home taping is killing record industry profits: the 1981 moral panic over mixtapes
lisa lionheart: labour force participation through the many careers of Barbie
swipe left: patrons of 1920s Berlin nightclubs could flirt via pneumatic tubes—via Messy Nessy Chic
the rivers and harbours act: Texas Department of Justice sues governor for refusing to remove a stretch of buoys that violates federal and international law—see previously
sickbay: the Pirate Surgeon’s Journals—via Strange Company
comeuppance: it’s time for the annual census on the River Thames—see previously
a lot of skill, hand-eye coordination—it’s cheap and legal: video arcade addiction was seen as a threat to prevailing social values in 1982
synchronoptica
one year ago: Ullapool and environs plus Wester Ross
two years ago: a colour advertisement on black-and-white TV (1967), Einstein on the Beach (1976), Thomas à Kempis plus a mosaic along the Thames
three years ago: Trump’s mental fitness, proto-Wikipedia (2000), more on the US Space Force, St Cucuphas, Nixon in China vis-à-vis today’s relations plus more on stock characters and archetypes
four years ago: RIP Rutger Hauer plus a doctored presidential seal
five years ago: a neo-classic Delphic festival (1927), a student project that may have unwittingly identified targets of value in the Gulf War, anti-social media, Mid-Century Modern minimalism plus the hunt for subsurface water on Mars
