The current time and date. The current phase of the moon. The current financial cost of the Iraq invasion. The current US national debt. How things look in Moose Lake, Minnesota, Mt. St. Helens, Washington, Davis Station, Antarctica,
Nuuk, Greenland, New York, New York, the Falkland Islands An estimate of the number of people in U.S. prisons right now. The International Space Station: where is it now? Baby names (to 1900, too).
Category: Places
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The Current State of Things
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Images
A catalog of old postcards that you can buy. Jason Salavon’s 100 Special Moments. Paul Smith’s typewriter art. Goodbye, Romania: “Due to server problems when reaching 9% of pixel loss we have to pause this project for a short while.” Mayumi Lake photos. Eye of Science.
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Photography
Photographer’s Formulary: chemicals for alternative photographic processes. Free-for-use photos at The DHD Multimedia Gallery and Openphoto.net. The Rasterbator makes huge posters out of small images. Eric Etheridge’s Sky Hi: Small Signs gallery. Alec Soth’s Sleeping on the Mississippi gallery. Benjamin Pierce’s photos of Eniac. Photos of abandoned places.
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Photography
Soviet war photography at Howard Schickler Fine Art. A Mike Disfarmer gallery. Five thousand photographs by Bret Wallach. Photos of occupied Japan. The Bush asshole mosaic and the Ashcroft porn mosaic. The Bush dead soldier mosaic. Photos of derelict London and Britannia Moribundia. Rob Dobi’s photos of New England ruins. Some Japanese ruins. Photos of the ice-encrusted Sir William Alexander. Shaun O’Boyle’s ruin photography. Mark-Steffen Göwecke’s photos within photos.
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Vehicles
Bicycles. A great deal of information about school buses. Mr. Sharkey’s compendium of information relating to house buses and house trucks. Truck painting in Pakistan. A gallery of Japanese Winnebagos and their owners. Fan pages for the AMC Pacer: Pacermania and The Washington Grove Pacer Farm. A fan page for the AMC Gremlin. The Web homes of The Catboat Association and the Beetle Cat. The Floating Neutrinos. Quite a lot about the Columbia space shuttle’s demise.
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Gypsies
The European Roma Rights Center. Muzeum Romské Kultury. The Gypsy Lore Society. Etudes Tsiganes. Gypsy Collections at The University of Liverpool, including photographs. The Romany Gypsy Photograph Collection.
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Places
Venus as explored by the Soviet union during the 1970s. Borough Market in London. Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona. Subway systems of the world at fakeisthenewreal.org. Buffalo commons map of US counties with fewer than six people per square mile. Data about US cities and towns at city-data.com. Chernobyl and environs. A bus shelter in Unst.
