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08.22.2010
Ceci est une pipe (11)
pipethumb1

The perils of pipe smoking!

08.21.2010
2 Comments
Badge Merit (6)
radium_age

Earn HiLo merit badges!

08.18.2010
Eggheads (7)
egg-7

Athletic eggheads!

08.17.2010
Badge Merit (5)
badge5

Guardian Angel “flair.”

08.12.2010
3 Comments
Signal-to-Noise Ratio

A noise by any other name would sound as — signal.

08.11.2010
Ceci est une pipe (10)
pipe-10

The thinking man’s pastime.

08.09.2010
Eggheads (6)
egg-6

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine…

08.08.2010
3 Comments
Badge Merit (4)

Atomic Boy Scout Badge

08.04.2010
Ceci est une pipe (9)
pipe-9

How they smoked during the Radium Age.

08.01.2010
2 Comments
Eggheads (5)

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

07.31.2010
Ceci est une pipe (8)
pipe-8

Pipes across the political spectrum

07.29.2010
Badge Merit (3)
badge-3

Apparently, we do need stinkin’ badges.

07.28.2010
The $3 Windmills of Nebraska
barbour4

A vernacular clean technology of countryside contraptions.

07.26.2010
Ceci est une pipe (7)
pipe-7

Humphrey, Clark, and Patti.

07.23.2010
Badge Merit (2)

Nerd Merit Badges…

07.22.2010
Ceci est une pipe (6)
pipe6

Pipes and bikes, bikes and pipes.

07.17.2010
3 Comments
Tools (1)

The renewal of prehistoric technology.

07.17.2010
Eggheads (4)
egg4

Batman’s most egg-cellent foe.

07.16.2010
Chess Match (25)

Klassy chess!

07.14.2010
4 Comments
Star Wars semiotics

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

07.14.2010
Purple Exegetics

What does “Purple Rain” mean?

07.13.2010
Post-Romantics: 1824-33

The generation born 1824-33 is the first post-Romantic one.

07.12.2010
How I Wrote “Elastic Man”

Or is it “Plastic Man”?

07.06.2010
Original Decadents: 1834-43
redon thumb

The 1834-1843 cohort paved the way for Modernism.