Friday Links

Three fun links for the last day of the week:

The Museum of Russian Anti-Alcohol Posters, dating from the '80s campaign against excessive drink.

Footnotes to History, a guide to ephemeral nations.

Gang Rule, devoted to the history of organized crime in New York.

Comments

[Linky Dinky]

Polish Posters, not only are polish cinematographers a lot better at what they do than anyone else, so are their posters designers.

Nation Master, "a handy way to graphically compare nations."

Gangs of New York, a look at the Five Points immortalized in Scorsese's epic depiction of brutality and corruption once upon a time in an earlier, freer American era.

[Bloghater]

Why in heaven's name do all blogs (except H&R) have to be such pupil-straining squint fests?

Clicking View > TextSize never helps either.

[Anonymous]

http://www.bloodyspew.com/
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

[Anonymous]

http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/anncoulter.php
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dmilam1.html

[Anonymous]

Brighton Beach, NY combines all 3 exhibits - drunk ex-Soviet members of Russian mob.

[Anonymous]

note to above: "sites" = "exhibits" (long nite)

[R.Cruso]

Still perusing ... but wondering if "Nation Master" mentions the 1980's libertarian quest for its own island in the Pacific -- an effort that was eventually foiled when unnamed members of Congress sic'd an aboriginal army of a nearby island onto the freedom seekers.

Also wondering if "Nation Master" will have a future mention of Liberated Nebraska, after it actually happens. (See ...
http://www.freestateproject.com/index.htm)

[Bloghater]

Trepidations.

Thanks, Mike! Mozilla has been recommended to me before. But I'm so used to IE-6 ... (you know how it is with formed habits ...)

I'm just wondering what I'll be giving up by saying bye to IE.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the Pacific Island quest is there.

[Michael Geary]

Bloghater, I share your pet peeve. What on earth are the designers of these things thinking?

Anyway, there is a cure. Try the Mozilla Firebird browser:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html#install

In Firebird, you can change the text size from the View menu or with Ctrl+Plus, and it always works.

I think Netscape does this too, but I've never cared for Netscape. OTOH, Mozilla Firebird is easy for an IE user to get used to.

[bloghater]

Driving me crazy!

"Yeah, the Pacific Island quest is there."

- It is?? - Where!?

I've been all over that "Footnotes to History" site looking for it. I typed "Pacific," "Pacific Islands," "Libertarian," -- nothing.

A search on "Libertarian" returned only Abaco, which wasn't it.

So, Anon, could you be more specific, please? What letter to click on the alphabet? And what to look for under that given letter?

Thanks, man.

[James Erwin]

Bloghater:

You're looking for Minerva, which actually took place in 1971/72.

Interesting tidbit my further reseach has turned up: one of the main financial backers was Sir John Templeton, of the Templeton Foundation.

Oh, and Jesse, thanks for the link.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the pointer to The Phoenix Foundation James! That's rich 😀

[bloghater]

OK!

Now we're cookin'!

Thanks, James!

Sure appreciate it.

(See ya on the other side.)

[bloghater]

PS. FINAL NOTE.

Having just read about Mike Oliver?s exploits (or at least his attempts at independence) on Abaco, Minerva, Espiritu Santo, and the Republic of Vemarana ? I?ve come to the conclusion that our nemeses ain?t governments, but daft mobs.

Vox populi, Vox ignoramus.

(What a pity.)

[Mario Profaca]

This is just to inform you that The Memory Hole
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.mov
copy of the video, mentioned below, taken of Bush
on September 11 - disapeared from internet.

The Memory Hole moved to the new URL
http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/welcome.html
but there you could not find
neither short nor long (12Mb) version
of that movie clip any more.

Mario Profaca
Mario's Cyberspace Station
The Global Intelligence News Portal
http://mprofaca.cro.net