NOTE: I've messed up some of the links her to my own posts. Numbers 230 - 335b are correct. Numbers 151-229 have broken links but are findable via the website search with title. Posts 1-150 are correct.
I'll fix this shortly....sorry.
401. Extra-Earth Humano-Alien Souls From Outer Space Repopulate Earth-Hell!!(??) Blank & Missing Things XXVII
400. Manly Purity & Beauty; Soap vs. The Royal Evil, 188
399. Wholesale and Retail: the Timelessness of Bailouts and Corporate Thievery
398. Blank and Empty Things XXV: Magnetizing Thought
397. Correcting Sight and Vision: Seeing Things, 1587.
396. History's Heaviest Bad Idea: Maginot, the Million Ton Line in the Sand
395. Swimming Soviets and the Great Patriotic War, 1939
394. The Sweet Science-- the Social Punch of George Foreman, IBM, Batman and Freud
393. The $6,000 Ham Sandwich and the Ills of Labor Unions--the Republican Failure of 1936
392. "Write for Dollars and for Sense"--a Bad Twist and Worse Advice for Authors, 193
391. On Becoming Nothing: French Collaborators in World War II
390. Skinny Tech: the Worst Swimming Device Ever Produced
389. Making Poetry Pay!
388 The Society for the Friendless and the Child Home Finding Society, 1921
335b. Oliver Byrne's Euclid, (Slightly) Continued
335. Balloon Bridges and 600-Foot-Long Airships, 1854
334. The History of Aerial Bombing 2: Zeppelins Attacking London, 1915
333. The Department of Understatement 2: the Wright Brothers in the 1902 Scientific American
332. A Little Lost Piece of Apollonius and von Neumann Less an "N": Found Stuff
331. Dueling a Female Privateer at the Battle of the Mixed Yellow Mustard; Yazoo Pass, 1863
330. You Are There Department: Dive Bombing Pilot, 1936
329. The Unbearable Wrightness of Being: the Wright Brothers Introduce Europe to FLying, 1908
328. Amelia Earhart: Her Physical Disappearance vs. Lindbergh's Moral Vanishing
327. Advertising in 1568: Thongs, Shoes, Teeth and Urine
326. From the Department of Great Understatement: the Wright Brothers, 1903
325. The Department of What Things Look Like: the Casualties of the Somme, Visualized
324. The History of Images of Aerial Bombing--First Images
323. Naming Things: Re-naming the Badly Named
322. Naming things: Things named Good and Bad
321. Where WAS the West? And the Quest for Finding Nowhere.
320. Gulf Stream Wealth Predictor, 1939--Outsider Logic from the Inside
319. Another Debate: Lincoln Douglas Debate Wordle Word Cloud
318. Allegory and Symbolism: the New Botany and a New Way of Classifying, 1737
317. What Victory Looks Like: the Battle of the Somme and the Thin Line Between Winning and Losing
316. When Things ARE Better in Glorious Black & White: Color Detonation and the Invention of *More* Primary Colors, 1942
315. The Color Blind Geometer and the Color-Coded Euclid
314. Lines that Closed the West: Wire, Rail and Words
313. Complicated Simplicity: A Marconi Wireless Graph of Connections at Sea, 1
312. A Real-Life, No-Kidding, Not-Hollywood, 1880’s Cowboy Talks True
311. No Room for Eden--Annotation of John R. Cash's "The Man Comes Around"
310. A Short Note on Kit Carson: Heroic Beginning and His role in the Murder of the Navajos
309. "Getting it" Backwards: Sanctorius' (1676) Medical Invention, Spongebob, and the Alaskan Bull Wor
