February 2010
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Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady →
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July 2009
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Plastic: "difficult, costly, and nerve-racking to... →
Slate has a great article on the difficult task of preserving plastic objects (from the first toothbrush to high altitude flight suits to Jeff Koons installations). Included is a great overview of the history of plastics and some simple explanations of why and how plastics degrade. And like any good article on plastics and conservation, there’s the fantastic link to my favorite line in...
March 2008
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WatchNBC.com > Saturday Night Live - Update: Tracy Morgan
“While I cannot deny the glee I feel that a holier-than-thou Democrat who is...”
– What Eliot Spitzer Should Say To Save His Career (Jon Swift)
How do you build a public library in the age of... →
“Ross Dawson, a business consultant who tracks different customs, devices, and institutions on what he calls an Extinction Timeline, predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019. He’s probably right as far as the function of the library as a civic monument, or as a public repository for books, is concerned. On the other hand, in its mutating role as urban hangout, meeting place, and...
February 2008
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“‘on-demand’ preservation [ahem, digitization] can seem free, but true cost is...”
– Audiovisual Mega-Preservation : Status and Prospects of BBC Archive Preservation and European Broadcast Archives and European Audiovisual/Film Archives
May 2007
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