Gordon Grove, from Hampshire, became increasing irritated by visits from Jehovah’s Witnesses. After they banged on the door on Christmas Day, 1974, he decided enough was enough.
He put up a neat, professionally drawn sign which said: “Our dogs are fed on Jehovah’s Witnesses”.
It disappeared a while later, perhaps stolen by JW’s, [...]

During the Commonwealth Games this year, a kind of polythene sculptured caterpillar took over part of the gardens at St Kilda beach. Called a Luminarium, it is a development of a public arts idea by Michael Artis, whose version is called Dreamspace.
I don’t know about the word “developed”, because they look pretty similar: [...]

From Ezekial, chapter 38:
“38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, [that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are [...]

I can’t add a single word to this:
“NEW DELHI: India’s central bank has been ordered to pay a former employee 10,000 rupees ($NZ346) in compensation after mistakenly declaring him dead and making him the butt of jokes, a newspaper has reported.
In 2000, Dharam Pal – a sweeper at the Reserve Bank of India offices in [...]

This is a stagey photo of a bunch of American aircraft designers posing by one of their greatest creations, which would go on to be the Starfighter. But it has huge implications for design in many different areas, for this is a very early version of a skunkworks.
In the screen industries, the most effective [...]

Schoolchildren in asphalted playground
“He found the experience of taking documentary photos particularly stressful and disliked the intrusiveness of his work. After the Second World War these anxieties persuaded him to all but abandon photography in favour of painting and textile design.”
Humphrey Spender was lurking around Bolton in Lancashire for a few weeks in 1937, [...]

Basil Kirchin is dead.
Nabakov told me. Kirchin was a pioneering English jazz drummer and film musician, who started playing with his father in December 1941 , and died a few weeks ago at the age of 77.
He has a fine obituary at Buzzle, with two paras that sucked me in:
“The best part [...]

The Pew researchers have hit the phones again, to discover the truth about blogging by tickling seven thousand American adults, including 4,753 internet users, of which 380 are bloggers. They carry a heavy burden of truth, but I trust our fellow bloggers.
“The most distinguishing characteristic of bloggers is their youth. More than half (54%) [...]

Bloggers in our world are mostly pretty articulate, or they don’t stay in our world. They just witter on to themselves, although the contrary case doesn’t hold. I know terrific sites with low audience numbers, and I hope they are in for the long haul.
At the same time, some bloggers are not too [...]

These images came upon me unexpectedly. A Russian compendium, an unknown name. Inspired pictures, to remind me that the illusioneering capabilities of Photoshop give us much more than simple playfulness.
Are they assembled in some Moscow apartment? Some consolation against the long nights in rusty Vladivostok? I have a name – Al Magnus – picked out [...]