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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Resurrecting Merlin
This image, made with Multispectral Imaging and processed using the Minimal Noise Fraction method, brings out annotations on the left-hand side which were invisible to the naked eye, including the stamp ‘Huntingfield’ believed to have been added in the 16th … Continue reading
I’ll Take Manhattan
This month marks the 373rd anniversary of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam’s (AKA New York City) incorporation as a city. This process provided municipal rights as a city, and some degree of independence from the broader Netherland’s colonial authority. … Continue reading
A very chill idea
“Did you know there are Little Free Library book-sharing boxes on all seven continents?” Little Free Library posted on Facebook, highlighting a very cool LFL that has recently been set up at the South Pole by Dr. Russell Schnell, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Little Free Library, NOAA, South Pole
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“Evil, that is, has every advantage but one – it is inferior in imagination.”
The poet W.H. Auden wrote in a New York Times review of the final book in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, “Evil, that is, has every advantage but one – it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility … Continue reading
Snow Joke
Depending on one’s point of view, we have either been cursed or blessed with an abundance of snow this season. Which ever side prevails here in the former U.S. of A., our vocabulary for snow is basic. But the Swedes … Continue reading
Vonnegut’s lament
“In case you haven’t noticed,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were. With good reason.” He lamented the undemocratic nature of the 2000 presidential election, warmongering politicians and a … Continue reading
To be governed
From “What Is Government?” by Clifford Peter Harper, a visual adaptation of text by Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Published in Anarchy Comics #3, July 1981, Last Gasp Comics “To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, … Continue reading
Cabinet of Curiosities (sort of)
Check out the disappointed tourist: an elegy to lost places, a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn. “It would be better to describe reading not as a … Continue reading
Refugee Blues
Refugee Blues Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.Once we had a country and we thought … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 