December 2009
111 posts
The Dollar Dreadful Family Library →
(via libraryland) Very cool, very strange — just what I like.
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers →
ihatethismess:
A newly disclosed Microsoft patent application — Avatar Individualized by Physical Characteristic — takes aim at fat people, proposing to generate fat avatars in gaming environments for individuals whose health records indicate they’re overweight, limiting their game play, and even banning them. From the patent application: ‘An undesirable body weight could be reflected in an…
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
– [And oh, isn’t that the worst of it?] — Charlie Chaplin (via whokilled) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“A friend of mine in New York City has a half-fare transit card, which means that...”
– Why We Fight (1988) | Vito Russo
via clingtomymouth:bonesarecoralmade:wordsandsteel (via sexartandpolitics)
“If you go home with someone and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.”
– John Waters (via reinsangeki) (via leftunderbooks)
“Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean...”
– Dorothy Allison (via iwannotowidigdo)
animated history of the nyc subway →
iwannotowidigdo:
gpm5000:
“M. But, uncle William, the man might have been killed in building a house or a...”
– From Are You Going to the Circus?, from the 1850s, archived at the Library of Congress collection.
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Audio Interviews →
Fascinating collection held at the Library of Congress. It’s worth noting, as with any interview work, that the interviewer’s appearance and attitude no doubt affected the interview’s content; that, however, speaks even more to the situation created by slavery in America.
“As they stepped into the large, gray military cargo plane, their eyes widened...”
– Defense.gov News Article: Air Force Helps Bring Smiles to Iraqi Children
This is from 2006, but, over three years later, it still has the power to make me want to barf. (via chuffedlittlemuffin) Muffin! You are awesome! Paul Longmore is doing fascinating work on just this subject —...
“In theory, the modern body is an egalitarian notion— everyone has a body...”
– Stephanie P. Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature, from the introduction.
“The body became something the self ‘loosely possessed’ and something...”
– Stephanie P. Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America, explaining a shift in thought about the body in the 18th and 19th centuries.
