This is an 1840 butcher shop model. Note the exquisite detail down to the sawdust and blood on the floor. Such items weren’t uncommon and were sold as promotional displays for shops or, yes, as child playlets.
Daily Archives: August 6, 2012
Missile Defense Agency Addicted to Conspiraporn!
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency warned its employees and contractors last week to stop using their government computers to surf the Internet for pornographic sites, according to the agency’s executive director. In a one-page memo, Executive Director John James Jr. wrote that in recent months government employees and contractors were detected ‘engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network… Individuals identified as violating the rules face referral for ‘appropriate’ disciplinary action, he wrote. They put ‘their security clearances in jeopardy, and are subject to suspension and removal from federal service or MDA sponsored contracts.’ Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said in an e-mail that the memo was written in response to ‘a few people downloading material from some websites that were known to have had virus and malware issues.
VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–
Playing Cards as Weapons
This fellow hopes to break a world record throwing playing cards with vegetable-slicing speed and accuracy. If you’d like to learn this useful skill, you might start by reading Ricky Jay’s 1977 classic book “Cards As Weapons.”
VIA: –BOING BOING–
The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis
The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis is a theory originated by Mac Tonnies to explain UFO’s, and what are commonly called aliens, in a new way. It was developed in his blog, and later published posthumously. It proposes that these phenomena are explained by mysterious and secretive races of earthly origin. These races would have existed upon Earth for at least as long as humanity, and are described as presenting themselves as extraterrestrials or occult beings.
CONSPIRAPORN! 