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overholt, 5 months ago to random

23andMe was hacked, so if your information was compromised, make sure to change your genetic code ASAP. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23988050/23andme-hackers-accessed-user-data-confirmed

overholt, 9 months ago to random

Optometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart is a fabulous piece of graphic design in its own right. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/03/mayerles-lithographed-international-test-chart-1907/

overholt, 11 months ago to random

In 1948, the University of Manchester photographed its groundbreaking Mark I computer for a photocomposite stitched together from 20 separate shots. A newly restored image from the best surviving original materials of each shot reveals a wealth of detail that’s been lost over the years. https://rylandscollections.com/2023/06/21/a-new-view-of-the-manchester-computer/

The crisp restoration

overholt, 23 days ago to random

Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the ethics that are wrong. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/did-student-or-chatgpt-write-that-paper-does-it-matter/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020240503%20(1

overholt, 4 months ago to random

I’m all in on Mastodon. If we can’t make a go of this then I’m going to learn to live without social media.

overholt, 10 months ago to random

Who called it an index instead of

overholt, 8 months ago to random

The oldest printed book in the Huntington Library isn’t its Gutenberg Bible, but a Chinese Buddhist text nearly four centuries older. https://huntington.org/videos-and-recorded-programs/thousand-years-books-printed-1085

overholt, 10 months ago to random

The work of Margaret Armstrong, one of the most successful book design artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/07/book-designs-armstrong/

overholt, 5 months ago to random

LeVar Burton Says Read Banned Books https://store.moveon.org/products/levar-burton-banned-books-t-shirt

overholt, 7 months ago to random

Let me be very clear: no one is allowed to use “turn of the century” to refer to the period 1999-2001 until after I am dead.

overholt, 1 month ago to random

The greatest response letter since "I feel that you should be aware some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters." https://www.404media.co/lol-no-maker-of-fuck-the-lapd-shirt-laughs-at-cops-copyright-threat/ via @jasonkoebler

overholt, 3 months ago to random

Some historical perspective. https://xkcd.com/2889/

overholt, 6 months ago to random

Hans Christian Andersen would hold an audience rapt with his storytelling while simultaneously cutting away at a folded sheet of paper, unfolding it at the story’s climax. https://specialcollections.princeton.edu/2023/10/hans-christian-andersens-papercuts/

overholt, 9 months ago to random

When an email starts "We want all of our customers to know that securing and safeguarding your personal information is one of our most important responsibilities and one that we take very seriously." the next sentence is not likely to be "And we're doing a great job of it."

overholt, 9 months ago to random

The most desirable seat on the bus to me is the empty window seat next to a man in the aisle seat refusing to slide over so he can have a row to himself. I will climb you like a jungle gym, sir.

overholt, 7 months ago to random

If you know anyone who’s interested in Mastodon, but waiting until there was a native Apple II client, great news! https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/ (via BoingBoing)

overholt, 8 months ago to random

The right doesn’t attack libraries because it doesn’t understand their power and value, but because it understands the collectivist power and liberatory value of libraries perfectly, and fears it.

overholt, 10 months ago to random

A peek inside the gorgeous entomology notebook of a 19th century naturalist. https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2023/07/bugging-out-over-jacob-stauffers-sketches-of-insects-1859-1880/

overholt, 4 months ago to random

Well, I wasn't previously in the market for a 18th century faux-book that folds out to become a porta-potty, but now that you're telling me it's on sale... https://crouchrarebooks.com/product/books/caught-short-never-settle-for-bog-standard-again/

(The fact that the spine title is History of the Low Countries is the chef's kiss, if I can use that phrase in this context.)

overholt, 1 month ago to random

The kind of title page that feels like it should be followed with "THREAD (1/?)"

overholt, 11 months ago to random

The blog of the missing Titanic submarine has a whole post from 2019 about how they’re not going to let antiquated safety standards stifle their innovation. I would say it reads a lot differently now but I think it would have read pretty badly to me before. https://oceangate.com/news-and-media/blog/2019-0221-why-titan-is-not-classed.html

overholt, 13 days ago to random

A prize-winning collection of Penguin paperbacks makes it possible to trace the evolution of its logo over time. https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/10/winner-of-the-2024-james-david-forbes-collecting-prize-march-of-the-grenguins/

overholt, 9 months ago to random

Much like the purpose of Newspeak was to make thoughtcrime impossible, the purpose of university dismantlement is to deny access to the language to describe a better world. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html

overholt, 7 months ago to random

As a matter of fact, we have thought about “just digitizing everything” and there are a couple of problems with that. Like it’s impossible. https://fsuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/you-should-just-digitize-it-all/

#Libraries #Archives

overholt, 1 month ago to random

As a lifelong pedant there’s one upside of Tesla laying off 10% of its workforce—the accurate use of “decimate”. https://boingboing.net/2024/04/15/tesla-decimates-global-workforce-rumors-suggest-numbers-much-higher.html