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The FPP For Damned Intellectuals!

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:36:26 -0800

"[One] day around 1983, I saw an oversize magazine sticking out of the back of the bin with the word 'RAW' barely visible at the top. Hoping it was pornography, I pulled it out. Much to my disappointment, it wasn't, but I'd also never seen anything like it." - Chris Ware

An oral history of the seminal RAW Magazine: Part One, Life Before RAW | Part Two, Life After RAW Featuring interviews with publisher Françoise Mouly, editor Art Spiegelman, and various contributors, as well as design sketches, neato colour separations, scripts & pencils, the infamous RAW rejection letter, and much, much more!

“People who can't get laid read MetaFilter and eat Twinkies!”

KokuRyu — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:09:45 -0800

A Boy and His Dog is available for viewing on the Internet Archive Wikipedia entry

Internet Archive's new data center in a box

stbalbach — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:52:42 -0800

Internet Archive - probably the single largest depository of Open Source content (and the Wayback Machine) - has transitioned its data center from racks of Linux machines to a Sun MD, basically a 3 petabyte data center housed in a liquid cooled shipping container, currently sitting in Sun's Santa Clara campus court yard. Sun and IA have put together an interesting interactive tour of how it works and what it looks like. The new design uses 50% the power of a comparable traditional system.. which is a good thing for the Internet in general because “If we do not start looking closely at our data centers now, 70% of the world’s data centers will have tangible disruptions by 2011 and the systems will experience world-wide brownouts over the course of the next five years.”¹

How to be a 19th-early 20th century British explorer

stbalbach — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:51:27 -0800

Hints to Travellers served as the Royal Geographical Societies unofficial bible, used by late 19th and early 20th century British explorers such as Shackleton, Scott, Richard Burton, Col. Perry Fawcett and other legends who carried it into the field as a practical state of the art manual of gentlemanly exploration. Indiana Jones no doubt has his own copy too. Don't leave home without it! Hints to Travellers, co-authored by Francis Galton, was for the serious explorer. A more general audience might have owned Art of Travel, also by Galton. Sir Francis Galton was a "half-cousin of Charles Darwin, an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician."

2008 Film Preservation picks on Internet Archive

stbalbach — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:46:33 -0800

Each December, the United States National Film Preservation Board chooses up to 25 films they deem worthy of taking special action to preserve in the Library of Congress. It’s a new year, and that means 25 more films are welcomed in the vault of the National Film Registry. Three of the 2008 picks can be viewed on Internet Archive as well as nearly 40 picks from years past.

19th century Romantic poem with illustrated books

stbalbach — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:58:25 -0800

`The Eve of St. Agnes` (1819) is a poem based on a Medieval folktale by Romanticist John Keats. One of Keats most beloved poems, in the 19th and early 20th centuries it became a popular source of inspiration with at least 6 well-known painters such as William Holman Hunt and Arthur Hughes. There were also many beautifully illustrated books produced during this period, some of which are online. My favorites from the "online" link (Flip Book to view): *The Eve of St. Agnes (1900) calligraphy by Ralph Fletcher Seymour - pseudo-medieval manuscript w/ intro by Edmund Gosse *The Eve of St. Agnes (1885) illus. by Edmund Garrett

NASA Images / Internet Archive

stbalbach — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:58:50 -0800

Brewster Khale over at Internet Archive just announced they are working with NASA to make available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video at nasaimages.org. It combines for the first time 21 major NASA imagery collections into a single, searchable online resource.

Jes' some old tunes, is all...

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:10:03 -0800

For your weekend aural edification, courtesy of Internet Archive, a sampling of Old-Time and country blues gems: Buell Kazee's The Dying Soldier (1928), B.F. Shelton's Pretty Polly (1927), Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words (1930), Dock Boggs' Danville Girl, Kelly Harrel's Rovin' Gambler (1925), Clarence Ashley's My Sweet Farm Girl (1931), Charlie Poole's Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (1925) and the Memphis Jug Band's A Black Woman is Like a Black Snake (1928).

