Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

themadeshop:

“It became necessary, one day, at Willet’s point to destroy a worthless mule.”

Best sentence ever written in English??

donnymandible:

Worthless mules and advances in the science of photography…

“It became necessary, one day, at Willet’s point to destroy a worthless mule, and the subject was made the occasion of giving useful instruction to the military class there stationed.  The mule was placed in proper position before a photo camera and duly focused.  Upon the animal’s forehead a cotton bag was tied containing six ounces of dynamite.”

– Scientific American, 1881

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