27.5.04
...it was the Etruscans, not the Romans, who invented Roman numerals...
LMBoyd
26.5.04
Bulgarian
mask
dancing
Vassil Donev
Pictures from Bulgaria
Europa Audiovisual Library
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Sedyanka
A Spell In Time
25.5.04
Interior view of one of the five circular buildings of individual cells in a Cuban prison.
Women Prisoners Dancing Around May Pole (West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls, 1938)
The American Prison Society Photographic Archive
Eastern Kentucky University Archives
Ione, California
"His father had marked his abilities and expected them to raise him to the woolsack."
He was overfond, also, of introducing new words into the language; and few of his inventions have had the success of the term "international," which was used for the first time in the preface to his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.Bentham and the Early Utilitarians
...natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts.Natural Rights
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Bartleby
24.5.04
Brodsky links at :::wood s lot:::
The Invisible Children
Kathy Wyatt
at AOI
illustration for the book by Gitta Serenya
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link path Fortean Times
illustration Trots in Space
Kid Spaniard
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Gitta Sereny vs. David Irving
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Child Prostitution and Sex Rings
Irving Studios
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Alison Arngrim on Larry King Live
link Andrew Vachss
23.5.04
Until Sadie Plant's talk at Futuresonic, I'd missed one of the most socially significant aspects of mobile phones: that they have a functional bias against the expansion of social networks, and thus a bias towards intimacy. Phone books exist for landlines, and most email addresses are available publicly somewhere. But there is no public way of getting a cell phone number. Hence cell phones become like comfort blankets to people partly because they represent everyone who you already know reasonably well.link path > iSociety
Will Davies May.23.04
WorkFoundation
Ideas Bazaar
Space and Culture
the fortified place where the plum trees grow
The English word "welsh" was the Old English word for "foreigner" or "outsider". It was, at the time, a very insulting term to use. It survives in place names with a wal- element, such as Walcot ("the cottage of the foreigners") ... Some Latin-sounding name elements were adopted by the Anglo Saxons, after Roman occupation, because they needed words to describe things they found in the British landscape that they had no word of their own for ... In south Wiltshire there's a concentration of -font suffixes (Urchfont, Teffont, etc). We think these were Anglo Saxon attempts to use the Latin word fontana to explain Roman water features, like irrigation systems and aquaducts.link Space and Culture May.23.04
(hurriedly typed and edited) notes from a talk in the public library last night, on the subject of Wiltshire's place names
Giles Turnbull
21.5.04
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"... air that laughs..."
Wislawa Szymborska
Literature of Poverty
PovertyNet Home
World Bank Group
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All favela links space and culture
Tio Souza says that living in legitimate—if crumbling (the water system for his apartment block hasn’t worked for twenty years)—housing is an improvement over the favelas: "[In Padre Miguel] we have rights—we are real people."
Favela Faces
the stories behind the faces of four people living in or around the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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