I remember this character’s misadventures and continuous strolls watching Pinwheel on Nickelodeon in its earliest days—when the network shared the same channel as A&E (Arts and Entertainment), which would begin broadcasting in the evenings, but I didn’t know the name of the series until I stumbled across this brilliant little tribute from Laughing Squid.
Tuesday 17 March 2015
mister linea
Monday 16 March 2015
five-by-five
dingoes ate the baby: the fingerprints of koala bears and humans beings can superficially appear identical and have led to forensic confusion
les cahiers: writer Andrรฉ Gide’s rich daily journaling routine offers some very wise and abiding reflections on sincerity and originality
fantascope: collector Richard Balzer, avid accumulator of Magic Lanterns, has a nice show-and-tell about these forerunners to film and video
johnny highwaycone: pioneer of the American transportation system
let me see you shake your tail-feathers: peacocks’ plumage make sub-sonic sounds
les cahiers: writer Andrรฉ Gide’s rich daily journaling routine offers some very wise and abiding reflections on sincerity and originality
fantascope: collector Richard Balzer, avid accumulator of Magic Lanterns, has a nice show-and-tell about these forerunners to film and video
johnny highwaycone: pioneer of the American transportation system
let me see you shake your tail-feathers: peacocks’ plumage make sub-sonic sounds
catagories: ๐, ๐, ๐, antiques, environment
high-fructose or beet, beet, sugar beet
Just as I was under the mistaken impression that coffee cultivation and consumption for Europe was a New World discovery, I was sure that the same was true about sugar—thinking of the cane-breaks of Caribbean islands and sprawling plantations.
The confection’s introduction to Europe, like many other commodities, however, experienced centuries of delay, with not all Western palettes ready to taste this exotic import, along with the range of culinary spices that the Crusaders adopted when they went more or less native. Europeans were altogether repulsed by some of the indulgent habits that generational pilgrims had adopted—like regular bathing, and the public was not sold of sugar, as with coffee, tea, cotton, said-spices and tobacco—until colonialism necessitated markets and consumers needed to be conjured up. As somewhat of a coda to the spice wars of the Far East traders, France was willing to drop its claim to Canada in exchange for keeping its Caribbean cane-growing islands, and the Dutch relinquished their title to Old New York (then Nieue Amsterdam) once it was decided they could retain its plantations in South American Suriname.
whetstone or rolling-stock
The incomparable BLDGBlog has a feature called “Intermediate Geologies,” where artists have reversed engineered an ore, a nugget out of discarded circuit boards and other electronic detritus. Of course, whether as accoutrements or artefacts, the metallurgical composition was always present, but it is an interesting demonstration of another, less invasive approach to mining and the importance of scrap and salvage. The author speculates that, like burning the midnight oil in an attempt to outwit a Rumpelstiltskin and to eke out a bit of pocket-change—real work versus rather than a proof-of-work incentive scheme, people might keep the equivalent of rock-tumblers churning for extended periods, panning for gold.
catagories: ♻️, technology and innovation