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Entries from January 2008

Another shot from the Library of Congress

January 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

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A carpenter at the TVA’s new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tennessee.
This photograph is gorgeous. He’s wearing the type of skull bucket that I want to create as the iconographic style for Moxy […]

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All that I have are these, to remember you.

January 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

If like me, you get a kick out of old photography and ephemera—the thrill of looking through a window into the not-so-distant past—then you’ll share my excitement about the American Library of Congress/Flickr pilot project.
To set the scene, the Library of Congress is the national library of the United States, located in Washington, D.C.; […]

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Storming Normandy, on a budget.

January 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Via drawn.ca

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On the road again.

January 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Murph asked for it - here it is. The best story about Bolivia’s Road of Death is the BBC’s.
There’s a mountain-biker’s tragic account and Dark Roasted Blend has a great series of images, as well.
But the best video of driving a mountain road is Top Gear’s below. Take a Gravol, an enjoy.

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Is he or isn’t he? Only his ghostwriter know for sure.

January 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Brogue Craic, Politics, Uncategorized

One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most about this theatre-of-the-absurd American Primary season is following some of the marginal candidates.
Some of you may have even seen the original post I made about how much I liked Ron Paul, updated with a retraction some time ago when I learned about a newsletter published under […]

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