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Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810. "LOVE at FIRST SIGHT or A PAIR of HOTTENTOTS":



In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was London's most famous curiosity. Famed for her exquisite physique - in particular her shapely bottom - she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. But this tragic young South African woman was also a symbol of the abolished slave trade, exploitation and colonialism. In this scintillating and vividly written book, the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life is traced for the first time.


Hottentots and prostitutes



The Guardian Flakes



Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu


Let’s do the Time War again – Steve Peek’s time-travelling board game published by Yaquinto in 1979 (top), reprinted in 1980 with a new John Robinson cover (bottom):


"Time War" is a tactical level simulation of a possible future where governments, using the ability to travel into time, attempt to control the present day world by altering history to their advantage. The players assume the roles of opposing Time Bureau Chiefs and seek to use their resources on hand to gain complete control of their present day world by altering history and destroying the opposing players' forces.

Time War: A Game of Time Travel and Conflict (1979)


Virtual Reality from 1990, the "Eye phone" as demonstrated by the "father of VR" Jaron Lanier:



Lanier and his cohort Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. Lanier an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical. A
collector of rare musical instruments of which he owns over a thousand. He assisted in composing the soundtrack to the documentary film The Third Wave (2007).


Book cover of the day...


AbeBooks


Don't mess with Texas has a new wrinkle...


Elon Musk Flees To Billionaires’ New Court

Google the "people's court" (Volksgerichtshof) from 1930s Germany.

Yep, history rhymes.


Real world comedy with a purpose...


Westarctica: The micronation with a real-world purpose


More kinder trauma...beware of C.H.U.D. - Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers...






(You Got To Pray To The Lord) When You See Those Flying Saucers: The Buchanan Brothers [1947]:

You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day
It’s a sign there’s no doubt of the trouble that’s about
So I say my friends you’d better start to pray

They’re a terrifying sight as they fly on day and night
It’s a warning that we’d better mend our ways
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day