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Violence Inherent in the System

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Violence Inherent in the System, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

The PMRC and their allies should have expanded their censorship reach to include art museums and biblical texts too. Or not.

[ recap: www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zzcens97.htm ]

Details of the painting;
www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16169

Tipper Gore needed a better hobby: her anti-free speech fulminations tainted her husband in my eyes, and many others.

Would Al Gore have won in 2000 if Tipper Gore had kept her opinions to herself? Who knows, the question is moot, but I wonder…

Waiting for Baggage -TRI-X 400

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Waiting for Baggage -TRI-X 400, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

O’Hare.

The dude stormed off cursing when his bag turned up lost.

Our luggage was delayed too. At first, the American Airline agent said our bag was on the flight that left immediately after ours, and thus our miscreant bag would arrive in a few moments. After filling out some paperwork, decided to wait the few moments.

In actuality, the baggage carousel was just frozen and inoperable. They fixed it, and the last suitcase was the first one out of the door.

Might have been due to the TSA inspecting it (there was one of those “Notice of Baggage Inspection” notes in both of my suitcases – the suitcase with my clothes, and the delayed suitcase with mostly all business related papers).

This angry man in the photo didn’t wait for his bag though, just stormed off cursing at the incompetence of American Airlines.

Argon

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Argon, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

somewhere near Belmont Harbor

Did you know:
The Hebrew word for "life" is חי (chai), which has a numerical value of 18. Consequently, the custom has arisen in Jewish circles to give donations and monetary gifts in multiples of 18 as an expression of blessing for long life

or:
In Chinese tradition, the number 18, normally 十八 (shí bā), can also be read as 幺八 (yāo bā), which sounds like 要发 (yào fā), meaning that one is going to prosper. Thus, building floors numbered "18" are often very expensive in China

both stolen from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(number)

The Commons

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I had heard of the Flickr project of “no known copyright” historic photographs, but for some reason had never really spent much time exploring The Commons.

Though less than a year old, The Commons hosts tens of thousands of copyright-free historical photos from 17 cultural institutions including the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.
Included in The Commons so far: Southworth and Hawes 19th century daguerreotypes from the George Eastman House collection, William Goodyear’s photos of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (from the Brooklyn Museum), and Frank Hurley’s photo prints from the 1911-1914 Austalasian Antarctic Expedition from the State Library of New South Wales.

Dedicated Flickr users act like amateur historians in The Commons, tagging, researching and analyzing the worlds’ visual heritage. Thus, 67,176 tags were added by 2,518 unique Flickr users, and info on more than 500 photos has been verified by the Library of Congress and moved into the library’s permanent records.

[From With Flickr Layoffs, Whither ‘The Commons’? | Epicenter from Wired.com]

Well, if you can access Flickr (sorry, Aunt P), you should definitely check out The Commons. So freaking cool! There’s also a separate group dedicated to The Commons.