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Apple WALT prototype phone hits ebay, the Apple phone of the early 1990s future
In the early 1990s, long before the iPhone or the iPad, Apple unveiled a phone called WALT (Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone) that at the time, was the landline phone of the future. This touchscreen marvel never went into production, but now a prototype WALT phone found its way on ebay for $8000.
Wizzy Active Lifestyle <3
The whole scroll, which is called He-Gassen (“The Fart Battle”) is just about people farting. Farting at other people, farting at cats, farting off of horses, farting into bags; just farting everywhere. Why? I couldn’t really tell you. I’ve tried to do some research but, believe it or not, academic literature on Japanese farting is surprisingly few and far between. […] I did find out enough to know that this isn’t the only farting scroll out there in existence – in fact, in the 90s, a collection of fart scrolls sold for $1,500 at the famous Christie’s auction house. I am not making this up.
The entire scroll can (and should) be seen here
FUDGE WIND
API 512c Knob (by oliverchesler)
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Victorian Tear Catcher
These items are a personal favorite of mine. I’ve always wanted to own one. They are Victorian tear catchers, usually used by a widowed bride. Upon the day of the funeral, the widow would collect her tears into this small vile, and all the tears she cried in the first year over the loss of her husband, she would capture in this vile she would wear upon her neck. And on the anniversary of his death, she pours the preserved tears atop his gravesite. It’s beautiful, tragic, and prolongs the suffering for ritualistic purposes. However, it’s quite poetic. If I were ever to lose someone close to me, I would do this.
i thought it was a fancy dildo
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Fountain of Diana of Ephesus, Villa d’Este, Tivoli (Rome, Italy).
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c86: 1900 Ivan Bilibin (Russian Illustrator, 1876-1942) ~ Mushroom
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19th century coal miners would traditionally take canaries in cages down into the mine with them. The birds would act as an early warning system for carbon monoxide gas. When the canary stopped singing the miner would know that he had to escape the chamber he was in.
This particular yellow canary was obviously a favoured pet as well as a working bird. Inscribed with the legend : “In Memory of Little Joe. Died November 3rd 1875. Aged 3 Years”(via Denis Forkas Kostromitin)
Major Nickle, Light and Colour, 1889
Editorial Illustration By John Alcorn, 1973
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Apple WALT prototype phone hits ebay, the Apple phone of the early 1990s future
