Mt. Pleasant: Where Realty Values Are Rapidly Advancing Mt. Pleasant homes advertisement in the Washington Times – April 19th, 1913 Going to open houses today? Check this out. Here’s a great old advertisement from 1913. These are homes for sale in Mt. Pleasant, near the street car line. I’m not sure that these are still around because there doesn’t appear to be a home at that address any more. Like this:Be the first to like this post. Continue reading →
And how do photographers know that I'll need a picture of the sun streaming through clouds? There are not many occasions when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes with money and red caviar on a white background. But there may well be one occasion when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes with money and red caviar on a white background. This being the Internet, actually, there will probably be two or three. For such occasions, when they arise, your best bet is to turn directly to an image service like Shutterstock. The site, as the documentation for its upcoming IPO makes clear, is a web community in the manner of a ... Continue reading →
And how do photographers know that I'll need a picture of the sun streaming through clouds? There are not many occasions when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes with money and red caviar on a white background. But there may well be one occasion when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes with money and red caviar on a white background. This being the Internet, actually, there will probably be two or three. For such occasions, when they arise, your best bet is to turn directly to an image service like Shutterstock. The site, as the documentation for its upcoming IPO makes clear, is a web community in the manner of a ... Continue reading →
I’d cite the hoary adage about herding cats, but even cats speak the same language. My readers live in Sierra Leone, Germany, Spain, Australia, China and Singapore, to name just a few far-flung countries. Oh, and we don’t meet once a week to engage in high-minded literary discourse. The conversation never ends. As soon as the New Yorkers are going to sleep, the Australians are reaching for their books. All of this is courtesy of 1book140, a Twitter book club I started last May in conjunction with The Atlantic magazine. Here’s how it works: Every month we pick a literary genre (in March, for instance, we chose science fiction and read “Neuromancer,” by William Gibson, the following month) and solicit nominations. After a few days ... Continue reading →
As part of a paper on consumer individuality, researchers observed fashion at Princeton University. Jonah Berger and Cindy Chan of Wharton and Leaf Van Boven of the University of Colorado, Boulder took pictures of students from a preppy/jocky eating club and a hipster/alternative eating club, and then blurred out the faces. These pictures were shown to participants, who were asked to identify what club students belonged to and how unique their clothing was. The results were fascinating. First, participants were able to identify what club students belonged to with 85 percent accuracy. Second, it was just as easy to identify what club the "unique" students belonged to as the "non-unique" students. In other words there were multiple levels of social coding, where students could appear ... Continue reading →