308. Ships in the Skyline, Part V: Cities INSIDE of Ships
306. Outsider Logic Series: the Humble Life vs. the Automatical Machine Age (?)
305. What Things Are Not Department: Life, Cityscapes and the Virgin Mary in Stone.
304. Specialized Vocabularly: Hobo Slang 1939
303. Cashing out Corpses: the Value of (Human) Dead as Fertilizer, 1874
302. What Things Used to Look Like: Candy Stores (not "shops"), 1942.
301b. Cashing out Corpses: the Value of (Human) Dead as Fertilizer, 1874
301. A Comet's Tail in Eden: the Great Comet of 1680
300. The Empty, Missing Thoughts of Hitler Youth Girls, 1937
299. Deep Discrimination in a Classic of Anti-Discrimination: Japanese Americans and World War II
298. An Empty Interest in Applying for the Women's Branch of the KKK. ca. 1925
297.Nazi Propaganda: Scaring the Will-to-War, 1935
Null The "Secret" Life of the Pronunciation of the Word "Nuclear"
296.Empty Memory: Telephone Number 20080 (Warsaw), Nazi Occupied Poland and the Holocaust, 1941
295. Empty Cows with Empty Eyes: Blank and Empty Things Department #12
294. Peculiar, Found-Art Image: Hight Rises, Straight Stubby NYC Ferry and a Lonely Tank
293. Hidden, Odd Actions in Empty Spaces
292. A River of Men: French Prisoners in Laon, May, 1918
291. Ships in the Skyline Part III
290.Electric Surf and the First Touch of the Ocean by Blind Children; Coney Island, 1878
289. A 117x1 Mile Blanket of Planes: What 185,000 Planes Looks Like
288.Why Are Mailboxes So Ugly?
287. The Beauty of Drill Bits in the Dark Days of 1918
286. Carrying Away Dead Babies at London Stone
285. Food Bomb, 1942
284. Women's Rights and the Fight for Equality: the Semi-torture of Imprisoned Women, 1912
282. Atomic Bomb Protection: Blast Briefcases and Anti-Heat Linen, 1950: What to Do When the Big Ones Come
281. Humanitarian Propaganda--Hope for those at Home, September 1944.
280. The Prehistory of the Manhattan Project: the MAUD Committee, 1941
279. History of the Future: Mammoth Flying Hotel Fueled by Seagram's
278. Revealing the Worlds Inside of Prints: Finding Hidden Human Geography in Old Prints
277. Images of Scientific Breakthroughs: Astronomy--Gallucci, Galileo, Kepler
276. Odd-looking Technical Inventions: the Blohm and Voss "141" Surveillance Aircraft, 1942
275. History of the Future of the City: Tomorrow Department #4, Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City, 1898
274. Abbreviating Auschwitz in a Monstrous Document: the Construction Contract for the Building of Auschwitz III
273. Eisenhower at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Apri 28, 1945
272b. The Collapse of the Electric Light and Failure of Edison, 1879: Getting Things Terribly Wrong Just Before Things Get Incredibly Right
272. "Why is England in the Pyramid?"-- A Question That Has Never Been Asked Before (?); or, FInding Pi in the Pyramid
