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08/30/08 // Link:
So You Want to Sail Around the World… Why, yes, I do. I just need a boat. And a few sailing lessons. And some extra cash. And, well, probably a whole bunch of things I haven’t even thought of yet. But this article makes it sound pretty damn …continue reading »
02/10/08 // Link:
The Ancient Indus Valley This is great site for anyone interested in seeing what south Asia looked like circa 1900-1920. Actually it’s a good bit more than that, but since I happen to be writing about that area, at that time, that’s what I’ve …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century Just when you think the internet might have actually overlooked a thing or two, you stumble across something like this: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. And don’t forget the subhead: A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
BibliOdyssey: Dagbok East India Trading Company BibliOdyssey has dug up another stellar set of illustrations. And there’s going to be BibliOdyssey book, so the nerdery can live on the coffee table, not just the computer screen. Anyway these great natural history illustrations are from the Swedish …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Languages Racing to Extinction This really depresses me. Especially when America is so xenophobic at the moment. I am however somewhat fascinated by the idea of a language that’s spoken by only one person, which is incredibly counter intuitive — do they talk to …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Out-Of-Body Experience Recreated Scientists are now able to trigger an out-of-body experience (without subjecting volunteers to near-death): Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere. The visual illusion plus the feel of their real …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:
MIT Finds Cure for Fear This does not seem like a good thing to me, I’ve yet to hear a ethicist weight in on this, but I can think of a few arguments against this discovery ever being used. Yes, it would be nice to …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
Internet Library of Early Journals Well it’s got the web design quality of a 1998 site, but the Internet Library of Early Journals, ILEJ, is actually pretty cool. It’s got scanned images from a number of sixteenth and seventeen century journals for your perusing pleasure. …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
You Are What You Grow Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well …continue reading »
01/21/07 // Link:
Huge New Study On Free/Open Software While most of the statics and numbers are geared toward the EU and European nations in general (the lead contractor of the study was UNU-MERIT from the Netherlands), the study nevertheless provides a fascinating look at free software and its …continue reading »
01/16/07 // Link:
National Archives on Footnote.com Footnote.com has teamed up with the National Archives to put original images of historical documents on the Internet for the first time. The press release says there’s something like 4 million documents available. I just spent twenty minutes browsing through …continue reading »
09/22/06 // Link:
Royal Society Publishing The Royal Society Digital Archive is now on-line and free to use… until December. Until that time, every article in its collections, going back to 1665, is freely accessible…continue reading »
07/07/06 // Link:
More Publishing Industry Info than you ever wanted “Here are some interesting facts and figures about the book industry.” Interesting might be a stretch for some, but it is perhaps more info in one place than I’ve ever seen before. A big help for that no-one-reads-anymore banality you’ve …continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
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