Archive for May, 2008
I’ve recently discovered Etsy as a source for old books and bookish ephemera. A search for “altered books” in the vintage category is like entering an ecommerce-enabled version of BibliOdyssey (i.e., awesome). Some picks:
1866 Ledger
“Medusa-like animals” (1914)
The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1952)(See, he’s contemplating time and space.)
Word and Image: Posters from the Collection of the [...]
NNDB Mapper: Beyond Lists of Links
1 Comment Published May 21st, 2008, 2:22pm in Curiosities, Ideas.NNDB Mapper from the NNDB (Notable Names Database) is a sophisticated visualization tool for the people—the kind of thing we’re starting to see a lot more of—and you can use it to uncover little-known connections between Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker contributors who have been parodied as Muppets and philosophers featured on the cover of Sgt. [...]
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