271. Where are the Dead? When is a pit a hell, a hell a grave, a grave a pit, and Hades not Hell?
270. Towards a History of Horses in Flight in the 19th Century
269. Visual Display of Graphics: Bad Design for Nazi Data
268. Visual Display of Information: Twigs (!)
267. Naming Explosions: the Most Literary Foreworks Catalog Ever Published?
266. Methods for Solitary Self Crucifixion: the Case of Matthew Lovat, 1822
265. The Art of Writing in the Dark: a Fire-Lit Alphabet,1808
264. Visual Display of Information: Ships on the Pyramid and in Trafalgar Square
263. A Fortune in Frogs AND a Frog Ranch Map. Really. 1936
262. Graphical Display of Data: the R.A.F. and Luftwaffe Present Their Cases, 1938-1940
261. Comparative Display of Quantitative Data: Ships in the Skyline
XX. About where the books and pamphlets I write about come from...
260. Dropping Boxes Filled With Soldiers: a Bad Technical Idea but a Great Strategic One, 1928
259. Unexpected Uses of Musical Instruments: War Headdress
258. The Sublime Mundane: an Homage to School Safety Patrol Pioneers, 1941
257. Imagined Neighborhoods of the Far-Away Dead: Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
256. Freedom of Speech--a Bumpy Ride in 1919, and Some Good Thinking by Oliver Wendell Holmes jr.
255. Sterilization, Castration and the Road to Purity and Marriage Counseling (1939)
254. Wordle Word Art: Einstein 1920 and Poincare 1905, Side by Side--Looking at Two Disparate Approaches to Relativity
253. Mondo Bizarro: Image of the Earth with a Background Earth Floating in Space
252. The Glory of theTechnicolor Electronic Future Arrives: 1942 Electronics
251. The Human Zoo, II: Humans as Exhibits in Zoos and "Zoological Gardens"
250. Wordle Art: 200 Einstein Quotations
249. Wordle Word Art: Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
248. National Socialists Take Control, 1933: Diagram Presentation of German Elections 1919-1933
248. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from Einstein's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
248. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from Einstein's Complete List of Publications
247. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from Einstein's Two Letters to Roosevelt on the Atomic Bomb
246. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from our Particle Physics Chronology, 1895-1995
245. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from our Atomic Bomb Chronology
244. Wordle Word Art--Vocabulary from our Nobel Prize in Physics Chronology
243. Wordle Word Map of this Blog's Titles
242. Palpable
Arithmetic: Feeling and Seeing Representations of Numbers 9/6/08
241. Inventions
Ill-Advised: Bicycle Malapropisms in Edwardian England, 1901-1906 9/5/08
239. Popular Books on the History of Science--a Discussion on a Reading List
238. Inventions,
Wrongly Inspired: the Game of Death, the Game of Life, and the Game of Life
& Death 9/4/08 P
237. Inventions,
Wrongly-Inspired: a Magnificent Chord and Gov. Palin's "Clean" Coal
9/4/08
236. The
Magnificent Mundane: an Instructional WITH PROP on How to Use the Telephone,
1946 9/3/08
234. God's
Atomic Bomb: The Divine, The Infinite, and its "Gift" of the Bomb,
1946 9/2/08
233. Nuclear
Weapons Bomb Effects Pocket Calculator 9/2/08
Chicago
Jails Reality Check, 1947 9/1/08
The
Polish "Threat" to Germany, 1939: Nazi Propaganda on the Perceived
Polish "Invasion" 9/1/0
Garbage
(Trash) (Dust)) Can Advertisement, 1911 8/30/08 Post
Maps
as Propaganda: the Turning of the Tide, January 1943 8/30/08 Post
Book
Design--The Weight of Humanity on Book Covers 8/29/08 Post
Atomic
Bomb--Historic American Building Survey, Trinity Site 8/28/08 Post
Chemical
Warfare Architecture: Dugway Proving Ground's German and Japanese Villages
8/27/08 Post
Graffiti
and Prison Technology ca. 1800 8/27/08 Post
Blank
and Missing People and Things Part 10: Fat Embarassment 8/26/08 Post
Nazi
Propaganda: Scare Tactics in a Hearts and Minds Campaign, 1940 8/26/08
Opium
Warehouses, 1851 8/25/08
"Irreplaceables"
of Industry: the Grindstone, 1866 8/25/08
Terrific
Achievement in the Display of Quantitative Information: Ranks of the States,
1900 8/23/08
Classic
in the History of Surgery (1833) and its Reviewer Who Hated Surgical Tools
