The Best Website On The Planet
Every once in a great while you stumble across something on the Internet that reminds you how much your world has been transformed by this medium. As a lifetime library rat whose idea of Paradise is a place crammed to the ceiling with boxes of books and sounds and images and curiosities, there is nothing so satisfying as bumping into someone in cyberspace who is obsessively working away at a crazed and impossible blueprint for my personal Elysian Fields. Whoever is behind Speckled Paint is building --has built-- a wondrous Babel bazaar full of art, photography, advertising, medical curiosities, weird science, and all manner of splendid anomaly and exotica. It's the most visually stimulating and exhausting website I've ever come across, and I can't recommend it highly enough. The writing is damn curious and entertaining as well, even if it necessarily takes a backseat to the incredible archive of images. Here's a characteristic example (and you'll have to go to the site to find out the second thing alluded to in this entry):
I overheard two things on the radio that I would like to note for further thought at another time. Firstly—though not necessarily in an organized sequence—a BBC reporter acknowledged in an almost wistful way that: "It is easy to be blinded by the gee-whizery of it all."
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