Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwv6lOLhz1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/05/the-200-tall-woman-and-the-history-of-skirt-lengthsinteresting-images.html">The History of Skirt Lengths</a> from <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/">Ptak Science Books</a>:</p> <blockquote>This graph illustrating the history of skirt lengths in the United States is oddly interesting and appealing, a job well done. I like that the graph lines fairly well reveal the amount of leg shown by the rising and lowering hemlines, measuring the height above the ankle from bottom to top.</blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/18210496943http://notes.husk.org/post/18210496943Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:37:05 +0000chartdressfashionimageinfographicptak science booksskirt lengthvintagewomenvisualisation“The scientists said that [the women] were better suited than men to go into space, and some thought they would be the first to go because they were smaller than the male astronauts and needed smaller life support systems. It was not to be, as politicians and Nasa quashed the notion and went for male-only astronauts.”<br/><br/> - <em>Jess McCabe in a mini-review of <a href="http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/08/mini_review_she">She Should Have Gone to the Moon</a> for <a href="http://www.thefword.org.uk/">The F-Word</a>. The comments mention a BBC documentary, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/moonlandings/7618.shtml?all=1&id=7618">Right Stuff, Wrong Sex</a>, available at the BBC Archive site.</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/169715044http://notes.husk.org/post/169715044Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:34:53 +0100quotefilmreviewspaceastronautswomenfeminismvia:geekfeminist.org