Via Atlas Obscura, a reminder of the existence of a model of the National Archives Vault and the time President Nixon visited it.
March 2017
The Language Wars, Left & Right
from JstorDaily.
In the current political climate, it seems how things are expressed has been pushed to the forefront of the debate.
It starts with the strange and rambling idiolect of President Donald Trump—which The Guardian describes as “redundant, formulaic, aggressive, “post-literate”—full of bland contradictions, polarizing generalizations, statements sometimes inconsistent with reality (and some, we assume, are good statements).
Interesting don’t you think…
Lou Reed’s Archive Aquired by NYPL
From The New Yorker. The Collection comprises around three hundred linear feet of paper records, electronic records, and photographs; some thirty-six hundred audio recordings; and some thirteen hundred video recordings.
RIP Dmoz: The Open Directory Project is closing
The Open Directory Project that uses human editors to organize web sites — is closing. It marks the end of a time when humans, rather than machines, tried to organize the web.
The announcement came via a notice that’s now showing on the home page of the DMOZ site, saying it will close as of March 14, 2017:
Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library
“It’s really hard to find them,” says Kopley. She had more success looking in scholarly databases, where she could turn up examples that others had written about, and in collections of book reviews. But those searches revealed anonymous texts that were already known, in some way. “The hardest thing is to find a completely unknown or unstudied author who was anonymous or pseudonymous,” she says.
From Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library | Atlas Obscura
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