Supreme Court not interested in Kari Lake's voting machine conspiracy
theories
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Arizona loser Kari Lake's quest to overturn her electorial defeat in the
2022 gubernatorial election was turned away Monday by the Supreme Court. He
laws...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Secret Museum of Mankind
From the website:
Advertised as "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs" and marketed mainly to overheated adolescents (see the 1942 Keen ad, left), it consists of nothing but photos and captions with no further exposition. This was not a book published to educate (despite appearing on some public library's shelves), but to titillate (literally)— it's emphasis was on the female form ("Female Beauty Round the World") and fashion, and it featured as many National-Geographic-style native breasts as possible. But anything lurid, weird, or just plain unusual is fair game. This was a book to gawk at by flashlight under the bedcovers.
Secret Museum
Advertised as "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs" and marketed mainly to overheated adolescents (see the 1942 Keen ad, left), it consists of nothing but photos and captions with no further exposition. This was not a book published to educate (despite appearing on some public library's shelves), but to titillate (literally)— it's emphasis was on the female form ("Female Beauty Round the World") and fashion, and it featured as many National-Geographic-style native breasts as possible. But anything lurid, weird, or just plain unusual is fair game. This was a book to gawk at by flashlight under the bedcovers.
Secret Museum
Woodstock - rare performances
Woodstock,websiteVideo compilation of rare performances from Woodstock. The rest of the website looks like it holds some interesting stuff as well.
"Copywriter Blues"
"Copywriter Blues"
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Funny College Humor vid
Really funny vid about flame wars online sung to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire"
"We Didn't Start The Flame War"
"We Didn't Start The Flame War"
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Scribd - ebook and document sharing site
Scribd
Scribd is a web site that allows users to upload and download items such as scanned books, maps, research papers and original writing. In order to upload and download you must register which simply requires a valid email address. After registering you check email and confirm that you received the message by clicking the confirmation link. I can see this as a valuable resource not only for the curious but also those with serious writing intentions and collaborative efforts. As you explore, you can add documents to your favourites as well as comment on what others have uploaded.
The categories are pretty straightforward if you simply wish to explore. Click the link for Books and you can then define the variety you are interested in further by choosing non-fiction, education, health etc. If you wish to download entire document you may do so in one of two formats (pdf or plain text). Some items however are only avaiulble for online viewing and give no option to download. Also, I had one hiccup with the download process as several times I tried to download pdfs and received the error dialog "Expected dict object" and no doc to view or save. After a brief search online I discovered the solution is to close Adobe reader and browser and then open Adobe reader again and change a few options. Specifically you go to Edit/Preferences/Internet and uncheck the browser viewing and the fast viewing option. After that you will receive a standard save dialog for saving the pdf to your hard drive and not have to view in browser and save from there.
All in all, a valuable and interesting web site for those you love books and exploring for knowledge.
Scribd is a web site that allows users to upload and download items such as scanned books, maps, research papers and original writing. In order to upload and download you must register which simply requires a valid email address. After registering you check email and confirm that you received the message by clicking the confirmation link. I can see this as a valuable resource not only for the curious but also those with serious writing intentions and collaborative efforts. As you explore, you can add documents to your favourites as well as comment on what others have uploaded.
The categories are pretty straightforward if you simply wish to explore. Click the link for Books and you can then define the variety you are interested in further by choosing non-fiction, education, health etc. If you wish to download entire document you may do so in one of two formats (pdf or plain text). Some items however are only avaiulble for online viewing and give no option to download. Also, I had one hiccup with the download process as several times I tried to download pdfs and received the error dialog "Expected dict object" and no doc to view or save. After a brief search online I discovered the solution is to close Adobe reader and browser and then open Adobe reader again and change a few options. Specifically you go to Edit/Preferences/Internet and uncheck the browser viewing and the fast viewing option. After that you will receive a standard save dialog for saving the pdf to your hard drive and not have to view in browser and save from there.
All in all, a valuable and interesting web site for those you love books and exploring for knowledge.
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