Posted Sep 25, 2008
WANT
in Wired shares a rich geek's personal library
Recent Responses by donkeykonguk
Posted Sep 24, 2008
Fascinating talk on the psychology of evil behavior by Zimbardo. His Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) created a Abu Ghraib-like environment in just a few days, using Stanford university students in a mock jail setting.
in Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
Posted Sep 18, 2008
I don't like the new design
in Facebook confidently faces design change backlash
Posted Sep 18, 2008
Don't cut funding for Hawaii's libraries!
in Hawaii libraries may have to cut back again
Posted Sep 17, 2008
This looks cool! gonna take the demo for a spin
in Kenaxis 3 Releases with New Features for Laptop Musicians
Posted Sep 12, 2008
interesting slideshow of images of the twin towers which still adorn many nyc graphics
in Twin Towers, All Around Us
Posted Sep 11, 2008
I keep waiting for adobe to implement this in their software, that crazy nested generative stuff
in Painting with LEGO?
Posted Aug 21, 2008
wow. I'm glad the Grafton PD is tackling the most dangerous criminals and not at all abusing their power and their community's funds.
in Wisconsin: Tough On Crime
Posted Aug 19, 2008
The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?* Edward R. Tufte
in Typophile
Posted Aug 19, 2008
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
in BEER
Posted Aug 19, 2008
Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.* Note slipped into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Thursday 24 July 2008 [13].
in Obama '08
Posted Aug 08, 2008
Athanasius is the Man!
in Musurgia Universalis by Athanasius Kircher, a key work of musicology
Posted Aug 06, 2008
despite the strange choice of stuttered video and cheesy setup, this video shows an interesting UI prototype.
in Aurora (Part 1) on Vimeo
Posted Aug 05, 2008
actually, that sounds like an advanced ninja technique-several layers of disguise
in Men dressed like ninjas steal drugs from North Andover pharmacy 'with military precision'
Posted Aug 04, 2008
Footnote is a great site!
in Footnote.com: Historical documents and the people who love them
Posted Aug 04, 2008
Land of the free, home of the brave, indeed.
in American federal agents can now take your laptop, iPods without reason
Posted Jul 31, 2008
dammit, Todd, brush up on your Eliot!
in Main Branch of Pittsburgh Carnegie Library Tagged by Vandals
Posted Jul 31, 2008
"Turning the Pages" is an amazing way to browse through some of the world's rarest and most beautiful books.
in Turn the Pages of Rare Books...with Technology
Posted Jul 31, 2008
* "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." ~ Potter Stewartin Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing
Posted Jul 28, 2008
I dunno how the policeman's going to get out of that one. Sickening to watch, but at least police brutality is harder to hide now.
in Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD
Posted Jul 28, 2008
and the card attached would say "Thank you for being a friend"
in And Now Your Friday Downer: No 'Golden Girls' Made It To Estelle Getty's Funeral [Thank You For Nothing]
Posted Jul 23, 2008
what about .914?http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/04/drunk-bulgarian-050104.html
in RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level
Posted Jul 19, 2008
You can find the whole series here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcIQb5wK6eQ
in Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief - Part I
Posted Jul 18, 2008
This is an honor for Bush, but I fear it will tarnish the reputation of the sewage plant.
in An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
Posted Jul 18, 2008
ok, put your pants back on! we'll close gitmo. :)
in Law Blog - WSJ.com : Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees
Posted Jul 10, 2008
somehow I doubt that the law will have much of a deterrent effect.
in Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies
Posted Jul 09, 2008
It's Let's Paint TV! http://letspainttv.blogspot.com/2006/12/behind-scenes-at-lets-paint-tv-be.html
in The Treadmill Desk: Exercise for the Sake of Hacking
Posted Jul 08, 2008
boy I need to read this!