Relax!

carsonb — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:09:03 -0800

Do you find relaxing very taxing? Are you tense? anxious? worried? Always tired but can't fall asleep? Are you afraid you're losing your grip? You may not know it, but that's good. Yes, good! Because this video can help you. Yes, it can! No matter who you are, you will feel better—and live better!—when you learn to relax. You can start right now by watching The Relaxed Wife (in two parts). Go ahead, watch! As seen in the collection 11 Very Strange Videos From the Internet Archive.

Simple print on demand for Google Books and Internet Archive

stbalbach — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:18:07 -0800

Public Domain Books Reprints Service is "an experimental non-commercial project to re-print public domain books". It's the first service I have seen that allows simple affordable one-off point and click facsimile paperback replication of any book at Google Books or Internet Archive (millions of books). Curious how it works? Each book includes the technical details (Perl+Ghostscript+DJVU+XLST+etc..). The "experiment" has been running since November and is created by Yakov Shafranovich, a Russian Jewish immigrant in Baltimore of many talents.

Open Content Alliance Digitizes Library Collections

richards1052 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:05:21 -0800

The Open Content Alliance poses a threat to Google and Microsoft's competing library digitization projects. OCA was founded by the Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet's web history. OCA's mission is to open the nation's library collections to universal web search by digitizing books and making them as widely accessible as possible. A number of major library systems, including the Boston Public Library and Smithsonian, have refused to sign up with competing ventures by Microsoft and Google because they do not provide for universal access to digitized books. These commercial ventures prohibit books being accessed by competing search engines. So far, 80 libraries and research institutions have signed on with Open Content Alliance. They must pay for the scanning of their books while Google and Microsoft offset that cost for their participating institutions. See also Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web

The Story of the Fountain

stbalbach — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:33:45 -0800

The Story of the Fountain, poem by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), with 42 woodcut illustrations.

y2karl's 78 RPM jukebox-o-rama

y2karl — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:20:55 -0800

For murder ballads, here's your Mississippi John Hurt's Louis Collins and your Grayson & Whitter's Ommie Wise. Then, for some early white blues bottleneck guitar, here's your Frank Hutchison's K. C. Blues. Not to mention Charley Patton's Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues. All courtesy the Internet Archives 78 RPM tag. where there is way more--like Bix Beiderbecke's first record, Davenport Blues, Louis Armstrong's Ain't Misbehavin' and Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words, among many others. Then, for more, Nugrape Records has an mp3 page. The standout there, at least for me, is Gus Cannon's Poor Boy Long Ways From Home. As for their namesake, the Nugrape Twins, well, the Archive has the mp3 of I've Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape. And don't let me omit mentioning PublicDomain4U. They have Mississippi John Hurt's Frankie, for one. Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Links will lead you to more 78 RPM goodness. And don't forget the inestimable and erudite vacapinta first directed us to Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine.

Take me on a magic cable car ride!

mr.curmudgeon — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:06:17 -0800

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1905). Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Voices from Naropa

digaman — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:05:22 -0800

The Internet Archive just got beat. William Burroughs on wishing. Mystical audio by Harry Smith. Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) on "jism and jazz". Ginsberg reads "Howl." The most historically significant archive of Beat and post-Beat recordings is now free for the downloading. Lossless or lo-fi, saved or streamed -- the tape vault of Naropa Institute is unlocked on archive.org as the Creative Commons grows.

Mwongozi — Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:23:59 -0800

When Netscape looked like this, Microsoft looked like this, and Apple had no style at all, although it appears that MetaFilter hasn't changed much. Go back in time and get all nostalgic with your favourite web sites at The WayBack Machine.

waxpancake — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:03:32 -0800

The Wayback Machine. Explore Metafilter and Blogger from October 1999. Search Google in 1998 or read Salon in 1997. Visit Word, Yahoo, c|net, Feed, Crashsite, Cool Site of the Day, Village Voice, and NYTimes from 1996. Congratulate Mathowie on his new job in 1997, see Kottke's redesign from October 1999, Glassdog's 3-D logos from 1997, and Zeldman's pages optimized for Netscape 3.0. (Unsurprisingly, Jakob's site hasn't changed much since 1996.) Surf the past and share your greatest nostalgic finds.