links for 2007-05-31
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via Danny Yee
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“This is the only known instance of the general counsel for a federal agency admitting to personally destroying agency documents to avoid their disclosure.”
Archive for May, 2007
links for 2007-05-30
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via Danny Yee
links for 2007-05-29
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Historical market data source.
Cover art from Marie Corelli’s Wormwood
In cleaning out my email, I see that Barbara has sent me a scan of the cover art from a dime novel edition of Marie Corelli’s novel Wormwood. This is a down-sampled and heavily defuzzed version.
We’re not running the book through Distributed Proofreaders, because somebody else has a project running—hopefully on a sturdier edition. These dime novels are fragile wisps, even after 120 years of storage….
Again, this might be of interest or use; feel free to ask for the large original scan if you like.
Failing to explain agalmia
Ran into my neighbor this afternoon in the front yard, and we chatted. Caught up a bit on who’s doing what, how the world of scant bucks affects his professional world of words these days, that sort of thing. One of his many jobs involves being in charge of something at Thomson-Gale.
I grinned. He asked why. And so I tried to explain what Distributed Proofreaders is, and how Barbara and I have a house full of books that we own and digitize (on our own time), give to 5000 volunteers who proofread the scanned text (for free) and produce semi-authoritative electronic editions, which they then give away for free — for any use whatsoever.
He smiled and said how cool it sounded, if confusing, and something about how Thomson might “buy us” some day.
Not sure what there is to buy from a true agalmia. Which is probably the best insight of the week.
Not standing in sandals in the middle of a maddened ant colony you’ve just dumped out onto concrete is a close second. But that one I kinda knew already.
The “Best” Tonic advertisement
From the last page of a cheap novel by “The Duchess” I scanned a day or so ago, now being proofread and republished at Distributed Proofreaders.
(A higher-resolution grayscale version may be obtained by request, though it’s a crap engraving, in a crappily printed book, with all the smudges and obscuring visible here made worse by lack of contrast on the pulpy paper background. But you can have it.)
links for 2007-05-26
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“…sum tyme thei are in yower sum thinge doinge sum thinge to yt.”
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I expect there were open-source vs. commercial control wars as well, with every stage of adoption of new tech….
links for 2007-05-25
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Quick, pointed typographic Spider Jerusalem rant video
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