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Things You Can Do That You Never Used To Via Archive.org: For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and the text transcripts have been dependably available at transcripts.cnn.com. This is a just-in-case grab of the years of transcripts for later study and historical research. So if you can’t get enough of whatever it is they’re trying to do in the Situation Room, a one gig tarball of text is waiting for your download. H/T: Flowing Data

Things You Can Do That You Never Used To

Via Archive.org:

For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and the text transcripts have been dependably available at transcripts.cnn.com. This is a just-in-case grab of the years of transcripts for later study and historical research.

So if you can’t get enough of whatever it is they’re trying to do in the Situation Room, a one gig tarball of text is waiting for your download.

H/T: Flowing Data

Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin Before the Banner headline front page news was a bit understated. Image: New York Times front page from April 15, 1865. Via the NYT’s Facebook Timeline.

Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin

Before the Banner headline front page news was a bit understated.

Image: New York Times front page from April 15, 1865. Via the NYT’s Facebook Timeline.

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The History of English in 10 Minutes

A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language.

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Ed note: Watch as one woman works to bring back the language of the Ohlone, a Northern California tribe.

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The $14 Million Book Via NPR: The British Library in London has just paid about $14 million to purchase Europe’s oldest intact book, known as the St. Cuthbert Gospel. It’s a copy of the Gospel of St. John, thought to have been produced in northeastern England sometime during the seventh century. “It is the earliest intact European book. So its pages, and the stitching that holds them together, and the covers that protect the pages are intact, as it was made at the end of the seventh century,” Claire Breay, the curator of medieval and early modern manuscripts at the British Library, tells NPR. “So it’s really the starting point of our evidence for the history of the Western book.” In a bit of necrobiblia, the gospel was buried with the medieval missionary St. Cuthbert and then exhumed from his coffin a few hundred years later. Click through to hear the full story about the book’s remarkable journey on Morning Edition.

The $14 Million Book

Via NPR:

The British Library in London has just paid about $14 million to purchase Europe’s oldest intact book, known as the St. Cuthbert Gospel. It’s a copy of the Gospel of St. John, thought to have been produced in northeastern England sometime during the seventh century.

“It is the earliest intact European book. So its pages, and the stitching that holds them together, and the covers that protect the pages are intact, as it was made at the end of the seventh century,” Claire Breay, the curator of medieval and early modern manuscripts at the British Library, tells NPR. “So it’s really the starting point of our evidence for the history of the Western book.”

In a bit of necrobiblia, the gospel was buried with the medieval missionary St. Cuthbert and then exhumed from his coffin a few hundred years later.

Click through to hear the full story about the book’s remarkable journey on Morning Edition.

One hundred years ago today the Titanic hit an iceberg south of Newfoundland. This is tomorrow’s New York Times. Bonus: Images of the Titanic wreck made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by robots via Scientific American, Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute, and National Geographic.

One hundred years ago today the Titanic hit an iceberg south of Newfoundland. This is tomorrow’s New York Times.

Bonus: Images of the Titanic wreck made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by robots via Scientific American, Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute, and National Geographic.

NYU releases list of ‘100 Outstanding Journalists’ Tomorrow night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will have a party for its 100th birthday — a chummy affair to be sure. But you can already feel the feel-goodness on their website, thanks to a new faculty inked list containing their picks for the best journalists of the last 100 years. Who’s on it? Plenty of favorites, TV personalities and a few authors. They released a list of 300 nominees, too.  H/T: Poynter

NYU releases list of ‘100 Outstanding Journalists’

Tomorrow night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will have a party for its 100th birthday — a chummy affair to be sure. But you can already feel the feel-goodness on their website, thanks to a new faculty inked list containing their picks for the best journalists of the last 100 years.

Who’s on it? Plenty of favorites, TV personalities and a few authors. They released a list of 300 nominees, too. 

H/T: Poynter

Today in Jurassic Technology

Tackling voice and video transmission didn’t start with Skype, Facetime and Google. 

Head back in time and we have Edison’s imagined Telephonoscope as shown here in Punch’s Almanac from 1879  (Transmits light as well as sound!) . 

1910 saw another imagined videotelephony display (bottom right) in a look at what 21st century France might be all about (technology changes, fashion remains the same?).

In 1956 AT&T created a prototype for the Picturephone (bottom left) and introduced it to the public at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. In an exhibit, visitors could call and see people at another installation in Disneyland.

Frame rate: one image every two seconds.

Nelson Mandela Digital Archives Now Online Via Memeburn: Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) have created a new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive on the web that is freely accessible to the world. Google donated about US$1.25-million to the Johannesburg-based Centre in 2011 to help preserve and digitise thousands of archival documents, photographs and videos about Mandela. Along with historians, educationalists, researchers and activists, users from around the world now have access to extensive information about the life and legacy of this extraordinary African statesman. The new online multimedia archive includes Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written during his 27 years of imprisonment, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa. The archive will also include the earliest-known photograph of Mandela, rare images of his cell on Robben Island in the 1970s, and never-seen drafts of Mandela’s manuscripts for the sequel to his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom.” Nelson Mandela Digital Archive. Image: Warrants of Commital (document #1 front), 11/7/1962. This item consists of 1 Warrant of Committal issued to Nelson Mandela by the Magistrate’s Court of South Africa. The warrant contains Nelson Mandela’s fingerprints. Via the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive.

