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This site is designed to provide you with a wide range of illustrations scanned from old books. Most of these pictures are wood engravings or woodcuts, fewer are etchings or copper engravings; Visitors looking for nineteenth century or victorian clipart might just find it here. [From Welcome to » Old Book Illustrations: pictures scanned from […]
Read MoreIt’s company policy gone ape
office politics and policy [From It’s company policy gone ape ] —- this is supposed to be a joke, but somehow i think people find it a bit too revelatory.
Read MoreA Sporting Gesture Touches ’Em All – New York Times
Something remarkable happened in a college softball game last Saturday in Ellensburg, Wash. [From A Sporting Gesture Touches ’Em All – New York Times] ——- sportsmanship, it means doing the right thing. These players knew what to do, and should be celebrated.
Read MoreMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook.com, From a New Yorker Magazine Fact Checker.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MARK ZUCKERBERG, FOUNDER AND CEO OF FACEBOOK.COM, FROM A NEW YORKER MAGAZINE FACT CHECKER. [From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook.com, From a New Yorker Magazine Fact Checker.] —— hehhehehheheheheheh
Read MoreCharles Tilly passed away
Charles Tilly Tilly chuck tilly Sociology, n-1 —- From the sites that I read…. I’ve read a few of his books. He was an easy and sensible read, very accessible on the surface level. It is hard to find fault with the surface of his texts. I think he will be missed.
Read Morewww.cyberthing.net :: You are watching Replay (short animated film )
Replay (short animated film ) sad movie make you cry… [From www.cyberthing.net :: You are watching Replay (short animated film )] — This is a nice short film that to me seems to be about the seduction of technology, specifically the way youth are seduced by the manifold appearances of good that are designed into […]
Read MoreLiliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
ultraportable notebooks [From Liliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables] —– well… here’s a nice little list of all the tiny computers coming out soon. very hand to have.
Read MoreA tale of pudding
Restrictions sprout creativity. And so I gave five people this morning the following task: Tell me a story that starts with “Whether” and ends with “pudding” and has 27 words. Can you do any better? [From A tale of pudding]
Read Moreagainst litter
Bill Bryson Against Litter
Read MoreCFP: Learning and Research in Second Life® Oct. 15 Copenhagen @ IR 9.0
Call for Papers/Participation Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life(R) on October 16, 2008 in Copenhagen at Internet Research 9.0 (http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR9.0 ) Paper Deadline June 15th. Second Life is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab (R) which has captured the attention of researchers and teachers from around […]
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