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There’s lots of nice book history in this video of the recently refurbished Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT Center, but I must protest that Gutenberg should not be standing in front of a stack of bound volumes—before the industrialization of printing in the 19th century, buyers largely received unbound sheets and took them to their own binder.

A great exhibition idea from my colleagues at the Fine Arts Library: "Trying to Forget: The Removal of Figures from Early Photographic Images." https://harvardfineartslib.tumblr.com/post/798016873966026752/editing-photographs-wasnt-so-easy-before-the

@Ingrid Burrington Can a headline be a perfect sentence? (For me, it’s the “once again”.)

Flipboard

‘Feisty’ Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz | Flipboard

Smithsonian Magazine - Stealing surfboards, nipping feet, even chasing down surfers: “Our local sea otters—or possibly just one—are getting f...

The Save Our Signs archive preserves 10,000 National Park Service signs at risk of government censorship for accurately describing American history.

Library Journal infoDOCKET

Digital Collections: Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online

The Save Our Sign Archive went live today. The full text of the launch announcement follows below. The Save Our Signs project (SOS), a community-dr...

They’re talking about astronaut ice cream on a podcast I’m listening to and I’m having an intense Proust’s madeleine experience.

Huh, it’s just a GIF of Pete Campbell yelling “Not great, Bob!”

If I had tried to guess the date of this image in isolation, I would have been pretty far off.

The Public Domain Review

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Illustrations of supposed physiognomic affinities between humans and animals.

Everyone knows that President Washington's farewell address to the nation doesn't rhyme. What my book presupposes is, what if it did?

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...