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Famous photographs (e.g. Capa’s “Death of a Loyalist Soldier”), rendered in Lego. (Interesting details on how they were made as well.) gulfstream/2421
Clay Shirky’s tantalising suggestion that perhaps TV is a temporary spare-time-filling measure, and that sometime soon we’re going to come up with … gulfstream/2431
Essay on the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his involvement in the making of an early parallel supercomputer. gulfstream/2442
Since MPs are technically forbidden to resign (since they theoretically serve at the pleasure of their constituents), they need to “resign” via the … gulfstream/2412
High-resolution images of that (previously-uncontacted?) Amazonia tribe shot who shot at a plane flying overhead with arrows. gulfstream/2448
The design similarities between Braun and Apple products. (The Braun calculator and iPhone calculator are distressingly similar.) gulfstream/2321
Great piece on Toronto’s subway signage, and public signage in general. gulfstream/2330
Loving piece on the Leica. “Ralph Gibson once went to a meeting of the Leica Historical Society of America and, he claims, listened to a retired Marine … gulfstream/2331
Astute essay on the state of web apps, and what might happen next, with comparisons to the place ofLotus 1-2-3 3.0 and Windows in computing history.The … gulfstream/2332
Nice series by Tim Wu on some categories of laws that are not actively enforced (including copyright laws, immigration laws), and why. gulfstream/2342
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Includes sections on The Bible (the handwriting on the wall), proverbs (he who laughs last, laughs best), idioms … gulfstream/2349
The evolution of Mario gameplay via an interview with Super Mario Galaxy game director Yoshiaki Koizumi (surprisingly interesting): “There are issues … gulfstream/2355
Surfing the modern web with Netscape 0.9b. (Not much of it works, though mostly because it doesn’t talk HTTP 1.1, or understand content type.) gulfstream/2373
“The Charms of Wikipedia,” by Nicholson Baker. The first section neatly captures the charms of Wikipedia, and the last is a nice account of Baker’s … gulfstream/2407
Photographing medieval tapestries. gulfstream/1717
First-hand account of the Yalta conference. Stalin apparently had a lemon tree flown in so that Roosevelt could serve his martinis with a twist. gulfstream/1776
Jorn Barger of robotwisdom.com now semi-homeless in SF? gulfstream/1791
“How vanilla became shorthand for bland.” I hate hate hate it when I get a milkshake with no flavour when I ask for a vanilla milkshake. … gulfstream/1813
What the “@” sign is called in different countries. gulfstream/1839
Malcolm Gladwell on the college admissions process. gulfstream/1846
John Seigenthaler’s Wikipedia entry was wrong for 132 days, which makes him unhappy. gulfstream/1893
Lone Star Statements: One star Amazon reviews of notable books. gulfstream/1919
Where map geeks and music geeks intersect… Map superimposes 20th Century musicians over London’s tube map; musicians at intersections … gulfstream/1965
In 1962, a U.S. high-altitute (400km!) nuclear test knocked out one-third of the satellites in low earth orbit, including the first commercial communications … gulfstream/2020
Figure I should put this up: the top 50 blogs in September 2000. gulfstream/2029
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
History of The New Yorker via the recently-released CD anthology. Less than affectionate; attempts to diminish. (e.g. “The New Yorker is the only magazine … gulfstream/2089
On the origin and revival of Matthew Carter’s font Georgia. gulfstream/2104
“Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence”: “... Little did such founding fathers as George Washington, George Jefferson, and ***ERIC … gulfstream/2124
Things I didn’t know: there is still Shaker community, though there are only four of them left. Their website explains why they share all their goods: … gulfstream/2129
Why there’s a shot clock in basketball: in the 1950s, before the shot clock, teams would stall after claiming an early lead, resulting in slow, dull … gulfstream/2139
Malcolm Gladwell: the success of a company (or country) is determined, to a great extent, by the ratio of workers to dependent non-workers. (GM has 453,000 … gulfstream/2141
Remarkably honest and straightforward (feelingless?) autobiographical account of Robert Hughes’s first marriage. “We met at a drinks party in Notting … gulfstream/2142
Buildings in Mecca and Medina dating back to the time of Mohamed and before are being destroyed by Wahhabists in an attempt to prevent idolatry. (The … gulfstream/2206
CIA account of two CIA operatives shot down over China on their first mission in 1952, and held captive for 20 years. gulfstream/2270
Google search of all the pages you’ve ever visited. You need to have the Google Toolbar installed. Must require a really nasty amount of computing … gulfstream/2273
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Apple //c - a photoset on Flickr
apple //c unboxing!
photographs of leaders before they became famous
torgo_x: Everything old
browsing the web with mosaic 0.93
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
The History Channel - Great Speeches: Politics & Government
Native ingenuity - The Boston Globe
Focus: White do-gooders did for black America - World - Times Online
From Nineveh to New Orleans - Books - Times Online
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic
Dresden - Do Germans have a right to mourn their war dead? By Carly Berwick
Tony Rothman's Article on Evariste Galois
BBC SPORT | Football | World Cup 2006 | World Cup memories
The New Criterion — Tales from the crypt
history of the new yorker via a review of the cd anthology; attempts to diminish it
Slavery and the American Revolution
World Leaders Youth Pics - Iran Defence Forum
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
easter island inhabited by humans much later than previously thought, and deforested by rats??
Wired 14.11: The Perfect Thing
The 10 Downing Street Door
oh, england: the "0" on 10 downing street is fixed at an angle, because the original had a badly-fixed "0" also.
interview with the creators of zfs
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress)
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