in Weeding out clutter and emotional and physical baggage
Posted Jul 08, 2008
Mr. Man said it best "Simply because it's coming straight out of BrooklynIt sounds so out of sight I got the blind people lookin
It's Mr. Man the act, boy what? You get stolen
I'll cut your ass in half and leave you with a semicolon"
in Has modern life killed the semicolon? - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine
Posted Jul 08, 2008
1972 Can - Ege Bamyasi1973 Can - Tago Mago
1974 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
1975 Can - Landed
1976 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1977 David Bowie - Low
1978 Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
1979 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1980 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
1981 Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
1982 The Clash - Combat Rock
1983 Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
1984 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
1985 Run D.M.C. - King of Rock
1986 The Cure - Standing on a Beach
1987 The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
1988 Joy Division - Substance
1989 De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
1990 The Go-Betweens - 1978 to 1990
1991 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
1992 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
1993 A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
1994 Portishead - Dummy
1995 Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
1996 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
1997 V.A. - Deep Concentration Vol. 1
1998 Air - Moon Safari
1999 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
2000 Outkast - Stankonia
2001 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002 2 Many DJ's: As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
2003 King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
2004 Franz Ferdinand
2005 Edan - Beauty and the Beat
2006 CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
2007 Flight of the Conchords - First Season songs
in Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club
Posted Jul 08, 2008
ah, so that's where they go!
in YouTomb: Videos removed from YouTube for copyright issues
Posted Jul 04, 2008
Numbers stations are great. Check out the 4 cd set from irdial.
in Attack of the numbers radio
Posted Jul 02, 2008
the best definition of happiness I've found was the one I saw on a sign outside of a Honolulu car repair shop: "Happiness is a choice, not a reaction."
in Gross Happiness Index
Posted Jul 02, 2008
chin up. 201 days to go...
in The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
Posted Jul 01, 2008
I should mention that some of the images are not so yummy :)
in The Wellcome Library
Posted Jun 30, 2008
err, what about stealing from the living?
in Economic Slump Leads to Resurgence of Grave Robbing
Posted Jun 30, 2008
today must be "dirty monday" on the bd :)
in "Can You Hear Me Now?" "No, but I just shoved a cell phone up my ass!"
Posted Jun 30, 2008
Beautiful drawing
in Mr. Fooster – Travelling on a Whim celebrates its launch at Art of Navigation in San Francisco!
Posted Jun 30, 2008
I'm hoping that this diagram is not to scale.
in Rent-a-Dildo.com - How It Works
Posted Jun 27, 2008
Yeah, what are the morticians going to do?
in Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
Posted Jun 27, 2008
why not? this race is perhaps the most-covered, most significant ad campaign in the world.
in Barack Obama and his iPod: Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen
Posted Jun 27, 2008
yeah, that's because I don't think that's an idea worth spreading!
in TED: Ideas worth spreading
Posted Jun 27, 2008
awesome! Friday, September 19, 2003ok me is good man
// posted by charles @ 3:25 PM
ok me is good man
you can e-mail at charlestwo@alaska.net
// posted by charles @ 3:23 PM
ok me is good man i live in anchorage alaska .me is 8yrs. old
// posted by charles @ 3:16 PM
in When blogging goes nowhere
Posted Jun 27, 2008
didn't know he was still alive.
in Germany seeks extradition of Nazi guard from US - NYTimes.com
Posted Jun 27, 2008
Hi hergart, it looks like this will be a memorial page for Jack: http://www.myspace.com/fspace
in Jack Marquette: 1948-2008
Posted Jun 26, 2008
Nice! I could see a high school adaptation of the Odyssey-"Fast Times at Ithaca High"?
in Odysseus' Bloody Homecoming Dated to 1178 B.C.
Posted Jun 26, 2008
jeez, when is someone going to get this right? This looks pretty cool though.
in Dual-Screen Ebook Developed, Navigates in Real Page-Turn Style [Ebooks]
Posted Jun 24, 2008
sorry, Art Torrents lists many torrents that are on an invite-only site. For other arty torrents, check out Freaky Flicks (http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com/)
in Isidore Isou (Jean Isidore Goldstein) - Treatise on Slobber and Eternity (1951)
Posted Jun 23, 2008
That's why I pay cash.
in Trust in Multi-Billion $$$$$$$ "Trust" Companies?? What a Sick Joke!!!
