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graveyard of DOOM index < | > Diagram is an excellent online journal of poetry that also publishes freakyweird diagrams from old textbooks. The archives are really worth flipping through, for the poems and the pictures. My personal favourites from the diagram archives include "The Structure of Anxiety" and "Possible Changes in a Couple's Relationship to be Considered in Diagnosing Love". I forgot to mention this when it happened, but the latest issue, which is still up, has two diagrams that I sent in. One's from a book on Japanese flower arrangement that I bought for a dollar at the Traralgon Salvation Army last year. The other's from an old kid's science book that I've since thrown away, but I used this page in an issue of Duck Fat. It depicts a "futuristic" machine known only as the "pedipulator". Back in 1964 the top scientists of the day were phoning all the newspapers and saying that it was only a matter of time before the pedipulator replaced the automobile as the primary mode of transport, especially on the soon-to-be-completed Moon Colonies. But just like the falsely-promised jetpack, this pedipulatorrific future never came to pass. At least, not in this universe. We can only hope that in time superstring theory will deliver on the many-worlds hypothesis and allow us access to the as-yet-unrealised pedipulator promises of yore.
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