8/22/08
Unusual
Maps: Cartographic Displays of Comparative Distance--Supplying Great Britain in
1940 8/21/08 Post
When
Things Are Not What They Are: Duchamp's Readymades Rejected as Art, 1916
8/20/08 Post
Terrific
Titles: Gentle Explosives and Flagpole Painting 8/18/08
The
Island of Lost Behavior: Demanded Behavior at the Waldorf-Astoria, 1938
8/17/08
Thinking
VERY Big--Big Life in the Sky, pre-WWII 8/16/08
Maps
of Cities of the Dead 8/16/08
20th
Century Cartoon Outline Art and the Renaissance 8/15/08
Propaganda
Maps #2: the Nazis. the Big Lie, and Cartography 8/15/08
An
Answer to Anti-Intellectualism in Wood: the Desk-Cathedral 8/14/08
Empty,
Blank and Disappeared Things 7: the Skies of Krazy Kat 8/14/08
The
World of Words & Some Hidden Future-Physics Poetry of 1826 8/13/08
Empty,
Blank and Disappeared Things 6: Skin and Sand 8/12/08
Atomic
Bomb: William Shockley and the Economics of Using the Atomic Bomb, 1945
8/6/08 Pos
Deciding
to Use the Atomic Bomb: The Chicago Metallurgical Lab Poll, July, 1945
8/5/08 Post
Atomic
Bomb: Reporting on the Nagasaki Bomb in the "Manzanar Free Press", 11
August 1945 8/3/08
Blank
People & Steps Towards a History of Blank and Missing Things: Blank Books
8/2/08
The
Birth of the "Internet" at the End of WWII: Vannevar Bush & the
MEMEX, July 1945 8/1/08
Atomic
Bomb--the Cautionary Letters of Einstein and Szilard, 1939-1945 7/31/08
Atomic
Bomb, 1 August 1945: Stimson on the Publication of the Smyth Report 7/31/08
The
Atomic Bomb: the Only Order to Actually Use Nuclear Weapons, 25 July 1945
7/30/08
The
Atomic Bomb: 6 August 1945. Propaganda Leaflet Dropped on Japanese Cities
7/30/08
The
Atomic Bomb, 31 July 1945: Truman's Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima
7/30/08
The
Transformation of Animals into Man--Peter Camper's Bad Idea of 1778 7/29/08
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People, Moonmen, and the John Herschel Hoax of 1835 7/28/08
The
Geometry of American Western Expansion: Lines in the Sand, Lines in the Air
7/26/08 Post
The
Advancing Frontier and the Increase in Bloody Names of Literary Heroes
7/25/08 Post
The
Mother of all Renaisance Logical Graphs, The Knight's Tour, Porphyry and
Boethius 7/24/08
Census
Art and the Display of Quantitative Data, 1860 7/21/08
Comparative
Displays: Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Islands, 1856 7/20/08
Things
People Did Underground: Coal Miners, Trench bombers, Heath Robinson, George
Orwell, Tom Waits 7/19/08
Atomic
Bomb Graffiti 7/18/08
Trinity
at 63: The First Atomic Blast, Alamogordo, July 16, 1945 7/16/08
The
Human Zoo: People in Cages, Enclosures and Chained for Paid Amusement
7/15/08
Nazi's
and the(ir) Display of Quantitative Information: Displays of the Big Lie,
1928-1940 7/14/08
The
Big Question: How Long Will Oil Last? (1919) 7/13/08
The
Tree of Life and Coal's Phylogeny--a decent Diagram but a Bad Idea 7/13/08
Post
The
Worst Picture of Santa, Ever: Selliing Cigarettes, Post WW2 7/11/08 Post
Blank
and Disappeared People Follow-Up: a Sin-Laden Manikin, 1871 7/10/08 Post
Big
Weirdness: Eating Glaciers AND Moving Glaciers Cross-Country (??) 1921
7/10/08 Post
Dada and Modernism for Children? 1905-1932 7/9/08
The
Marcel Duchamp of 18th Century France: Visionary Architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu
7/8/08
Food,
Food Packaging and Creating Desire: the du Pont Company, WWII. 7/7/08
The
Display of Quantitative Data--a Pretty but Wanting Example; British Weather
7/5/08
Straps,
Forceps, the Chamberlens and the Subjugation of Women 7/4/08
The
Mermaid--Not Exactly a Disney Creature, 1822 7/2/08
Simple
Sublimity: Images of Disappeared Common Objects. Traffic Lights, 1936
7/2/08 Post
Subduing
Insanity with Narcotic Induced Sleep: Mental Illness Treatments in 1845
7/1/08 Post
Crowds
and the Press of Humanity: WWI German Prisoners, November, 1918 7/1/08 Post
Beautiful
Technical Illustration: Heck's "Iconographic Encyclopedia", 1851
6/30/08 Post
150. Weird and Bad Ideas Department: Shell's Happy Herbicide, 1960
149.Fantastic Titles: "Mud, Its Romantic Story", 1935
148.Nails and Screws: Beautiful and Well-Designed Simplicity
147.Weird and Bad Ideas Department: Scientific Comb Fingers and Hair Restoration, 1936