Posted Jun 23, 2008
Anyway, the usual New Yorker caption contest entries are lame. Hopefully some better comedy writers will find this site.
in The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest
Posted Jun 23, 2008
I guess this offers some people a sense of control over the unpredictability of life, but why not spend that time building some levees?
in Midwest Worshippers Hear Good News: River Cresting
Posted Jun 20, 2008
http://www.users.qwest.net/~broger1/pluckme.jpg
in Garkov: Garfield + Markov chains
Posted Jun 20, 2008
I can't pick a favorite: "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman", "Chicken without sexual life", or "Husband and wife's lung slice". Astounding.
in China renames menu items for Olympics
Posted Jun 20, 2008
I like to think of the massage parlor, bald tire, and marriage counselor visit all happening to the same guy. Let's just say that bad credit isn't his only problem.
in Your Lifestyle May Hurt Your Credit
Posted Jun 19, 2008
hmm, kind of interesting, but not going to take any photo restorer's job away.
in AKVIS Retoucher 3.0 (Default branch)
Posted Jun 19, 2008
Nice work. Modernist architecture is perfect for Lego
in LEGO replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
Posted Jun 18, 2008
and then an exclamation point
in Mark Simonson notes that the period typography in the Indiana Jones...
Posted Jun 16, 2008
That guitar looks cool. How is it different from using a sustain pedal?
in Amazing new guitar from Moog
Posted Jun 10, 2008
Yeah, it's a new meme. It's from the film "Downfall". Even Hitler's not happy about it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C7dkK6r2mHU
in Hillary's Downfall
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Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
Posted Sep 24, 2008
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David S. Rose: 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money
Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself -- and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow.
Posted Sep 24, 2008
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Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the ...more
Posted Sep 24, 2008
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Stefan Sagmeister: Yes, design can make you happy
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video
What would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker's concept? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment in the form.
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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Robert Lang: Idea + square = origami
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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Steven Johnson: A guided tour of the Ghost Map
Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society.
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world
Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design.
Posted Sep 19, 2008
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A Year of Heavy Losses (via NY Times)
A year ago, financial companies were flying high. But as problems in the mortgage and credit markets have grown, the stocks of many Wall Street firms have been hard hit. Some of the biggest companies have been bought out, taken over by the government ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Paul Koontz: Tourist snapshots from North Korea
About this talk
While on vacation in Asia in 2007, Paul Koontz got the rare chance to spend a few days in North Korea as a tourist. He brought along his kids and his camera. In this talk, he shares his experiences, from quotidian details to grand ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs?
About this talk
Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Keith Barry: Brain magic
About this talk
First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
About Keith Barry
Think of ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Patricia Burchat: The search for dark energy and dark matter
About this talk
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
About ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Roger Fenton Crimean War Photographs
Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to June 26, 1855), produced 360 photographs ...more
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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Goodreads: It's what your friends are reading
Let's make reading fun again. Somehow, reading books seems to have gotten a bad rap. People are working too hard and not making time to read, people are watching TV because they can veg out and turn their brains off — hey, we feel it too! But every ...more
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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Cool library parking garage, Kansas City
Photo by Jonathan Moreau (via Flickr)
Posted Sep 16, 2008
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Peanuts' animator Melendez dies
US animator Bill Melendez, who drew Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters in numerous movies and TV specials, has died at the age of 91. (via BBC)
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Album Cover
In 1939, he was the first art director for Columbia Records, where he invented the concept of album covers and cover art; previously, recorded music was sold in plain, undecorated packaging.[citation needed] Steinweiss was active in record cover ...more
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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Vintage Hawaiian Sheet Music
Beautiful vintage hawaiian sheet music covers (via Hulapages.com)
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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The FontFeed
The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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Battle25 Tee-design via Typophile
Typohile movie rating t-shirt. Are you addicted to type?
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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Marco Polo's travels on Google Maps
I am reading my slow, marvellous way through the Yule-Cordier edition of The Travels of Marco Polo, armed with Google Maps, Google Images, Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. It is stirring up an insatiable storm of Wanderlust, and so to ...more
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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LEGO album covers on Flickr
From the fantastic Flickr LEGO Album Covers pool comes The Beatle's "Lego It Be" by minifig and The White Stripes' "White Blood Cells by joanna saves the Earth. Of course, The White Stripes are no strangers to Lego, having worked with Michel Gondry ...more
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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Spencer Wells: Building a family tree for all humanity
All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are -- in all our diversity -- truly connected.
