon gets it wrong on digital? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited”

Somehow disturbingly Torley-threatening artwork

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:08:33 +0000

Somehow disturbingly Torley-threatening artwork

Age-verification - a matter of informed choice - Massively

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:22:02 +0000

Age-verification - a matter of informed choice - Massively: Very clear and complete summary of the issues, including a link to Aristotle’s privacy policy.