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FFFFOUND Today

The FFFFOUND ffffeed brings a lot of joy.

Wikipedia Beacon Backup

This is your Firefox on Wikipedia with Tabs Mix Plus.
This being the season for useless year-end lists, here are the top 100 articles in my 2007 Wikipedia browsing history based on popularity on del.icio.us.

Agile software development
List of places blurred out on Google Maps
Go (board game)
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Graph ..

“Once You Open the Vault It Ceases to Be a Vault”

Boston public television station WGBH has started to do what many people long for TV stations and related entities everywhere to do: chop up their archives into short video clips and make them findable online. Open Vault boasts a growing library of clips, mostly from the ’70s. Quick picks:
Nam June Paik’s “9/23″
Featuring ..

Sample-Spotting McLuhan

Books sampled in Marshall McLuhan’s War and Peace in the Global Village (1968):

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
The Senses by Otto Lowenstein
Theories of Personality by Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
The Human Revolution by Ashley Montagu
Medieval Technology ..

Shaker Visual Poetry

One of UbuWeb’s Featured Resources for the month of October, 2007.
Note: Bylined archival selections are the DJ top-ten lists of the ’00s. I’d be interested in Kenneth Goldsmith‘s picks from the New York Times archives for example or BibliOdyssey‘s top ten archival resources.

Mining the New York Times Archives

TimesSelect, the subscription pay-wall system that has enclosed premium content on The New York Times website for the last two years, expired at midnight last night. The gates have been torn open.
Putting aside the liberated columnists, who I look forward to reading again, the truly great thing about TimesSelect was the access it granted ..

Book Art All-Stars

Jonathan Callan
Cara Barer
Nina Katchadourian
Vito Drago
Robert The
M.L. Van Nice
Doug Beube
Abelardo Morell
Mickey Smith
Barton Lidic� Beneš

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