User:Ineuw/Interesting

Links to articles and videos

 * 100+ year old type fished out of the Thames
 * New fonts introduced
 * An article from the London Review of Books.
 * Spinglish
 * Arabic typefaces
 * Rio Wang blog of esoteric history
 * Weeding the worst library books by the New Yorker
 * The community bookstore in Brooklyn New York, by the New Yorker
 * The bicycle problem
 * Prison for overdue library books
 * CIA puts almost 12 million declassified files online for the first time
 * New York Review of Books - Voynich manuscript
 * Video about the end of the linotype era at the New York Times
 * Google's plan to scan 125 million books
 * An interesting article about books and libraries in the Guardian
 * A short glossary of delightful library terms
 * Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
 * Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain
 * Internet Archive adds 2500 playable DOS games to the archive

Interesting quotes

 * "I would have been locked up Mr. Mason! And then, how would I continue working out with weights in jail? That's why I told the truth." Perry Mason, 1963 TV Season


 * "All I said to my wife was: This halibut was good enough for Jehovah." Monty Python the Life of Brian 1979.


 * "The ability to play chess is a sign of a gentleman," Chess master Paul Morphy once said. "The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."

Public domain articles copied from various sources
NY Times 1877 article on nutrition

A Supreme Court of Science

 * For and against vaccination arguments in 1910.