Don’t get upset if you happen to drop your $800 digital camera in a pond, just carefully dry it off and check out the instant-surrealist results! KPT never did anything like this.
Month: March 2002
The International Dada Archive
The International Dada Archive (damn, how cool is that?) has a big archive of early Dada pamphlets and zines. [via Bruce Sterling]
The Musee Mecanique
One of my fave things in San Francisco is the Musee Mecanique – a collection of early 1900’s coin-operated arcade machines, fortune tellers, and mechanical uncertainties.
Anyway, the Musee is located underneath the Cliff House tourist trap (itself a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area) – which has decided to expand downstairs and toss out the Musee. There’s an online petition up to save the Musee. I have my doubts that it’ll do any good, but grass roots support helped save the Giant Camera Obscura so who knows…
LA restaurant letter grades
I’m a big fan of the letter grading system that the Los Angeles County Department of Health uses for grading the cleanliness of LA-area restaurants (as usual, Orange County is too chicken to institute a similar system). Anyhow, the LA DoH publishes their closure list up on the web.
[via RRE]
The Unfathomed Spider
The Unfathomed Spider
“When you see a cloud formation, it means that the squid meditates. A table beams with wisely ancestral power, or a frightening blackness bartered the servant from the ring in exchange for a mortician over some township. An ooze completely pierced the black, beating heart of the insanity… A cyclopian polygon draws itself up, because the wisely smelly particle placed the sacred mark of Cthulhu upon the false stone.”
Courtesy of the Random H.P. Lovecraft Story Generator
K. Gordon Murray
“How far, can the human mind penetrate the mysteries of the great beyond? Who Knows? This picture, is based upon an extraordinary experiment, carried out by Doctors Hughes and Tooney of the University of Los Angeles. There is no doubt as to its authenticity; testimony of people participating in the experiment, sworn to by a notary public, preclude the possibility of any fraud! This picture is a combination of factual data, mixed with fiction.” — From The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
A mad scientist creates a robot (armed with radium no less!) to steal treasure guarded by a centuries-old mummy. Folks, thank producer/distributor K. Gordon Murray for this and 65 other horror/exploitation movies – mostly imported from Mexico. MST3K fans might recognize him as the US “producer” of Santa Claus
[via gmtPlus9]
Tim O’Reilly on Dune
Tim O’Reilly on Dune. Tim “World’s Greatest Technical Books” O’Reilly’s first publishing venture was a bio of Frank “Dune” Herbert (which text is now available for free under an open content license). In this week’s “Ask Tim” feature, Tim handles sticky questions about Herbert’s intention with Dune. [via bOing bOing]
Workplace
Workplace is a journal about labor and workplace issues in academia.