- On display for the first time since the 1990s, a World War II billboard goes up at the National Museum of American History. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- A nice look into Iron Mountain, a company that securely stores the records of companys, archives, and governments around the world. [via The New Yorker]
- The Internet Archive has a new collection of prominent and historically notable pieces of software, the Historical Software Archive, that you can play in your internet browser. [via Internet Archive Blogs]
- Jurassic Park is getting even closer to reality - Blood molecules found to survive for millions of years in a blood-engorged mosquito. [via The Torch, SI]
- Personal digital archiving is becoming more and more a part of our lives with the increasing prevalence of email and digital images occupying our world. The Library of Congress has an awesome new resource to share, Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving, to help you preserve your digital life. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- A preview of the National Museum Natural History's plans to renovate its Fossil Hall. [via Around the Mall, Smithsonian Magazine]
- This week, the National Portrait Gallery welcomed the arrival of Nelson Shanks’s The Four Justices, a tribute to the four female justices who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. [via Face to Face blog, NPG]
- In São Paulo, Brazil recycling doesn’t happen in tidy blue bins, but rather through an informal network of independent waste collectors called catadores who search the streets gathering cans to be sold as scrap metal. A mobile recycling center gives the catadores the opportunity to create stools or other objects made of soda cans to sell. [via Wired Design, Wired]
Can City from Studio Swine on Vimeo.
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