Bodh Gaya in 1930’s
January 23, 2008
From The Secret Museum an image of Bodh Gaya in the early 1900’s (?) 
I have two copies of one of these little volumes. Ian Macky at Secret Museum of Mankind has scanned and put up all the pictures - an astounding bit of work. Thank you!
Somebody save the Guy!
January 23, 2008
Cashing in our Deforest Dough
January 16, 2008
Heritage Theatre facade preservation
December 12, 2007
Ankor Wat suffered urban sprawl
August 15, 2007
Ankor Wat was once a sprawling suburb at BBC News. The citizens themselves were architects of the demise.
The large-scale city engineered its own downfall by disrupting its local environment by expanding continuously into the surrounding forests,”
Hey! Planning committee?
Perambulator; stuff to drive your baby buggy.
August 5, 2007
I used to go into the London Public Library some days and wander to a shelf location where I had never been before, walk till felt like stopping and browse through the shelf - whatever shelf was beside me and look for a book that might be interesting. Something usually turned up.
I had found Rives on 4 a.m. on Miro on the TED channel the other day, and sent the link to a friend of mine, Spanner McNeil, who replied with a story of his coincidentally tuning in to a shortwave broadcast on “NHK Radio Japan. Signal strength 3-5. Hiss poor to inaudible. “…the show is World Wide Interactive and this is DX Mailbag” where they read a letter sent to them where Roy talked about being up at 4 AM.
This little exchange prompted me, to, for the hell of it, Google ‘Shortwave Radio Blogs’ to stumble on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog and the MP3 link leading to a series of articles on a very long page about very obscure recording finds, cassettes, old vinyl, and some really obscure videos.
Of course it leads to Classic Television Showbiz and Saturday Morning Blog
I could be trapped in this internet thing forever.
The Past is so amusing
July 2, 2007
It’s facile to look back and laugh. I would have been 12 years old, when in 1965, this video about “The Computer at Western” was broadcast. Yes. THE Computer at Western! which plays music and can do ‘ten years worth of astronomy calculations in just one day!’ One of many period news pieces at The CFPL TV news archives, like this one; High School Student Appeals for the Right to Wear Long Hair and the Saga of Slippery the Seal, the story without which London wouldn’t have a soul.
