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Blixa wrote:http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/ A guide to the entrances to Hell found in the U.K. Good, useful information.

The only good, useful information not there is just what, exactly, they mean by "entrances to Hell."

What the, um, Hell is that website supposed to depict?

Sorry Shades, so damn sorry.

Blixa wrote:Sorry Shades, so damn sorry.

That doesn't answer my question.

So, since it appears I'll have to guess, it's a collection of places which local folklore/superstition claim to be portals to Hell--right?

Dr. Shades wrote:So, since it appears I'll have to guess, it's a collection of places which local folklore/superstition claim to be portals to Hell--right?

They look to be authentic.

Sorry not to reply sooner. I've been waiting to get back into the website after being shut out for 15 hours or so. I had tried to change which email was associated with my account --- I put in this email I use most often and my password--- then I got a message that said the email had been changed but now the account would be inactive until I got an email or something from the administrators. I thought I'd get an automatic email with a link to reset the account maybe, but no.

Why would things be set up like this? If I use my password, why can't I change something in my account without getting
locked out? I tried to make a second account so I could get in and pm someone, but that required some kind of nonautomatic email from the administrator, too. Seems strange for a board that prides itself for letting anyone in.

Anyway, I thought it would be a nice public service/fun thread to start an exchange of interesting and fun links. I put up a lot, with annotations, and worked over the list quite a bit. I thought it would be at least something I could contribute beyond the few one sentence posts I've been making lately.

I haven't been contributing much recently because I've been rather burned out on the sheer filthiness of the bullying, ignorant and nasty posts of a few contributors. They may be a minority but when at least one person consistently makes threats about damned with people off board, then I have to wonder.

Anyway I thought this would be more or less lighthearted and fun. Not everyone shares the same sense of humor, but I thought that "the humorous" was rather recognizable. Especially about something as absurd and silly as catelog of actual entrances to Hell.

I took the list down to rework it, but then my lock out occured. So I wasn't able to reconfigure it and now it may be pointless. *sigh*

Blixa wrote:Why would things be set up like this? If I use my password, why can't I change something in my account without getting locked out?

That shouldn't have happened. Computer voodoo, I guess.

I tried to make a second account so I could get in and pm someone, but that required some kind of nonautomatic email from the administrator, too. Seems strange for a board that prides itself for letting anyone in.

I hate to make anyone jump through any hoops, but it's all in the name of keeping the porn spammers out. If there was a way to ensure that only humans would try to register, I'd jump on it.

Anyway, I thought it would be a nice public service/fun thread to start an exchange of interesting and fun links. I put up a lot, with annotations, and worked over the list quite a bit. I thought it would be at least something I could contribute beyond the few one sentence posts I've been making lately.

It was a good idea. I'm glad you're going to re-post the list, since I hadn't perused all of them yet.

At any rate, I went in and fixed things with your account. Hopefully you'll have no further problems. If you do, then don't hesitate to e-mail me at: drshades1 @ gmail . com

Anyway I thought this would be more or less lighthearted and fun. Not everyone shares the same sense of humor, but I thought that "the humorous" was rather recognizable. Especially about something as absurd and silly as catelog of actual entrances to Hell.

Ahh. I thought it was a local folklore thing.

I took the list down to rework it, but then my lock out occured. So I wasn't able to reconfigure it and now it may be pointless. *sigh*

No, it's certainly not pointless. Please give it another shot.

In the spirit of Shady Acres Jukebox, I propose an exchange of interesting links and websites. I thought about just giving the URL to my de.licio.us links, but that would be too hard to extract nuggets from. So I made up a short annotated list of favorites: everything from topic blogs to commercial websites. Maybe you'll find something useful and interesting here and in return post some of your own favorite places on the interwebs. 
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http://www.boingboing.net/ --- BoingBoing. Many here may already know this ur blog. All kinds of interesting things cross this website daily. They have their inexplicable fetishes (all things Disney, ugh) but I find something here everyday.

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ --- Bibliodyssey is a mind-bendingly inclusive archive of book illustration harvested from library and museum archives around the globe. Absolutely fascinating and amazing and inspiring and the kind of thing the internet was invented for. And best of all, Pee Cay was able to spin this off into a book. His posts on how this came about and how he was able to secure permissions to publish the harvested images is an interesting chapter in the ongoing copyfight.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ --- BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh's blog on landscape, architecture and public space is an endless inspiration to me. If I had a blog, this is what I’d like it to look like. When I finish with my current western americana project, I'll be turning to the politics of monumental space and examining representations of landscape and nature as well as uses of public monuments and monumental art. Like Pee Cay, Geoff has also been able to publish a book based on his blog.

http://pruned.blogspot.com/ --- Pruned, another great landscape/architecture blog. More landscape/nature-y than BLDGBLOG, but like any great blog a solid source of links to similar themed websites.

http://www.coudal.com/ --- Coudal Partners are a Chicago based design collective with a very magazine-y website. Lots of interesting tidbits here, as well as examples of their interesting collaborative projects (like their work with The Pixies and Dead Can Dance).

http://www.alvinlustig.org/ --- Beautiful overview of the work of design master, Alvin Lustig. His book cover designs are classic. 

