User:Ineuw/Interesting
Links to articles and videos
[edit]- 100+ year old type fished out of the Thames
- New fonts introduced
- An article from the London Review of Books.
- Spinglish
- Arabic typefaces
- Rio Wang blog of esoteric history
- Weeding the worst library books by the New Yorker
- The community bookstore in Brooklyn New York, by the New Yorker
- The bicycle problem
- Prison for overdue library books
- CIA puts almost 12 million declassified files online for the first time
- New York Review of Books - Voynich manuscript
- Video about the end of the linotype era at the New York Times
- Google's plan to scan 125 million books
- An interesting article about books and libraries in the Guardian
- A short glossary of delightful library terms
- Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
- Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain
- Internet Archive adds 2500 playable DOS games to the archive
Interesting quotes
[edit]- "I would have been locked up Mr. Mason! And then, how would I continue working out with weights in jail? That's why I told the truth." Perry Mason, 1963 TV Season
- "All I said to my wife was: This halibut was good enough for Jehovah." Monty Python the Life of Brian 1979.
- "The ability to play chess is a sign of a gentleman," Chess master Paul Morphy once said. "The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
Public domain articles copied from various sources
[edit]NY Times 1877 article on nutrition
Articles from the Popular Science Monthly
[edit]- For and against vaccination arguments in 1910.