CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
Here's a precursor to the "dancing pigs" of computer security: "Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time" (Gary McGraw and Edward Felten, Securing Java, 1999). From North Adams Normal School's Normalogue yearbook, 1914. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
"Once upon a time, when Brown and Waltz were studying zoötamy, suddenly—." From Olivet Nazarene University's Aurora yearbook, 1917. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
"A probable combustion," from Elizabeth College's Caps and Belles yearbook, 1901. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
"I can't emphasize too strongly the need for a good breakfast," she said as skeletons looked on. From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1958. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