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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Jonathan Drori: Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Reformat the Planet - Chiptune documentary on Pitchfork.tv
It started with sequencing 8-bit chipsets on Nintendo Game Boys, but the Chiptune scene has now expanded well beyond game systems. Directed by Paul Owens, Reformat the Planet is the essential introduction to this awesome new genre, and proves it's ...more
Posted Aug 19, 2008
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Emoticons are at least 127 years old
Typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U.S. satirical magazine Puck.
Posted Aug 14, 2008
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Architecture generated from spam - Boing Boing
Alex Dragulescu's "Spam Architecture" project designs virtual houses by mapping the content of incoming spam to structural and decorative elements.
Posted Aug 13, 2008
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Electric Company typography
Not only was The Electric Company a hugely successful show aimed at improving kids' reading skills, with a stellar cast including Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, and Rita Moreno, psychedelic early video effects, and funky music, but it was a program in ...more
Posted Aug 08, 2008
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Tell Congress to Rein in DHS Travel Abuses
If you travel outside the United States, you can kiss your right to privacy, and perhaps your laptop, digital camera and cell phone, goodbye.
Posted Aug 08, 2008
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SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot - Boing Boing
Cheye Calvo, mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights, was raided by a SWAT team after 30lbs of marijuana was delivered to his home. They broke down his door, shot his two black labradors, and interrogated him and his wife as their dogs bled to death. ...more
Posted Aug 07, 2008
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Sara Antoinette Martin’s El Chupacabra | ALBOTAS - A Little Bit On The Awesome Side |
El Chupacabra has always been one of my favorite urban legends of all time. I love the Kidrobot press release on this:
Illustrator Sara Antoinette Martin’s El Chupacabra lived off goats’ blood and meat until a famine turned this flocked beast into an ...more
Posted Aug 06, 2008
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What It Feels Like...to Eat Two Pounds of Butter - Esquire
"It coats your mouth like axle grease, so it's hard to swallow" Photo credit: Vicious Bits' on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/viciousbits/)
Posted Aug 06, 2008
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Aurora (Part 1) on Vimeo
Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series.
Posted Aug 06, 2008
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The Republic, Slip-Sliding Away
Despite all the blather about democracy, we did not invent it, do not support it and have, during the recent administration, become less democratic than we were before.
Posted Aug 05, 2008
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Hand Drawn Map Association : This is map #6
Collection of hand drawn maps.
Posted Aug 04, 2008
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Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency
Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting almost 4 years), The Memory Hole has obtained blank copies of most forms used by the National Security Agency).
Posted Jul 31, 2008
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Antikythera Mechanism calculated dates of Olympic games
A paper in Nature details discoveries about this 2,000 year old astronomical marvel, which even reveals the timing of the earliest Olympic games.
Posted Jul 31, 2008
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Send Karl Rove to Jail!
Even when faced with a subpoena from Congress, Rove has refused to testify. Rove believes that he is not only above the law, but that he controls it. He’s wrong.
Sign our petition. Send Karl Rove to jail.
Posted Jul 29, 2008
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Baby's First Internet
A satirical look at the internets through the lens of children's storybooks.
Posted Jul 22, 2008
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Autochromes from the George Eastman House
Beautiful examples of the earliest color photos.
Posted Jul 20, 2008
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Belkin GoStudio Recorder review
Belkin's new GoStudio recorder is an iPod accessory that boasts a full-featured recording dock that is compatible with the iPod 5G, iPod classic, as well as both second and third generations of iPod nano.
Posted Jul 20, 2008
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Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief - Part I
Jonathan Miller's 'Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief' explores the development of atheism as a singular mode of being, clarifying quite spectacularly the emergence of secular thought over the past 500 years.
Posted Jul 18, 2008
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"Dub Echoes" (trailer)
"Dub Echoes" is a documentary that shows how The Jamaican dub influenced the birth of much of what we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop.
Posted Jul 11, 2008
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It's Time to Vote: Choose Your Science Idol!
Please vote on the right for your favorite of the 12 finalists. You'll be entered to win some great prizes!
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Stop the Polar Bear Whitewash
Take action now -- urge federal officials to provide threatened polar bears with the protections they need to survive. Officials need to hear from you by July 14th!
