The many stories of ‘Passing Poston’

There are, at the very least, seven unique stories packed within Joe Fox and James Nubile’s documentary Passing Poston: An American Story: The story of Executive Order 9066 and the 1942 Japanese American internment; the story of Poston War Relocation Center, an Arizona internment camp—the largest of the nation’s 10 [...]

There’s this from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: an obituary for Dr. Frank M. Berger, 94 and creator of the mood-alterer Miltown (and whose very name sounds like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reference if you say it fast).
In the years after World War II (cue documentary music), Berger and his fellow chemists “synthesized a series [...]

Maybe that’s overstating it, but this is still a really, really, really bad time to be building houses–unless you plan to live in them all. Which is not really how being a developer works.
According to an Associated Press story in today’s Press-Telegram, sales of new homes plunged 26.4 percent last year–2007–by the largest amount on [...]

The Library of Congress brings us all a bit closer with the unveiling of their newest web-based tool–3,000 prints (out of the library’s collection of about 14 million photos) have been digitized and uploaded to Flickr. This digital collection runs through some of the library’s most popular photos and happens to house a number of [...]

A collection of advertisements from postwar Poland reveals hidden messages

Teeming with clowns, zebras, thespians and ballerinas, post-World War II Polish posters look just like old posters—which is exactly what you should see. At first. Beautiful as these posters are—nodding to Peter Max’s vivid forms and colors, Fernando Botero’s luminosity—their pulchritude sometimes runs second to a [...]