146. Weird and Bad Ideas Department: The Skinny on Fat and Vice Versa, 1936
144. Ghost Trails of the Mississippi River: Harold Fisk's Geological Map of 1944
143. Pre-histories of Great Ideas: Mandelbrot and the Fractal, 1967-1975
142. The British Navy Displayed, 1904: Forty Miles of Ships in an Early-ish Example of Good Display of Quantitative Data
141. Fantastic and Unreachable Intellectual Claims: Psychology and Dr. Strangelove
140. The Longest Surrender in U.S. History—Native Americans and the Rationing of Food, 1870-1925 (+)
139. Three Great First F’s: Forks, Forts, Fission, (and one plain non-first F (Nobel))
138. Being Wrong at the Beginning of It All--Derrida 10-Second Intellectual WordBox
137. Fantastic and Unbuildable Architecture #6: the Pyramids of Gizeh in Detroit (Michigan), 1908
136. Unusual Questions 1: Are the London Bridges Too Far Apart? 1904
135. Ships in Siege: Rhodes 4th Century BCE and Porphyrius 4th Century ACE
134. Hobo Language Map: John Camden Hotten, 1870
133. Cross Sections and City Plans: London, Berlin and NYC, 1914 and 1927
132. The Art of Industry and Technology 1: Locomotive Roundhouse, ca. 1942
131. Chemistry History under the Cover of Alchemy: William Cooper's Philosophical Epitaph, 1673.
130. Alphabetical Renaissance Bestiary: Edward Topsell's "Four Footed Beasts", 1607
129. The Ship of Fools, In Praise of Folly, and Intelligent Dischord: Brant, Erasmus, and Geiler, 1497-1515
128. Cosmology, Virgil, Symbolism and Confusion, 1533
126. Artistic Display of Quantitative Data: the German Navy, 1912
125. Harvard’s Giant Brain; the ASCC Mark I Computer
124. Bombing Manhattan, 1943: the Nazi "Amerika Bomber" by Eugen Sanger
123. Five Big Lines: Representing the BigLittle World in Feynman Diagrams
122. Bizarre Thinking and a Towering Classic of Lost Logic: the Japanese War Lords and Kaiser Wilhelm, the "True Kidnappers" of the Lindbergh Baby and the Beginning of World War Two
