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links for 2009-05-22

Posted in Links on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Boston Molasses Disaster – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via Sam Anderson: "Okay, seriously, forget it: I hereby release you to go look up the Boston Molasses Disaster. A giant wave of molasses destroyed an entire Boston neighborhood 90 years ago, swallowing horses and throwing an elevated train off its track. It took months to scrub all [...]

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bookporn #41: books from heaven, books from earth

Posted in Bookporn on May 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »

This is Tian Shu (天书) by Xu Bing (徐冰), often translated as Book from the Sky, but sometimes called Book from Heaven. It’s perhaps the most widely known contemporary work by a Chinese artist, so it’s a little mortifying that I only just discovered it this morning, reading about this and that in the Australian [...]

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