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« Anti-Drudge No. 2, Iraq speech reax; PhotoCon finalists; Borges, poets' mp3s; Don't boil in Ziplocs | Main | Video: Patriots sing karoke; Mp3: Chargers' song; Peyton Manning joke » January 13, 2007What Iran looks like; How America looked in the '40s: Homepage in newspaper's windowsIran today: Discovering Iran (photos). Stunning photos of Tehran and environs -- buildings, people, public art, nature, people napping in a traffic jam -- fresh. Here are a few, but the set is more than these, and well worth a click:
When American men wore hats: At the interesting photo blog knuttz.net, a large collection of USA Vintage Pictures (1939-1943). America is quieter, emptier, dustier. This photo shows the Brockton (Mass.) Enterprise displaying hand-lettered headlines and leads in its windows. (This is a detail of a larger photo.) Update: Click this link, or the photo above, for a larger image that a click makes even larger -- large enough to read much of the news. That storefront window is the forerunner of a news site's homepage. The "links" -- headlines without their stories -- are understood to go to the full paper. People come by frequently to see what's new. The hawking newsboy of old movies could deliver news alerts on your mobile: (The Firefox extension Image Zoom can magnify or reduce any image right in the Web page, on the fly. It's free, of course.) Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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