Excerpt from the magazine:

The little red book which contains hightlights from The thought of Mao Tse-tung is the most influential volume in the world today. It is also extremely dull and entirely unmemorable. To resolve this paradox, we, a handful of editors in authority who follow the capitalist road, thought useful to illustrate certain key passages in such a way that they are more likely to stick in the mind. The visual aid is Sharon Tate and, to give credit where credit, God knows, is due, she will soon be seen in the Twentieth Century-Fox motion picture, Valley of the Dolls.

The Thought Experiment is a blog run by Elizabeth Lamanna:

This animal is a thought experiment. I will try to keep it upbeat and interesting, but it may occasionally swing through bat country, go off broadway, or veer into vapidity as I attempt to disentangle what feels like the crushing simultaneity of where my choices have lead my life.

I realized about a month from turning thirty that I had spent the past year acting like I was going to be audited, as if, casting my memory back through the past ten years, I panicked. Maybe not without reason. Throughout this last decade, I’ve jumped a few ships, burned a few bridges, worded up, partied down, hung loose, and obeyed my thirst, and been just about rolled under by the waves almost as many times as I deserved. The final countdown of my twenties suddenly woke me up to the fact that somewhere along the way, I’d lost track of myself. (more)

The magazines’s regular features included phrases such as “the working mother is still on trial,” or “drink your way down the scale with four liquid meals a day,” 2 or “sometimes a secretary’s social life is so exhausting that her job become a mere meal ticket.” I could go on all day like this – there is easily enough material here for a grad seminar in post-Eisenhower gender roles or feminist epistemology. Or perhaps enough material for an episode of Mad Men. (more)

About Codex xcix:

Codex xcix’s an occasionally updated weblog about the history of the visual arts and graphic design. Mostly this means books and their typography and illustration, maps, periodicals, photos and posters as well as other miscellaneous ephemera. The history of visual arts is a rather wide swath to cover and the selection of materials follows the Stewartian argument of “I’ll know it when I see it.” The site is embellished wherever possible with diagrams, drawings, illustrations, maps, photographs, etc., and nearly all of the images in the posts link to a much larger image. (more)

Calling All Girls was an American teen magazine. Read more on Wikipedia.

“Cover of LIFE magazine dated 07-25-1969 w. logo & legend “Leaving for the Moon” w. pic of astronaut Neil Armstrong in spacesuit waving. Photo by Leonard McCombe

Life’s archive indicates the photo was taken on July 25, 1969 which is obviously wrong (it’s rather the publication date). The photo was taken on the morning of July 16, 1969.

Examine a similar photo from another angle via NASA headquarters : photo ID KSC-69PC-412.