July 2009
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Jul 29th
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http://www.wdl.org/en/ →
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the World Digital Library are to:   Promote international and intercultural understanding; Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; Provide resources for...
Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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“If there is any lesson to be learned from the work of Jacek Utko and his...”
– Eric Obenauf, “The Revenge of Print,” from the current Brooklyn Rail. Via:HTMLGiant.
Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 22nd
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File under Films I Want to See: Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Cowboy and “Indian” Film and Newsreel, 1958 I would chop the films up with the tomahawk and put them into a medicine bag. I would shake it and shake it, and for me the bag would become a rattle, and I would chant with it…I was imitating indigenous ritual to find my place in it. When I Imitated it long enough, and felt comfortable in...
Jul 22nd
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Jul 22nd
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http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html →
Art Garfunkel’s extensive and chronologically-catalogued reading list, for those who are interested. Garfunkel seems to have catalogue-mania: on his website there are also lists of his top 60 favorite songs, 25 favorite classical music “things,” and a list of the destinations on his walk across America.
Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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http://www.manystuff.org/ →
Charlotte Cheetham’s web log of printed matter stuffs.
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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http://atlasobscura.com/about →
Via:edt:placesthatpull: The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist.
Jul 11th
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http://www.rarebookroom.org/ →
lukiness:secondopiano
Jul 6th
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Jul 6th
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Jul 3rd
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Jul 3rd
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http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/ →
Jul 3rd
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Jul 3rd
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“In the 1940’s, a woman named Theresa Fox was found dead in the kitchen of...”
– Franz Lidz, “The Paper Chase” in the Times
Jul 3rd