Smallpox vaccination

Smallpox Vaccination in New York City, Late 40s

British propaganda films

From WWII, via boing boing:

propaganda movies

The German

Wonderful short film, by way of @brainpicker on Twitter.

The German

Go here

For information on the Internet blackout Google's SOPA-PIPA page.

Editing update

I have been continuing to work on the 1950 project but I'm still on chapter five sadly.

Advice from the monastic cell

And people think being a medievalist can't help you on the modem world!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/their-noonday-demons-and-ours.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateemb2

Still want to learn how to be a stylite though.

That was way too easy to accidentally unpublish. Republishing!

Editing update

So I am now working on Chapter 5 of editing for the NaNoWriMo 2010 novel, which has the horrific working title of "1950".

I've organized all the scenes through chapter 9.

I'm not quite sure if I have a good sense of what I am doing in this draft yet. It seems very trial and error in a lot of ways. I'd like to be more aware of what I'm doing so, you know, I can do it again. For the other two drafts.