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MsFrisby · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: Interesting Link Dump

This is for the stuff that isn't pictures or video, but doesn't really need a whole thread made for it, either. Just random bits of this and that you stumble upon that you'd like to share.

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060810/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_arts_fringe_puppets
(this reminds me of that conversation we had in the car, Sam)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/jetski.sturgeon.ap/index.html

http://www.popgadget.net/2006/07/ds_cooking_navi_1.php

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/50971
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MsFrisby · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:28 am Post subject:

http://www.brillig.com/lego/starry_night/
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Yorick · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Interesting Link Dump

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

A lot of people may have seen this, as it's pretty old but my Anthropology teacher showed it to the class and I thought it was a very interesting viewpoint.

Nacirema

Dro · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3763

There are some crazy cultures in the world.

trustedfaith · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Interesting Link Dump

Yorick · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: Interesting Link Dump

MsFrisby · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

I just got a catalog in the mail for an extrmely manly company. There are all kinds of items in here that I know would be very well recieved. Now, if only I had some money. Very Happy

http://www.duluthtrading.com/
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MsFrisby · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject:

They have a smugglers belt! Neat!
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8567

Even though I KNOW the deal behind the Nacirema essay, I totally absolutely still wanted to tear it apart from a standpoint of anthropological professionalism. For instance, you can point out the subjective and incorrect apriorism of common practices as being centrally spiritual, which distorts the true nature of their common practices.

The author's supposition of practical and hygienic acts as being fundamentally religious and ritually ceremonial was particularly egregious and demonstrably incorrect! feh feh feh

Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7561

ritually ceremonial, eh?
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8567

And religiously spiritual, and formally decorous!

Natashabi · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: Tejas

I wasn't alive in the mid 50s, so I'm not sure what the bathroom habits were like at that point in time. You are correct that the essay does leave much to be desired as an anthropological piece. I may not have classified the bathroom habits of this particular study group as a religous observance but the amount of time spent in the bathroom and using the various utensils therein would definately show some sort of devotion to self. Perhaps a form of egomania.

Anyway... It's still funny.

So meh.

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4710