121. Statistical Fossils 2: Found Stats On International Mail Delivery Times, 1900.
120. Statistical Fossils 1: Found Stats Concerning the Rifles of the World, 1899
119. The Most Beautiful Map in the World--the Bellman's Fit from the Hunting of the Snark
118. Visionary Architecture and a Falling Man Prank--E. Hebrard's Tower of Progress, 1913.
117. Atomic Weapons, Eniwetok Atoll, and the Most Obscure Reference to America's Entrance into Vietnam
116. Gigantic and Unbuildable Architecture: Philip Johnson and the Walled "Third City"
115. Gigantic and Unbuildable Architecture: Bucky Fuller’s Midtown Manhattan Dome, 1968
114. Hidden Children: Found Art and Social Vignettes Inside Art
113. Measuring and Comparing: Feeding the London Zoo in Terms of 1944 Telephone Operators
112. The Most Significant Invention or Discovery in the Prolongation of Human Life: the Flush Toilet (?)
111. Head Replacement ca. 1700--the Baker of Eeklo
110. Upper Atmosphere In-Field Research, 1865: James Glaisher and his Balloon Ascent
109. Not the War of the Worlds II—Ripping Off H.G. Wells
108. Gigantic and Unbuildable Buildings 2: the 2,300' Tall Restaurant of Eugene Freyssinet, 1933
107. A Return to Fat:1920's Fat (Reduction) Scams; Fat Soap, Strychnine Pills, and Sugar
106. Gigantic and Unbuildable Buildings: Leroy Buffington, 1889
105. The Best Images of Horses, Ever: Hans Beham and Perspective, 1528
104. Saturn, Planet and Beast of Gods: George Pencz' Illustration of 1545
103. Finding Hidden Images in Antique Prints: 18th Century Forensic Social X-Rays of Florence by Guiseppe Zocchi
102. Early "Clip Art" Books: Amman, Vogtherr and the Mustard Seed Garden
101. Images of Hell on Title Pages of Renaissance and Baroque Books
100. Art Made of Fat, Velvet Liberace and the Discovery of Bone
99. Pre-Columbian American "Exploration"--St. Brendan, the Island Whale, and All That
98. Different Forms of Writing 2: Recording Movement. Dance Notation
97. Different Forms of Writing 1: Big Writing With Light—Nollet, Citroen, Barnum and Packard
96. Missing People--[Addition]. Joachim van Ringelberg, 1541.
95. The Beauty and Iconography of Title Pages: Frau Mauro’s Sphaera volgare novamente (1537) and a Very Early Glimpse of America on a Globe
94. Electrocution, the Electric Chair, and the Evil, Spiteful Genius of Thomas Edison 5/19/08
93. Color Music--Found Images and the Second Perfect Number. 5/18/08 John Ptak
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92. Psychological Warfare--Aerial Propaganda Leaflets and Surrender Tickets, WWII. 5/17/08
91. Beautiful Title Pages 6: Losing Your Head—St. Denis and the Cephalophoric Title Page Books 5/16/08
90. Beautiful Title Pages 7: Gorgeous design for Childen by Christoph Weigel, 1720 Books 5/16/08
89. Beautiful Title Pages 5: Chocolate, Morals and the Birth of the British Museum Science 5/16/08
88. The History of Stopping Time #1: A.M. Worthington, Ernst Mach and Doc Edgerton 5/15/08
87. Making People Disappear Part 2-Conjurers, Blank People and Anti-Blank People. Orson Welles, Robert Heller and J.J. Thomson 5/14/08
86. The Weight of War--Bombing and Shelling During World War I and a Lesson in Orders of Magnitude 5/13/08
85. Missing People—Pelerin, Schoen and Marey and Picturing Absent and Empty People for the Study of Perspective. 5/12/08
84. Human Power—Raw Images of the Middle Passage, the American Stain of Slavery. Wadstrom and the Slave Ship Brookes. 5/11/08
83. Human Powered Machines--Bockler's Theatrum Novum, 1661 5/10/08
82. The Big Cycle—the Beginning and the End of the World and the Weight of All Things, Depicted 1445-1550. 5/9/08
81. Digital “Computers” 1450-1750: Memory and Calculating on the Fingers and Hands
80. Dismantling Reality--Euclid, Mondrian, Malevich, Lobachevsky and the Appearance and Disappearance of Form Through Geometry. 5/7/08
79.. Science and Art; True Science or Science Fiction? #1: Tinguely, Oliver Byrne, Vredeman de Vries and the Theatrophone 5/6/08
78. On a Wing and a Prayer--Birds and Human Flight: de Bergerac, Leonardo & Co. 5/5/08
77. Tomorrow Department #1—Wide, Wide Cars in 1940 5/4/08
76.. 18th Century Calculator for the Blind--Nicholas Saunderson, Mathematician 5/3/08
75. Great Cases of Understatement in Scientific Discoveries—Lister, Bell, the Wrights and Philo Farnsworth. 5/2/08
74. Sensitive Flames, 1874 5/1/08
73. Shaping Space and Controlling What We See—Determining What Color “Is”, Emily Vanderpoel and Pre-Kandinsky Art 4/30/08
72.. Chasing the Squamish and the Fremantle Doctor—Classifying and Naming the Wind 4/29/08
71. Awards and Problems of Recognition: Helmholtz, Mayer, Stillman, Alpher, Herman and Beringer 4/28/08
70. Beautiful Circles 2: The Circle and the Wheels of Destiny, Fortune and History--Robert Fludd, Lorenzo Spirito and Sigismondi Fanti. 4/27/08
69. Beautiful Circles in Science #1: the Astronomy and Cosmology of Fontenelle and the Plurality of Worlds, 1686. 4/26/08
68. First-Hand Observations of Isaac Newton--Humphrey Newton and the Principia Mathematica 4/25/08
67. The Mystery of the Sun's Missing Smile 4/24/08
66. (Literal) Bits of History--the Softly Pedestrian Beginning of the Atomic Bomb 4/23/08
