Ordinal's Cabinet of Ephemera

"Terry Pratchett is to make an appearance in the virtual world Second Life. Pratchett will feature in..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:10:51 +0100

“Terry Pratchett is to make an appearance in the virtual world Second Life. Pratchett will feature in a sim version of a South Pacific tropical island, modelled on the island Nation which features in Pratchett’s new novel, NATION.”

- theBookseller.com

"The short version: It does a lot less than you’d hope, and setup of the whole show is far..."

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:37:09 +0100

“The short version: It does a lot less than you’d hope, and setup of the whole show is far clunkier than you’d like. On with the show…”

- Hands on: The Second Life SLim client is here - Massively

BBC - Liverpool - Capital of Culture - In Pictures: Spider...

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:20:13 +0100

BBC - Liverpool - Capital of Culture - In Pictures: Spider arrives

Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales - we make money not art

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:37:07 +0100

Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales - we make money not art: A virtual transgender suit, and Second Death.

Digital Edition - The Edison Papers

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:23:27 +0100

Digital Edition - The Edison Papers: Archive of a subset of Edison’s five million pages of recorded paper. Rather confusing to navigate, mind you.

"Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary..."

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:15:10 +0100

“Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary which is still maintained as an important part of the United States historical record contains five million (5,000,000) pages. Important developments such as his work on perfecting the light bulb and electric lighting systems are captured in great detail. He never met a sheet of paper he didn’t like.
What lessons can we take from his work today, a century later? How did his note-taking help him to become the world’s most famous inventor with over a thousand (1093) U.S. patents in his name for a wide range of technologies from movie cameras and phonographs to cement making and electric lighting? In short, what made his note-taking and filing system so great?
Edison’s system was developed to support his life work and was very successful in doing so. The main elements of his system are as follows:”

- How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison - Stepcase Lifehack

“Idea Pad lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map,...

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:42:15 +0100

“Idea Pad lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. Diagrams can be exported to any desktop graphics program, and Outlines can be exported to any word processor via the Memo Pad. Use Idea Pad to brainstorm new ideas, illustrate concepts, plan presentations, and create organizational charts.”

nosleep software

Hive Five Call For Contenders: Best Note-Taking Tools?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:37 +0100

Hive Five Call For Contenders: Best Note-Taking Tools?

"WebFlock is an application for private-labeled, Web-based virtual experiences. It provides a..."

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:15:06 +0100

“WebFlock is an application for private-labeled, Web-based virtual experiences. It provides a visually immersive environment for social interaction, media consumption and game play.”

- The Electric Sheep Company: Products: WebFlock

New Babbage - A Steampunk City in Second Life (via Lokiboy)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:31:56 +0100

New Babbage - A Steampunk City in Second Life (via Lokiboy)

"Endorsement for resident help groups is an effort to allow good-standing resident-run resident help..."

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:31:25 +0100

“Endorsement for resident help groups is an effort to allow good-standing resident-run resident help groups within Second Life to become endorsed by Linden Lab and be a part of the Resident Help Network. Groups with emphasis on helping new or experienced residents with Second Life related learning or immersion without charge are eligible. The desired outcome of the Resident Help Network is to stretch the boundaries of group efforts by uniting and collaborating in a network. For more details, see below!”

- Introduction to Endorsed Resident Help Groups - Second Life Wiki

he's a cold-hearted snake, look into his eyes (disgraceful Desmond Shang SL5B antics)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:11:59 +0100

he's a cold-hearted snake, look into his eyes (disgraceful Desmond Shang SL5B antics)

"Shoshana Epsilon’s latest post backs up this account, and further reveals that Dusty Linden is..."

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:22:00 +0100

“Shoshana Epsilon’s latest post backs up this account, and further reveals that Dusty Linden is attempting to block any image with a child and adult in the same picture, or any image of a child on or near a bed — even completely nonsexual, family-oriented pictures. Shoshana describes it as a blanket policy (no pun intended), not a case-by-case review to screen out images which are or could be construed as erotic images of children (or child-like avatars).”

- Jacek Lives » Blog Archive » The Meddling Eye-in-Hand (via Massively)

"In the 1930s, after his historic flight over the Atlantic, Lindbergh hooked up with Alexis Carrel, a..."

Mon, 26 May 2008 12:44:28 +0100

“In the 1930s, after his historic flight over the Atlantic, Lindbergh hooked up with Alexis Carrel, a brilliant surgeon born in France but who worked in a laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. Carrel - who was a mystic as well as a scientist - had already won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on the transplantation of blood vessels. But his real dream was a future in which the human body would become, in Friedman’s words, “a machine with constantly reparable or replaceable parts”.
This is where Lindbergh entered the frame. Carrel hoped that his own scientific nous combined with Lindbergh’s machine-making proficiency (Lindbergh had, after all, already built a plane that flew non-stop to Paris) would make his fantasy about immortal machine-enabled human beings a reality.”

- BBC NEWS | Magazine | Lindbergh’s deranged quest for immortality

"Given pride of place in an unassuming museum on the East Coast of America is a pair of 200-year-old..."

Mon, 26 May 2008 12:19:06 +0100

“

Given pride of place in an unassuming museum on the East Coast of America is a pair of 200-year-old duelling pistols shrouded in mystery.

The intricately decorated guns were said to have been forged from the iron of a fallen meteorite.

They were a unique gift from the commander of a South American region, which would later become Argentina, to the fourth US president, James Madison.

”

- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Science probe for ‘space pistols’

vintage ephemera - a set on Flickr

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:54:22 +0100

vintage ephemera - a set on Flickr

Armour and top hat (via peacay)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:29:56 +0000

Armour and top hat (via peacay)

Sneeze

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:35:04 +0000

Sneeze

halloweenesque octopus (via peacay)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:39:09 +0000

halloweenesque octopus (via peacay)

Warren Ellis » FIXED

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:15:08 +0000

Warren Ellis » FIXED