Thursday, January 28, 2016

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Crown Heights Brooklyn's 23rd Regiment Armory

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.

A current shot, and one from the 19th century, of The 23rd Regiment Armory in Crown Heights. The building is now used as an NYC men's homeless shelter.



The person--Jim Henderson--who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

via NYC Public Library Digital Collections
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Personal Flamethrowers

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Two companies--at least--have begun selling "personal" flamethrowers.  XM 42 and Throwflame have made a big media splash, and Throwflame has already sold 1,656 of them!





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Monday, January 25, 2016

Zabibah and the King: Saddam Hussein's strange romance novel

By Jack Brummet


In 2000, Saddam Hussein wrote ZabÄ«bah wal-Malika romance novel, originally published anonymously in Iraq in 2000.  It was a best seller, selling over a million copies. The Iraqi publisher stole four paintings by a Canadian artist, Jonathon Earl Bowser, for illustrations, including putting his "The Awakening" painting on the cover. 

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Splash Data's 2015 list of the most common (a/k/a "worst") Passwords

By Jack Brummet, Security Ed.


Splash Data has just released their new list of the most common (a/k/a "worst") passwords:


  1. 123456 (unchanged from 2014) 
  2. password (unchanged) 
  3. 12345678 (Up 1) 
  4. qwerty (Up 1) 
  5. 12345 (Down 2) 
  6. 123456789 (Unchanged) 
  7. football (Up 3) 
  8. 1234 (Down 1) 
  9. 1234567 (Up 2) 
  10. baseball (Down 2) 
  11. welcome (New) 
  12. 1234567890 (New) 
  13. abc123 (Up 1) 
  14. 11111 (Up 1) 
  15. 1qaz2wsx (New) 
  16. dragon (Down 7) 
  17. master (Up 2) 
  18. monkey (Down 6) 
  19. letmein (Down 6) 
  20. login (New) 
  21. princess (New) 
  22. qwertyuiop (New) 
  23. solo (New) 
  24. passw0rd (New) 
  25. starwars (New)
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Monday, January 18, 2016

ATIT Reheated, from 2012: Images of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Jack Brummet, History Editor


If you run a search on Martin Luther King, Jr. images, you come up with millions of hits.  Of these, there is a core group of about fifty or so that are ubiquitous.   Here are some of our favorite photos of MLK, along with some of the many hundreds of postage stamps created in his honor; a couple of shots of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C.; and a short video on the National Archives holdings of MLK photographs.

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Two uneasy partners:  Martin with his frenemy; President Lyndon Baines Johnson










 One more shot of LBJ/MLK

I have never been able to find out more about this photo. I don't 
really know if Martin knew his way around a pool table or not...


What if?

Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl, and MLK.  This shot was taken at a 1964 free speech event.

Bayard Rustin with Martin


MLK with Coretta

The "I Have A Dream" Speech

 Speech in Washington, 1963

 MLK with Malcolm X





Some selected MLK postage stamps:




 









Photos of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C.:





 A background video on the photographs of MLK, Jr in The National Archives:

 

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