65. The Beauty of Repair—Moving Heavy Stuff and Fixing the Impossible: Zabaglia and Fontana, 4/22/08
64. The Mathematical Garden—Alexander Pope and the Geometry of Natural Experience 4/21/08
63. .Books of Shadows—Trithemius, Bacon, Porta, & Falconer vs. a Make-Believe Derrida on How to Make Something Unintelligible 4/20/08
62. Graphical Display of Data—Picturing BIG Numbers, U.S. Aircraft Production in World War II 4/19/08
61. The Semi-Encapsulated City--London, pre-Blitz, Barrage Balloons, 1938 4/19/08
60. Maps of Emptying Humans of Blood, II: Johann Stoeffler, 1518 4/19/08 John Ptak
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59. Maps of the Human Condition--Bloodletting, the Missing Man, and a 16th century MASH; Fabrizzi and Gersdorff. 4/18/08
58. The Nature of Things & the Display of Information: Alhazen and Optics, 1572 4/17/08
57. Visionaries: the Crowded Future of Albert Robida, the Jules Verne of SciFi Art 4/16/08
56. “It’s ALIVE!” Scientists in Motion Pictures—Einstein, Godel & Dirac vs. Buck Rogers and the Bride of Frankenstein 4/15/08
55. Beautiful Title Pages 3--Roger Bacon's "Novum Organum" and the Voyage of Discovery, 1620 4/15/08
54. Beautiful Title Pages 2—Living Skeletons and Anthropomorphic Shells 4/14/08
53. Typewriter and Anti-typewriter: Writing Systems of von Knauss, della Porta, Trithemius, Schotti 4/13/08
52. Dada, Graphs and Max Ernst, 1922 4/12/08
51. The History of the Future 2: Henard touches on the Future's Future Plan, 1911 4/11/08
50. History of the Future 1: Caricature of the Future, J.J. Grandville and the Bridge Across Saturn, 1844 4/10/08
49. Emblems of Featureless Faces--Philibert de l'Orme's Architecture, 1568 4/9/08
48. Beautiful Title Pages 1—Oswald Croll’s Chemistry, 1611 4/8/08
47. Titanic Understatement at the Alpha & the Omega--Two Big Bangs 4/8/08
46. The Internet in 1620—Agostino Ramelli’s Magnificent Inventions 4/7/08
45. Graphical Representation of Data 3—the American Flag’s Stripes as a Slave’s Whipping Scars 4/7/08
44. Graphical Representation of Data 2—What a Million Dead People Looks Like 4/6/08
43. Graphical Representation of Data #1--England Invaded, 1908 4/5/08
42. Being Wrong at the Beginning of It All--Derridahaha 10-Second Intellectual WordBox 4/5/08
41. The Strength of Iridescence--Visualizing Mental Calculations, Part II
40. Things Best Left Unbuilt: Case 1, Liberty Landing and Cllosign NYC Harbor. 4/2/08 John Ptak
40. Little Science—the Scientific Readiness of Water Bottles 4/1/08
39. Big Science, 1882--Hauling (Really Big) Ships Overland 3/30/08
38. The String of the Empire--running the British Railway with String, 1908. 3/29/08
37. Making Things Disappear--Kandinsky (and Nature) and Penzias (and Alpher)3/29/08
36. Transient Statues: Naming Clouds and Snowflakes 3/27/08
35. I wished I would have... 3/21/08
34 Original Reflections: unique experiences with mirrors: Van Eyck & Brunellesci 3/21/08
33. The First Shadow of a Color “Photograph”—Jan van Eyck, 1436
32. Durer's Beautiful Monsters. The Geometrical Man Takes Control, 1525. 3/19/08
31. What’s “The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?” Unsliced bread. 3/15/08 John Ptak
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30. Bombing England, 1940--a View of the Battle of Britain from Germany 3/15/08
29. Liserl and Mileva--Einstein's Disposable Women 3/15/08
28. The Solids in Uccello 3/14/08
27. The First Photograph of a Smell 3/13/08
26. Dr. Seuss and the 236 Words that Changed Reading Forever 3/12/08
25. The X-Ray of the Imagination 2: Phrenology, Chinese Hell Scrolls, and the Beauty of the Thought Balloon 3/11/08
24. The Sovietesque Disappearance of Pacioli’s Rhombicuboctahedron 3/11/08
23. Underground Horses, 1875 3/8/08
22. An Analog(ous) Victorian youtube: the Eccentric vs. the Insane in Victorian England
21. Homer Simpson on Perspective: the Rare Antique Image Looking Straight Down from a Height 3/7/08
20. Blowing Up Hell(gate), 1876 3/6/08
19. The Discovery of the "Obvious"--Joseph Lister and J.N.L. Durand and their Epochal Discoveries 3/4/08
18. The Wrong Stuff, Righted--the Attack on Darwin's Descent, 18713/2/08
17. The Remembrancer of the Pleasant Micro-Historical: Images #1, Marey, Roentgen, Duchamp & Malevich 2/26/08
16. Inside Looking Out--Ernst Mach vs. the Hudson River 2/23/08
15. Imago Frammeni: Boulle, the Dogon, Jouffret, the Simple and the Complex 2/21/08
14 . Roe v. Doe in the History of Science: Great Anonymous Literature, Darwin, Newton, Malthus, Painee 2/19/08
13. Seeing, Sight & Memory: Jevons, Bruno, Borges, Heller and Proust 2/16/08
12. The Spine of Society and the Beginning of the Grid, the 19th Century "Internet"2/12/
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10. Things That Were But Almost Weren't, Part II: the Disappearance of Alex Bell 2/8/08
9. A New Class of Scientific Image? Synesthesia, Francis Galton and Picturing Thought
8 Things That Almost Were But Weren't--Photography in 1839 and Television in 1924 1/30/08
7. The First American Map Showing Elevations at Which Trees are Found 1/30/08
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