http://www.designboom.com/eng/ --- Design Boom is european design ezine with many wonderful features including fascinating exhibits and articles (check out the one on "poor jewelry"). They also run online design courses ("design aerobics") that are one of the best examples of online education I know. I took one last summer (toy design) and may do another course this summer. One of the projects I had to do on my course was redesign the board game "Monopoly." I did a version called, "Polygamy." 

http://www.coudal.com/moom/ --- The Museum of Online Museums, a permanent feature of Coudal Partners’s website is a great review guide to digitized museum archives and online exhibitions of all kinds from the “serious” to the ephemeral. I should put in a plug here for the Library of Congress, though I don't have a separate link to it. The wealth of material available through their website is astonishing and their educational exhibitions wonderful as well. The MOOM has links to a wide array of image galleries, galleries and themed online exhibitions. Some, like Plan59.com, even offer quality prints of their collections.

http://worldofkane.blogspot.com/index.html --- The World of Kane, a great personal obsession blog that covers modernist style, design and popular culture. Will Kane is especially knowledgeable about 60's europop. 

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/ --- Today's Inspiration is a blog devoted to the magazine/advertising/commercial illustration from the 40's and 50's (and a bit beyond). I've been corresponding with Leif for a few years. He's helped me track down some illustrations from The Saturday Evening Post that were burned into my memory as a child. I've also used material from his blog in class since he's written up virtual mini-essays on various ad campaigns (youth/gender in the Coke/Pepsi "war" for example). 

http://paperforest.blogspot.com/ --- Paperforest. I love papercrafts; this group blog by four artists covers not only interesting projects and designs (for children and adults) but also paper-based serious art. I guess I should say that this is about “building” things out of paper (including paper automata!) and not all paper-related crafts like...ahem...”scrapbooking.”

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ --- Dark Roasted Blend: one of those wonderful "everything" blog rolls. All kinds of interesting things drift through here, but I use it mostly as a source of interesting photos and imagery. For some reason they’re really good with galleries of rusted things and I like rusted things.

http://www.oobject.com/ --- Oobject. A pretty sui generis website/blog. Its just a lovely and provocative series of sets of "objects" (which can even include places. Check out the set on “spectacular sewers”...don’t miss the Tokyo storm drains!!!)

http://www.squareamerica.com/ --- Square America: a gorgeous website devoted to a personal collection of vernacular photography. DO NOT MISS THE SERIES LABELED "THE PARTY." Seriously. Its wonderful.

http://swapatorium.typepad.com/ --- Swapatorium is another blog which features, but not exclusively, vernacular and ephemeral photography. Currently on its front page is some found mug shot photo of a jail escapee, oddly enough from Box Elder County! He’s kinda cute, too. Hope he made it to freedom.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/ --- The blog from the best radio station in the country. Lots of stray interesting stuff, not all of it about music, either. 

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ --- Morbid Anatomy: a blog at the intersection of Medicine and Art. Lots of fascinating obscure history and ooky things to look at. 

http://utahpictures.com/ --- Beautiful photography of mountains and hiking and climbing routes around Utah. I use it to send me on binges of homesickness and nostalgia. I hope to hook up with this guy on my next visit to Utah to hike Frary Peak together. Check out Question Mark Wall (in the Lone Peak section) if you've never seen it live. 

http://www.krazydad.com/visco/ --- Nice, fun display of one man's collection of beautiful sci-fi paperbacks. 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ --- The Sartorialist. Beautiful, mostly street portrait driven, blog about personal style. Scott Schuman parlayed this blog into a photography career: on the strength of his amateur blog he’s been hired to shoot for Vogue, GQ and other big mainstream fashion magazines. A book will probably transpire, eventually.

https://www.nau.com/homepage/index.jsp --- This is for shopping interest. Nau is an oregon based clothing design collective. Most of this is meant to be both outdoor gear and wearable everyday fashion. They have good seasonal sales and most of what I currently wear to teach in comes from Nau. 

http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/edit/index.php --- I love stockings, tights and hosiery of all kinds. I'm near fetishistic about over-the-knee and thigh-highs and sock garters. Sock Dreams has incredible merchandise, good prices and free shipping and handling. 

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ --- Cool Tools. Like the name suggests lots of useful tips about products and tools for every kind of project or situation. I’ve found useful information here about glue, shoes, and a wonderful product called “Tibet Almond Stick” that fixes scratches in wood floors and furniture.
http://www.someecards.com --- As they say, "For when you care enough to hit send." Free ecards for just about every occasion. 

http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor --- A fun program that lets you design animated quasi-organic, quasi-mechanical critters adjusted for various forms of gravity and speed. 

http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/ A guide to the entrances to Hell found in the U.K. Good, useful information. 

http://www.golimbs.com/products/products.php?id=60100 --- Limbs and Things are purveyors of fine medical simulations. Its expensive, but just looking at the Prostate and Rectal Examination Trainer is probably good enough.

I hope you don't go away completely Blixa....I'll cry. I swear. :( And can you bring your boon companion back to the board please? I miss him too.

Hey Blixa,

Thanks for the list of links. It'll give me something new to look at while I sit here and do little of nothing all day.

I hope you stay too...