Typology of victims - from the local police department’s standard incident report
I just started reading Teju Cole’s Open City. The novel has a this kind of limber allusive structure which seems to invite tagging. This is the first one.
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Years ago I read a story by Thomas King called “A Short History of Indians in America” in the now-defunct Story magazine. I have not read it in years but remember the “Smack! Smack!” part vividly. Searching for it on the web just now, I see that it is the title story in a collection King published later, but with “America” changed to “Canada.” Perhaps it was “Canada” to begin with, and the Story title was provincialized for the benefit of US readers (though that seems odd). In any case, this is the quote from Open City reminded me of King’s story:
… I had fallen into the habit of watching bird migrations from my apartment… On the days when I was home early enough from the hospital, I used to look out the window like someone taking auspices, hoping to see the miracle of natural migration.
Collection Of Television Tuning Tables
Livejournal page by trepang featuring a collection of television tuning tables from around the world from different times - oddly mesmerizing from a design perspective.
Full set here (in Russian) - English Google Translate Link Here
Source: trepang.livejournal.com
From Benjamin Shaykin, Google Hands, 2009, paperback, 6 x 9 in., 140 pages
A collection of problem pages found in Google Books.
Each page is reproduced at its original size, revealing multiple disruptions and errors introduced during Google’s scanning process: the scanner’s hand, holding down and obscuring the page; type and illustrations which have degraded and blurred to the point of illegibility; pages scanned while in the process of being turned; fold-out maps and charts that were scanned while closed.
The spreads are arranged according to the pagination of the original source, (so pages 10-11 from one book may be followed by 12-13 from another).
Andrew Norman Wilson, The Inland Printer – 164, 2012
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/14/conversation-andrew-norman-wilson/
Employee’s hand with significant distortion and imperfect, reaching autocorrect.
From various pages of An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean by George Keate and Henry Wilson (1788). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 27, 2007.
Source: books.google.com
The shadow of a hand dissolves the link to page 84.
From the table of contents to The Collapse of Capitalism by Herman Cahn (1919). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 5, 2008.
Source: books.google.com
“Apparently the front and back cover of the book.” An employee with orange nail polish and a cut on the ring finger.
Discovered by karinotsuka of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).
From The Beaux Strategem: A Comedy by Geroge Farquhar (1791). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.
Source: books.google.com
Kevin Huizenga
