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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Reading in Digital age

Marshall McLuhan
fishwrap journalism

Why we Read?

1. Of things we might not do - Drive a motorcycle like in 'Through Dust and Darkness'.

When I read of a case where a man knew that he was about to die in a week or so, I asked my husband if he knew of any such case, not having known one like that before. He told of a relative it happened to.

How David Isay started and kept on with Storycorps too is a touching story.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Metaphors dont translate

In Telugu chukka (dot) means a star. Chukka also means drop like that of a drink.
go to town

Design your nut shell

bus wrap material used for cabinet.
Caviar pop art
www.livinginanutshell.com
Starck's Lou Lou chair , a tranparent chair is used as a nightstand. I do that all the time use chairs to hold stuff.

Liquid chalk marker for Menu du Jour Mirror

Fabric removal gel on velvet makes negative pictures.

Paint by number paper topper
Chandelier Light box inspired from photographers light box with light from behind.
Doll house bookshelf

Hearken the history

At a preschool orientation, saw a kid trying to sort cylinders filled with different sound materials. I thought how we dont exercise the auditory skill too much.
Archaeoacoustics

brownwax
Fluttering flint

Kaluli music

Temiar people mimic cicadas sound in the beating of the bamboo poles.
Temiar music
Writing vedas is forbidden. I didnt know of it until I read this book but my husband knows it.
Recess in babri mosque for acoustic reasons.
Purandara mantapa musical pillars
Pocket park

How the other half lives
How Russia sounds?

Elephant

A photo in this book Behemoth The History of the elephant in America shows a part of US Map as an elephant. During Thanksgiving, I had the seen the US map shown as a turkey.

9 in 1 book

All in one were guide books for competitive exams. This book combines so many books into one. Just like Freelancer, a maximum of 50 bids or ads for free membership.
Soon after the publishing of this book, Trading assistant program has been terminated.
Drop shipping

Nimbus dome for photography of coins, jewelry.

Infinity board

Ice land

A friend told me about polar bears extincting. Mothers getting weaker. That ratcheted my interest in
The Melting world

Elevational Squeeze
PDO

Myths and misconceptions about polar bears. The mythbusting aint that much fun if you had no myth to begin with.

and closer to the glaciers:

Hiking Alaska with babies. In Small Feet Big land, the hiking family begins with Cook inlet and so does this novel Glaciers

The American Essay in the American Century

Brickwall in Family tree research

Recently I saw a request for a family tree search. That made me browse through this Advanced genealogy research techniques book.

I didnt realise that the professionals need to go through Icapgen accreditation specific for a region. This book uses the brickwall as a metaphor for dead end in research. The book seems so confident about success in getting the genealogy right. It includes examples of how they went about some brickwall cases. It is fascinating how even if the census officials get one of the details wrong, with the ties of spouse details, occupation and other documents you can recalibrate. Since the tree is linked, it can support and detect corruption of data in one link. Quite an architecture.

On a side note, a book with an interesting concept of Genealogy in American Literature.