Link Love: 2/26/16

Kevin Spacey as President Francis J. Underwood (detail) by Jonathan Yeo / Oil on canvas, 2015 / Coll

  • It happened. "President" Francis J. Underwood's portrait hangs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and NPG's Director, Kim Sajet, appears on an upcoming episode of House of Cards. [via Variety]
  • DC Public Library's Memory Lab has your digital back and can help you digitize your 3.5" floppies and MiniDV's. [via dcist]
  • Everyone's up in arms over the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new logo. What do you think? [via Wired]
  • The Rosa Parks collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs is digitized and now online. [via Library of Congress]
  • Our neighbor has big news. President Obama announces his intent to nominate the first woman, and African American, for Librarian of Congress, Carla D. Hayden. [via the White House]  
  • An animation of all the original photographs of Otto Lilienthal's historic flights (between 1893 and 1896):

Otto Lilienthal's First Film from Johannes Hogebrink on Vimeo.

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