Digital Tomb

An online repository for ephemera of note useful to me.

An Ethnography of Jungle and DnB in 90s/00s Video Games (Jonas Martinez, 2023)

Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies' Externalities? (David Rosenthal, 2016)

Eulogy for a Gambler (Anthony Bruno, 2022)

Gimme Your Answers: An Interview With Native America (Alicia Atout, 2013)

More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen Debacle.* + The Hiveswap Fiasco

Jesus's Vagina: A Medieval Meditation (Emily Swan, 2019)

Just Asking (David Foster Wallace, 2007)

Rape Case Unfolds Online and Divides Steubenville (The New York Times, 2012)

Remote Control (Sarah Marshall, 2014)

Crush Point (John Seabrook, 2011)

The Truck Stop Killer (Vanessa Veselka, 2012)

The Falling Man (Tom Junod, 2021)

Christ Child - Wikipedia. The Christ Child, also known as Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, the Divine Child and Child Jesus refers to Jesus Christ from his nativity until age 12.

Crown of Immortality - Wikipedia. The Crown of Immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as a laurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars (often a crown, tiara, halo or aureola). The Crown appears in a number of Baroque iconographic and allegoric works of art to indicate the wearer's immortality.

Dagonet - Wikipedia. Dagonet (also known as Daguenet, Daguenes, Daguenez, Danguenes, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. His depictions and characterisations variously portray a foolish and cowardly knight, a violently deranged madman, to the now-iconic image of King Arthur's beloved court jester.

Daigo Fukuryu Maru - Wikipedia. Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. The crew suffered acute radiation syndrome (ARS) for a number of weeks after the Bravo test in March. 

Demon core - Wikipedia. The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. It was manufactured by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. nuclear weapon development effort during World War II. It was a subcritical mass that weighed 6.2 kilograms (14 lb) and was 8.9 centimeters (3.5 in) in diameter.

Downwinders - Wikipedia. Downwinders were individuals and communities in the intermountain West between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.

Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia. The epic is regarded as a foundational work in religion and the tradition of heroic sagas, with Gilgamesh forming the prototype for later heroes like Heracles (Hercules) and the epic itself serving as an influence for Homeric epics. It has been translated into many languages and is featured in several works of popular fiction.

Finding in the Temple - Wikipedia. The Finding in the Temple, also called Christ among the Doctors or the Disputation (the usual names for the subject in art), is an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a canonical gospel.

Immanentize the eschaton - Wikipedia. In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880-1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism.

Linguistic determination - Wikipedia. Linguistic determinism is the strong form of linguistic relativity, which argues that individuals experience the world based on the structure of the language they habitually use. Since the 20th century, linguistic determinism has largely been discredited by studies and abandoned within linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields.

List of episodes in Against the Day - everybodywiki. The following is a list of episodes in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day.

Madonna (art) - Wikipedia. In art, a Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna 'my lady' (archaic). The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes especially in Eastern Orthodox iconography, often known after the location of a notable icon of the type, such as the Theotokos of Vladimir, Agiosoritissa, Blachernitissa, etc., or descriptive of the depicted posture, as in Hodegetria, Eleusa, etc.

Madonna of Peace (Pinturicchio) - Wikipedia. The painting, nearly unanimously praised by critics, shows the Madonna seated with the Baby Jesus in her lap. In his left hand, he holds a globus cruciger, a cross-bearing orb that symbolizes his divine power over the earth. With his right hand, he gives benediction to the kneeling client below, who is represented in profile with detailed attention to its facial features (the brow furrows, veins, and the consistency of the loose hair). That detail reveals Pinturicchio's study of Flemish painting.

Madonna with the Christ Child Writing - Wikipedia. The painting is derived from the Madonna of Peace (c. 1490), a simplification for a less acculturated commissioner, perhaps a private family. The Virgin sits on a kind of cask, and is offering a book to the Child, who writes on it. The garments of the Child are perhaps inspired by the late Byzantine mosaics seen by Pinturicchio in Rome.

Medella­n Cartel - Wikipedia. The Medella­n Cartel was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellan, Colombia, that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. 

Meiji Restoration - Wikipedia. The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: romanized: Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ruling emperors before the Meiji Restoration, the events restored practical abilities and consolidated the political system under the Emperor of Japan.

Melbourne gangland killings - Wikipedia. The Melbourne gangland killings were the murders of 36 underworld figures in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between January 1998 and August 2010. The murders were retributive killings involving underworld groups. The deaths caused a power vacuum within Melbourne's criminal community, and rival factions fought for control and influence. Many of the murders remain unsolved, although detectives from the Purana Taskforce believe that Carl Williams was responsible for at least ten of them.

Merry Pranksters - Wikipedia. The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. During this time they met many of the guiding lights of the 1960s cultural movement and presaged what are commonly thought of as hippies with odd behavior, tie-dyed and red, white, and blue clothing, and renunciation of normal society, which they dubbed The Establishment.

Oikeisis - Wikipedia. In Stoic ethics, oikeiesis is a technical term variously translated as "appropriation," "orientation," "familiarization," "affinity," "affiliation," and "endearment." 

Oneiric (film theory) - Wikipedia. In film theory, the term oneiric refers to the depiction of dream-like states or to the use of the metaphor of a dream or the dream-state in the analysis of a film.

Paean (god) - Wikipedia. In Greek mythology, Paean was the physician of the gods.

Saint - Wikipedia. In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term saint depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation.

Telesphorus (mythology) - Wikipedia. In ancient Greek religion, Telesphorus was a minor child-god of healing. He was a possible son of Asclepius and frequently accompanied his sister Hygieia. He was depicted as a dwarf whose head was always covered with a cowl hood or cap.

General

SortYourMusic

DFW audio archive

Internet Girl

LuYang - Vimeo

New Vegas but Mr. House is my friend Aaron at Fallout New Vegas - mods and community

NRCHA Bridle Horse Report LTE HS AO 11152014

Fandom

Anime's Apocalypse: Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha

Fallout Bible. "Some of the lore that really... was written, y'know, back in the day. It makes sense and we use that and put it in our games. We don't just assume that everything in the Bible is canon. We have to take it step-by-step inside. It's a judgement call."

Fallout Universe Map. A fan-made Google Maps shrine detailing fictional locations in the Fallout franchise.

For Posterity, Bill Bolin and "The Talk" "So a guy named Bill Bolin (pleocoma) did music for a lot of Homestuck's early flash pages, but had a falling out with Andrew Hussie and the rest of the music team. pleocoma had posted a number of unfinished Beatdown remixes in the music team thread without specifically marking them as such, and Andrew then used them for the page "[S] Rose and Dave: Shut up and jam" Apparently fed up with a perceived lack of professionalism on the project, the text of his infamous response in the thread he made is quoted below the cut."

Infinite Atlas

Infinite Boston

Infinite Jest and Don Gately: A Story of Addiction, Recovery and Redemption

Page 49/50: narrative insertion and the puppetry of focalisation

lime-bloods

The Psychedelic Swamp page @ r/DrDog

Timeline - 2b2t Wiki