At auction, an iPhone 1 sealed in box, estimated $8,000-12,000.

Bonhams : APPLE iPHONE 1 SEALED IN ORIGINAL BOX. Apple iPhone 1 8GB smartphone, 2007,

Apple iPhone 1 8GB smartphone, 2007, sealed in original box since its production with original shrink-wrapped plastic film, 144 x 88 x 68 mm (5 5/8...

We know about MK-Ultra, the CIA’s spectacularly illegal and immoral experimental mind control project, because while the CIA director ordered all the records destroyed, he missed the ones classified as budgetary records rather than project records. Cataloging matters! https://specialcollections.princeton.edu/2025/10/the-cias-quest-for-mind-control-piecing-together-project-mk-ultra-and-its-princeton-connections-part-i-allen-w-dulles-class-of-1914/

"Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response to mounting funding pressures"

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applie...

I don't know if it's quite there yet, but like the floppy disk save icon this is increasingly a symbol for which users have no real-world reference.

Wow, the beta version of the new catalog is way more powerful than I thought! My first wish, obviously, is going to be for three more wishes.

Ted Cruz should know that Wikipedia has robust systems in place for unbiased information from the fact that it doesn’t list him as the Zodiac Killer or his dad as JFK’s assassin.

The UGA Library is fundraising for the restoration of a 1980 documentary about the burgeoning Athens music scene that gave birth to the B-52s and REM.

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Celebrate 40 years of Athens, GA: Inside/Out — give today to help preserve the original film for future generations.

So the good news is that the Harvard visiting professor arrested for shooting a pellet gun at a synagogue on Yom Kippur was not motivated by antisemitism, but was merely hunting rats.

Pellet Gun Incident Involving HLS Prof. Apparently Not Motivated by Antisemitism, Brookline Synagogue Leaders Say | News | The Harvard Crimson

After a Harvard Law School visiting professor was arrested for shooting a pellet gun near a Brookline synagogue last week, synagogue leaders told a...

Either you can read, or you can believe it’s an open question whether people born in the U.S. are citizens. Either you can read, or you can believe it’s an open question whether Trump can legally run for President in 2028. Competent journalism on these subjects should indicate whether the author can read.

When you have a shift staffing the Houghton Consultation Room, the new scheduling system puts an event in your calendar called "C.R. Desk" and I suspect I am never not going to hear this to the strains of Beauty and the Beast.