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09/30/07 // Link:
British Library Books Go Digital Good news from the British Library System, finally, some rare books are set to be available in digital form. From the BBC: More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
The Guardian Unlimited Talks To Dave Eg… Dave Eggers on generosity, charity and giving it away: Dave Eggers has made an empire out of generosity, and on the cheap as well. The earliest issues of McSweeney’s, his eccentric literary quarterly, look today as if they were printed …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
20 Great Nuggets of Personal Finance Ad… Some great financial advice as always from the Get Rich Slowly blog. Here’s the top five: Be humble. “When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — that is knowledge.” — Confucius Take …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Museum Gottwaldianum Another Bibliodyssey post. That guy/girl has some amazing stuff, I need to figure out where they find it all. Anyway, this one has a bit of a natural history bent to it. “Christoph Gottwald(t) (1636-1700) was a German physician in …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Biking Across Eurasia A great project and one of those epic adventures everyone dreams about (for similar stuff try digging up torrents for the travel channel’s series about the couple that walked the length of Africa — amazing stuff). And I do love …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Map of Humanity The Map of Humanity by Rex Libris and Nil creator James Tuner is a giant atlas listing human emotions, states of mind, characters and such, placing real and fictional locations in their (mostly) appropriate territories. This giant 24x36 Map of …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saund… George Saunders has a new one out entitled The Braindead Megaphone. Doesn’t take much to imagine what that’s referring to. Jason Kottke put up this excerpt from the title essay: Last night on the local news I watched a young …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Baroque Fables Another nice find from Bibliodyssey, this time some illustrations from a Baroque era book of fables: Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1766) was a German painter, engraver, draughtsman and publisher. His training included depictions of animals, especially horses, as well as copies …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Monks in Myanmar Protest for Third Day The monks are challenging the military regime in Burma/Myanmar. From the New York Times: Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar’s main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
Life Before Air Conditioning Having spent the seven of the last ten years in the American south, where summer is a sweltering miserable nightmare, I’ve given quite a lot of thought to heat, air-conditioning and the impacts both have had on the local culture. …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
Dogs That Know: Participate Is your dog pyschic? Aren’t they all? Seriously though, the folks over at open source science are having a contest (highly unscientific in it’s methods I might add) to see if anyone can “prove” their dog knows when they are …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
The Strange Story of Napoleon’s Wallpap… Napoleon, as we all know, died on the remote island of St Helena. A sample of his hair analyzed in the 1960s revealed a high concentration of arsenic, which, over the years has convinced some that he was poisoned, quite …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
Head-mounted Device is the Cat’s Whiske… Get your spidy sense in realtime. A pretty remarkable project of the Japan that gives you 360 degree sensory awareness: A series of infrared sensors positioned around the device act as invisible whisker or antenna sensors. When these detect an …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
Diableries: Early Visual Media The goal of this page is to offer a Bibliotheque of all known Stereo-Diableries. The most complete list (compiled by Denis Pellerin) I have ever seen mention 139 different Diableries, most likely part of several series since some of them …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
Train Runs Through Bangkok Market Just one of the many reason why Asia is so damn great. Try to imagine what would happen if you attempted this in the west.continue reading »

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