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"Inside the Watch" from Questions and Answers about Everyday Science, 1961

A selection of wonderful little illustrations found in a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. In the pages without full borders the margins have been decorated with an array of different images depicting flowers, birds, jewellery, animals, household utensils and these superb rainbow-coloured ‘grotesques’. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Found via: Demonagerie Underlying Work: PD Worldwide | Digital Copy: No Additional Rights Download: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of […]

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Fantasy Future Map: Los Angeles County Light Rail System from the Movie “Her”

I love it when I’m able to fulfill requests from readers. Here’s a note I got from an anonymous follower the other day:

The new movie “Her” is set in a futuristic LA with a very un-LA-like amount of public transport use and at one point includes a shot off to the side of the frame of a map showing a much, much bigger LA Metro rail network. Would love to see that on this site! Don’t suppose you have any connections in the movie business?

Not really, but luckily, the good people over at r/losangeles on Reddit have come to the rescue and posted this screenshot from the movie. By the looks of it, future LA has ripped up the entire current system and replaced it with a new one.

The map itself is a bit naff, with all sorts of weird angles in its lines (which also take some ridiculously circuitous routes to get where they’re going), angled text and strangely patterned background. There’s a definite Washington Metro map vibe to it with the thicker route lines and circular interchange station symbols – although the large red circles look more like the epicentre of a nuclear blast than a place to change trains. There’s also a station at the northern end of the “Orange Line” that seems to broadcast an awesome wi-fi signal.

I haven’t seen this intriguing-sounding film yet, but I’m guessing that this map is seen for a few fleeting seconds only and certainly isn’t meant to hold up to any in-depth scrutiny – it’s designed to set a mood, not define the transportation policy of a future Los Angeles.

For an interesting read about the movie’s portrayal of a public transit-oriented future in LA, see this Atlantic Cities article.

(Source: r/losangeles on Reddit via Steven White)

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.

The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. Pictured here is Snow vogue, written by one Darcy Glinto and published in London by Wells Gardner in 1941. Copies are held at only three other libraries. It’s the tale of Dario, a ruthless gangster who, as the title suggests, gets involved in peddling cocaine. Violence, victimization, and death inevitably ensue. The jacket copy promises Snow vogue to be “just as slick and twice as fast as any other gangster story. That is because Dario was that kind of man.”

The name “Darcy Glinto” is, of course, too good to be true. It’s a pseudonym for Harold Ernest Kelly (1899-1969), an author and freelance journalist who wrote in the crime, sci-fi, and Western genres, among others, under a host of assumed names.

Harold Ernest Kelly. Snow vogue. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., [1941]. EC9.K2965.941s

Thanks to rare book cataloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.

Ever wonder what some of the 1950s cookbook horrors Cory posts here would look (and taste) like in real life? That's what the Midcentury Menu blog is for — cooking and eating (or, at least, tasting) savory jello-and-meat monstrosities so you don't have to.

Dante D’Orazio, reporting for The Verge:

A new Gmail setting lets you choose whether you want people to be able to send an email to your Google+ profile — even if they don’t have your email address in their contacts. […]

By default, the setting will allow anyone on Google+ to send you an email through Gmail. To be clear, Gmail users will be able to type anyone’s name into the recipient field and even if you don’t know that person’s email address. Google will auto-suggest the names of Google+ users, though your actual email address will not be revealed unless you reply to the email.

This has to be a mistake. Surely Google will change this from opt-out to opt-in.

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Russian courtiers dressed in traditional and historical Russian costume for the Romanov Anniversary Ball in 1903.