Nelson Mandela Digital Archives Now Online

Via Memeburn:

Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) have created a new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive on the web that is freely accessible to the world.

Google donated about US$1.25-million to the Johannesburg-based Centre in 2011 to help preserve and digitise thousands of archival documents, photographs and videos about Mandela.

Along with historians, educationalists, researchers and activists, users from around the world now have access to extensive information about the life and legacy of this extraordinary African statesman.

The new online multimedia archive includes Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written during his 27 years of imprisonment, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa.

The archive will also include the earliest-known photograph of Mandela, rare images of his cell on Robben Island in the 1970s, and never-seen drafts of Mandela’s manuscripts for the sequel to his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom.”

Nelson Mandela Digital Archive.

Image: Warrants of Commital (document #1 front), 11/7/1962.

This item consists of 1 Warrant of Committal issued to Nelson Mandela by the Magistrate’s Court of South Africa. The warrant contains Nelson Mandela’s fingerprints. Via the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive.

[W]e tend to think of the information age as something entirely new. In fact, people have been wrestling with information for many centuries. If I was going to say when the information age started, I would probably say the 15th century with the invention of the mechanical clock, which turned time into a measurable flow, and the printing press, which expanded our ability to tap into other kinds of thinking. The information age has been building ever since then.

In an interview with The Browser, Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, discusses a number of books that inform his thinking. 

The Browser, Nicholas Carr on Impact of the Information Age.

Click through for the interview and Carr’s book recommendations

The Longform Guide to Early Computing: As the new iPad debuts, a look back at the greatest stories ever written about the first computers.

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The year was 1981, and Pentax had just manufactured their 10 millionth SLR.

To celebrate, they made 300 18 carat gold plated and brown leather Pentax LX that came with a matching gold and leather f/1.2 50mm lens. 

(It even came with white silk gloves for when you wanted to hold it!)

The 18 Carat Gold and Leather Pentax LX

via leilockheart 

FJP: Covet — Michael.

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Fifty-Five Years After its Last Issue, Collier’s Returns Color us curious cause it’s kind of weird in an interesting sort of way. Via Folio Magazine: Despite a perilous publishing environment, John Elduff purchased shuttered print property Collier’s Magazine at an auction two years ago for a reported $2,000. 55 years after Collier’s final issue printed in January 1957, the magazine returned with a February/March 2012 edition. The first issue of the renewed Collier’s had a print run of 25,000; Elduff, who acts as publisher and editor, says the magazine has already gained up to 20,000 paying subscribers. “There isn’t a person that’s gone through the education system that hasn’t heard the name referenced in the classroom,” Elduff tells FOLIO:. “The legacy it carries with past authors is significant: Vonnegut, Hemingway.” The revived Collier’s targets a wide reader demographic (from 30- to 90-years-old). With a combination of closed and paid circulation, Elduff says physicians’ offices are the main hubs for subscription activity so far. The Society of Publication Designers has Collier’s covers from ye olden days. They’re an interesting look at Americana past. Image: Cover of Collier’s Feb/March 2012 issue.

Fifty-Five Years After its Last Issue, Collier’s Returns

Color us curious cause it’s kind of weird in an interesting sort of way.

Via Folio Magazine:

Despite a perilous publishing environment, John Elduff purchased shuttered print property Collier’s Magazine at an auction two years ago for a reported $2,000. 55 years after Collier’s final issue printed in January 1957, the magazine returned with a February/March 2012 edition. The first issue of the renewed Collier’s had a print run of 25,000; Elduff, who acts as publisher and editor, says the magazine has already gained up to 20,000 paying subscribers.

“There isn’t a person that’s gone through the education system that hasn’t heard the name referenced in the classroom,” Elduff tells FOLIO:. “The legacy it carries with past authors is significant: Vonnegut, Hemingway.”

The revived Collier’s targets a wide reader demographic (from 30- to 90-years-old). With a combination of closed and paid circulation, Elduff says physicians’ offices are the main hubs for subscription activity so far.

The Society of Publication Designers has Collier’s covers from ye olden days. They’re an interesting look at Americana past.

Image: Cover of Collier’s Feb/March 2012 issue.

International Women’s Day - a history in posters from around the world.

Source:

http://www.plakaty.ru

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011/03/international-womens-day.html

http://library.uq.edu.au/record=b1961875~S7

http://www.wftucentral.org/?p=2578&language=en

Atomic Blast Via the LA Times Framework Blog: May 5, 1955: The detonation of an atomic test device at 5:10 a.m. is photographed from 8 miles away with a camera equipped with a 40-inch lens. The fireball is about 4 miles high. The test, named “Apple-2,” was part of the Operation Teapot series conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1955.

Atomic Blast

Via the LA Times Framework Blog:

May 5, 1955: The detonation of an atomic test device at 5:10 a.m. is photographed from 8 miles away with a camera equipped with a 40-inch lens. The fireball is about 4 miles high. The test, named “Apple-2,” was part of the Operation Teapot series conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1955.