BibliOdyssey captures the soul of the Americas.
Scott Carney drops in on the world’s last handwritten newspaper.
gmtPlus9(-15) visits the Museum of Japanese Anesthesia.
Moon River discovers scratch atlases for a proposed 1977 Atlas of North American Cultures.
Radical Cartography points to a map of all the ships in the ocean.
The American Newspaper Repository implores you to dance in [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Collectors’ Items
March 27 07
History Blogging is the New Twitter
March 22 07
We’re on a history kick at the 92nd Street Y today. It’s all because of Shorpy.
Unusual New York Public Library Collections
March 19 07
Research Room panorama. Full version.
The New York Public Library as we know it today began with the merging of three private collections, those of James Lenox, John Jacob Astor and Samuel J. Tilden (hence the library’s official name: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). Since then many other fabulously wealthy [...]
Disemvowelled Site of the Day: Scribd
March 6 07
Once upon a time, before my time, text files were the most interesting thing on the internet. You could learn how to program computers, blow things up, pick up girls, obtain free phone calls, survive nuclear war, pirate TV signals, perform witchcraft and conquer Zork in one short evening without leaving your bedroom. You could [...]
Bookish Social Network Socialization
March 1 07
When Ning relaunched with their “Create Your Own Social Network for Anything” tagline, I joked that someone should use Ning to create a social network for social networks. LibraryThing creator Tim Spalding was ahead of the game as usual and went and did exactly that: SocialCatalogers is a social network for people who make or [...]