Born today, few happy birthdays, Edgar Allan Poe

January 19 is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, back in 1809 of course. Poe achieved much without much reward for it, and suffered tragic circumstances much of his life. He was perhaps the incarnation of his own worst enemy. Washington Post article noting the end of mysterious Poe Toaster who has visited Poe’s grave this day …

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Wait For The Blackout

Today wikipedia.org has gone dark. Also the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other websites have partially “censored” their own pages with redaction-style black boxes. This is to highlight the impending SOPA and PIPA bills which are before the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Wikipedia.org says in a statement appearing on their …

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back to the future

culturalproduct.com is undergoing some renovation. Future content will likely be quite different from past, mostly local, material. Local content and links have been removed. Any local projects previously connected to culturalproduct.com can be found at their own unique url as always.