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Take Action: Jailed for Raising a Flag
Urge your Representative to pressure the Indonesian government to release two men imprisoned solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Teenager finds baby bat in her bra
A teenager was stunned to find that a baby bat had been curled up inside her bra for five hours - as she was wearing it.
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Snuggly, the Security Bear
A few months back, SF Gate cartoonist Mark Fiore introduced his character Snuggly, the Security Bear, with a brilliant take on telecom immunity. Now, Snuggly is back, and he has a few words to say about "compromise."
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Senate Joins House in Caving to White House Immunity Demands
Telecoms Let Off the Hook for Illegal Spying - For Now
Posted Jul 09, 2008
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Speech Accent Archive
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish ...more
Posted Jul 09, 2008
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Action Alert: Tell Your Senators: "Don't Shred the Constitution this July 4th -- Reject Telecom Immunity!"
The Senate will vote on the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), a bill that would betray the spirit of 1776 by radically expanding the president’s spying powers and granting immunity to the companies that colluded in his illegal program. Therefore EFF urges ...more
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship
Presidents & Kings
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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Banned Books Week: September 27–October 4, 2008
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas," The One Un-American Act."
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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Bibliodyssey
Strange, rare, and beautiful images from online libraries and museums.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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Flight of the Conchords: Ladies of the World
Director Nima Nourizadeh channels the various degrees of hilarity from the self-titled Flight of the Conchords LP into a video for a love ballad about the demilitarizing powers of women.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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Human Mirror
For our latest mission, we filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror. Enjoy the video first and then see below for our report with tons of photos.
Posted Jul 07, 2008
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Show us your desktop…
…and we’ll tell you who you are.
Objective of the study: To learn how computer users use their desktops. We invite you to participate.
Posted Jul 07, 2008
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God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack T. Chick
The film is a feature length documentary on the most published underground cartoonist ever: Jack Chick, the maker of the infamous in-your-face Gospel comic tracts (over 800 MILLION sold!) This is an unflinching look at the controversial artist and ...more
Posted Jul 07, 2008
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Highlights of Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research
Posted Jul 05, 2008
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Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.
Posted Jul 05, 2008
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Treasures in Full: Gutenberg Bible
On this site you will find the British Library’s two copies of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s.
Posted Jul 04, 2008
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Murder in New York: Killers and Their Victims in the Five Boroughs
Between 2003 and 2005, 1,662 murders were committed in New York. Men and boys were responsible for 93 percent of the murders; their victims tended to be other men and boys; and in more than half the cases, the killer and victim knew each other.
Posted Jul 04, 2008
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Japanese Matchbox Labels
Is there anything cooler than a smoking duck? I think not.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians
Watch these vodcasts and recordings to learn about new library tools, interesting literacy campaigns and outreach programs, and even hysterical videos about library stereotypes that are circulating on the Internet.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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"Carry On" and "Dracula" stamps issued
Royal Mail has released stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carry On films and the first Dracula movie by Hammer Films. Each stamp features an original cinema poster from a Carry On or Hammer movie
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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Memory Maps
The idea is to take a satelitte image of your neighborhood from your childhood, and use "notes" to tell the story of you growing up.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (1849)
August 6, 1849.
I am ten years old today, and I am going to begin a diary. My sister says it is a good plan, and when I am old, and in a remembering mood, I can take out my diary and read about what I did when I was a little girl.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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Today in History (Library of Congress)
Fascinating items pulled from the Library of Congress which happened on this day in history.
Posted Jul 02, 2008
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The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
A shorter version of our long national nightmare.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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List of eponymous laws
This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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The Evolution of Fear
El miedo es una de nuestras tantas emociones básicas, naturales e involuntarias que permite nuestra supervivencia al alertarnos frente a posibles peligros.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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Roman Roadmap
the Tabula Peutingeriana is an early road map which charts in astonishing detail the highways and byways of the imperial Roman world.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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Gallery of Book Trade Labels
Anyone who handles old books will have come across these small and sometimes beautiful labels pasted more or less discreetly into the endpapers.
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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Anatomia, 1522–1867
This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, ...more
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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The Wellcome Library
This web version of Turning the Pages, an award-winning interactive programme developed by the British Library, allows users to virtually 'turn' pages, zoom-in on high-quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and ...more
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Of the more than 130 million items in the Library of Congress, which are considered "treasures"?