Labyrinth (1986)

i was intrigued by a customer challenge to the bartenders at Drink to make something using Circus Peanuts a couple of weeks ago. that drink included bacon infused bourbon and a peanut foam with the Circus Peanut (floated on the foam) to provide a banana component , and of course they called it The Elvis. i asked about that Bourbon and was offered a taste. wow! smoky porky goodness in liquid form. we chatted a bit and the bartender mentioned that he was thinking of doing a flip with eggs (whites only?). i immediately approved the idea and in short order i was having Bacon & Eggs. very nice. i also spent some time watching one of the crew make the ice for the evening. big blocks of Clear Ice had warm water poured over them and then allowed to fracture. Neat-O! then the bartender carefully surveyed the cracks and began splitting and fitting the Big Chunks into rocks glasses. i also got to sample some of the bases for two different kinds of milk punches. again Wow! i am completely in love with this place. it has gotten me excited in the same way i was when i discovered well crafted restaurant food.

Boston is abuzz with new places making all sorts of whizzy cocktails. And to some extent I am a fan. Eastern Standard for example makes some really amazing drinks and their focus is distinctly old school and the cocktails are darned good. Then there are drinks like this, recently served at Drink in Boston; - Bacon infused bourbon and a peanut foam with the Circus Peanut (floated on the foam)

Maine Goveror Paul LePage thinks that you should put your 12-year-old to work.

It hurts because it’s true.

300 Years of Imaginary Space Ships: 1630-1920:

Found via Scientific American.

A 16-year-old transgender teenager who says she has been repeatedly victimized by other students at her California high school is now facing a criminal charge for defending herself during a confrontation. The students who were allegedly harassing Jewelyes Gutierrez have not been charged.

The incident was captured on cellphone video, according to a report from KTVU.

"Jewelyes identifies as transgender, and I think that she had been tormented and harassed at school because of how she identifies," said Gutierrez's public defender, Kaylie Simon. "When I initially received this case, I was shocked that the district attorney's office decided to charge Jewelyes."

Gutierrez says she had previously gone to school officials seeking help, but the harassment persisted; when confronted by bullies once again, she says she decided to fight back.

The district attorney's office has not commented on the charges, but West Contra Costa School Board president Charles Ramsey says the case is not "something that should rise the level of where it has to go to the District Attorney's office for prosecution."

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An eye-opening look into the world of tech public communications: a reporter at Mission Local wanted to know what Google thought about being more hated than ever these days. Its (inadvertent) reply says it all.

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In a case that might have First Amendment consequences and will certainly strike fear in the hearts of anonymous trolls, a Virginia appeals court upheld a contempt ruling against Yelp, demanding that it release the identities of seven reviewers whom a carpet cleaner intends to sue for defamation.

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She'd filed a restraining order against him. But, his attorney claims his client never sent the request, arguing that he "has no idea how the woman ... got such an invitation" and "suggesting that it might have been sent by a robot."

Cuame Nelson was recording a new music video when someone called out his stage name. The rapper, fresh out of a stint at Rikers Island, turned toward the voice, expecting to see a fan or friend. Instead, he saw several plainclothes police officers, one of them wearing a shirt bearing the name of Mr. Nelson’s group.

Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel once said that rising gun violence was a function of "hip-hop culture." Nope. If anything, hip-hop is saving America from crime.

1933 Katherine Hepburn is in a metallic moth suit designed by Walter Plunkett for her second film, “Christopher Strong.” - Via

If the gloves don't fit ...

A new revision to California state health code requires food-service workers to use gloves or utensils at all times when handling ready-to-eat food, a major shift from the previous, more-lenient policy. It's not unlike laws already in effect in New York, for example, and the state is even giving restaurants six months to adjust. But no four-star sushi master is going to be rolled out in rubber gloves, of course, so like any good law, there are loopholes: Bare-hand contact is allowed if management gets approval from health authorities, acknowledges liability, and imposes a strict regimen that includes "double hand washing," nail brush-scouring, post-scrubbing antiseptic, paid sick leave for employees, and more. [Inside Scoop SF]

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My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

The Expanded Universe as we knew it will soon be no more. Disney has created a special committee whose job it will be to figure out what is and isn't part of a complete Star Wars canon — meaning all the EU material created over the years will be judged, and either become official or deemed invalid.

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