March 2007
42 posts
Innocent in London
Man falsely arrested, police gather ‘clues’ from his flat to piece together a ‘case’ (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Flint vs. Chert....whats the difference?
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British Archaeology magazine, June 2002
An article on British Second World War defences (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Manias
A list of manias and what they mean (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
THE FOLLY FELLOWSHIP
Site dedicated to Follies around Britain (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL)
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Sealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Article on the micronation Sealand (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Razzle Dazzle — Dazzle Painting
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Mainstream theories
Non-mainstream theory of human migration, incorporating sub-atlantean myths (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Banff International Curatorial Institute at The...
A Symposium on the compulsion to collect (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Strands Which Refuse to be Braided: Hair Samples...
abstract to purchasable article (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
HumanDynamics_Nature 207, 435 (2005).pdf...
The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics Barabasi (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Pyramid_Science 298, 763-764 (2002).pdf...
Life’s Complexity Pyramid - barabasi (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Science-Perspective.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Network Theory the emergence of the creative enterprise (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
CorrespondencePatterns_Nature 437, 1251...
Network theory examination of the correspondence between Darwin and Einstein in Human Dynamics (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Collections - Pitt Rivers Museum
Introduction to the Pitt Rivers Museum (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography:...
The Relational Museum
Ethnographic museums used to be seen as ‘us’ studying ‘them’. A more productive approach is to view museums as trans-cultural artefacts composed of relations between the museum and its source communities. ‘The Relational Museum (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
GUIDANCE NOTES ON ETHICAL APPROACHES IN MUSEUM...
Museum Ethnographers Group (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Denis Dutton on Jeremy Coote, Anthony Shelton, and...
Review of Coote article and arguments on aesthetics and technique as opposed to awe and wit (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
coote.pdf (application/pdf Object)
‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the
Cattle-Keeping Nilotes
Jeremy Coote (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Micronation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Art Menagerie
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Pynchon - Essays: "Is it OK to be a Luddite?"
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Masking Tape History - Invention of Masking Tape
Dick Drew invented masking tape whilst working at 3M, whilst he was meant to be working developing sandpapers. He used his authorisation to make $100 purchases, in order to make several $99 purchases to fund the research. (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Maskingtape: a tumblog of ideas, quotes, images
A place where maskingtape’s thoughts are aggregated in a tumblog. (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
At the Edge: How old is that old yew?
The difficulties in aging yews due to the cessation of adding growth rings and the likelihood for trunks to split (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of...
About the doubtful nature of meta data (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Audobon's Birds of America
John James Audobon catalogued and every species of bird in America (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
Suzanne Briet page
Overview of 1950s french pioneer of the definition of documentation (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
The end of data
All things are now metadata, there is not distinction between data and metadata (via del.icio.us/maskingtape)
“If you have the right person on the right project, and they are...”
– from http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/maskingtape.htm concerning the development of masking tape. It also echoes ideas brought up in ‘the trap’, whereby an incentivised bureaucracy and civil service under New Labour were allowed to use their initiative to do whatever they...
Communication theory - Wikipedia, the free...
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“There is only one truth. Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.”
– The character Charlie Wainwright, in Underworld, by Don DeLillo (therefore, take it with a pinch of salt. Charlie’s a fairly ugly character, who runs an advertising agency in the sixties.)
I also wouldn’t be surprised if DeLillo is making a fairly ironic reference to the line from the...
'The Trap' by Adam Curtis, BBC
I wanted to post about the Trap, a documentary by Adam Curtis, the man behind the the-West-created-Al-Qaeda film, ‘The Power of Nightmares’, and ‘Century of the Self’.
The BBC site is typically dumbed-down for what was a comprehensive overview of the past fifty years of governmental attempts to secure freedom for its citizens (whatever freedom may mean, is the implicit...
Dan Eastwell: "Breadcrumb wraps in Safari" A...
Dan Eastwell: “Breadcrumb wraps in Safari” A phrase I’ve never uttered before. (via Twitter / Dan Eastwell)
Dan Eastwell: Setting up feeds on tumblr. A phrase...
Dan Eastwell: Setting up feeds on tumblr. A phrase I’ve never uttered before (via Twitter / Dan Eastwell)
TV's Gone Home
I always thought that TVGoHome, penned by Charlie Brooker, was a hilarious parody of the state of British television.
I never could have thought that it was, in fact, a prediction. But here we are, with Fat Men Can’t Hunt where the comissioning editor thrilled to the question: “Just how would a group of overweight, out-of-condition Brits cope with having to search for their...