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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In Living Color
An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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I Can't Believe It's Not Kant!
While the common dog enthusiast may content himself to costume his cur in the guise of hackneyed pop-culture icons, retro-urban folk archetypes, or even perverse attempts at species confusion, the intellectual dog owner seeks to cloak Man's Best ...more
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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"The Day the Cow Sneezed" by Jim Flora
A great children's book written and illustrated by James Flora, 1957. Not only are the images in the final version amazing to look at, I also have the original mock-ups for the majority of the pages shown here, all thanks to the great Irwin Chusid.
Posted Jun 30, 2008
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plush portables possess plenty of panache
I was buzzing about over on the wonderful world of Etsy today, when I came across these absolutely awesome plush versions of popular portable electronic gadgets. French textile artist Kmila Rodz handcrafts these super special soft systems using felt, ...more
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching ...more
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality trailers
Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of ...more
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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Odysseus' Bloody Homecoming Dated to 1178 B.C.
Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry ...more
Posted Jun 26, 2008
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Philosophy Bites
podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics...
Posted Jun 25, 2008
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The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. (video, ...more
Posted Jun 24, 2008
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Isidore Isou (Jean Isidore Goldstein) - Treatise on Slobber and Eternity (1951)
This is the opening manifesto of the postwar european avant-garde cinema. Created by the charismatic founder of Lettrism, mentor of Lemaitre and Debord, the Hungarian jew Jean Isidore Goldstein who moved to Paris in 1945 and went by the nickname ...more
Posted Jun 24, 2008
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"FOOD FOR THE DEAD:
On the Trail of
New England's Vampires"
Folklorist Michael E. Bell suggests that our local ancestors unearthed loved ones in a desperate effort to cure tuberculosis. This New England tour of vampire sites focuses on his native Rhode Island, but includes a recently discovered New Hampshire ...more
Posted Jun 23, 2008
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The Day There Was No News
Today there was no news. And here is the proof.
Posted Jun 23, 2008
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WuChess
The game of chess, is like a swordfight. You must think first, before you move. Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Most well known for his "Obey Giant" street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is ...more
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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Garkov: Garfield + Markov chains
Garkov is an application of the Markov model to transcripts of old Garfield strips, plus some extra code to make it all look like a genuine comic strip. Feel free to screenshot and share Garkov output.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." This event took place September 26, 2007.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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The Nietzsche Family Circus
The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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China renames menu items for Olympics
Story Highlights
# "Chicken without sexual life" has been transformed into "Steamed pullet"
# The Chinese say the dishes' names focus more on appearance than taste or smell
# More than 2,000 proposed names have been offered to Beijing hotels
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids
"I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he’d noticed in villages across the continent.
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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John Cage: Variations VII: Documentary: Chapter 01 (Pitchfork.tv)
In 1966, a group of 10 artists, along with 30 engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories, brought to life John Cage's Variations VII, the next-to-last in a series of indeterminate electronic works the composer had begun in 1958. [More at ...more
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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It’s mine, I tell you
Mankind’s inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Shorpy The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
The Athanasius Kircher Society was chartered to perpetuate the spirit and sensibilities of the late Athanasius Kircher, SJ. Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the ...more
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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COLOURlovers
COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color
trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for
ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -
a place to check out a world of color, compare color ...more
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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George Dyson: The birth of the computer
Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms
Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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PhotoshopDisasters
Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Erin McKean: Dictionary editor
Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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The Bowery Boys
Join us as we take a weekly romp down the back alleys of New York City history. Get our weekly podcast free on iTunes or listen to the podcasts here.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to ...more
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself ...more
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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David Gallo: Underwater astonishments
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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'Oldest' computer music unveiled - from 1951
A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.
Posted Jun 18, 2008
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"The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous"
circa 1890, by an unknown photographer.
Saint Bernadette, born Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879), was a miller's daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. Her Occitan name is Maria Bernada Sobirós, aka ...more
Posted Jun 09, 2008
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Make your own fonts online with FontStruct
FontStruct.com lets you create your own fonts in your browser. Once you've created a font, you can share it with others. You can also tweak other existing fonts. While it's not a complete typeface design tool, it does allow you to create some nice ...more
Posted May 30, 2008
