- The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States commemorating the nation's sesquicentennial in 1926, at the NY Public Library. Get lost in thousands and thousands of photos documenting every aspect American history, from American war generals and American actors, to yachts and ruins.
- Many Bills—a visualization of US congressional legislation. Browse through museums and archives legislation, for example. [via Musematic]
- Lego recreations of famous photographs. [via Merry Foresta, SPI]
- Penny is at it again on the Flickr Commons! Check out her gallery of photos set to the words of one of my all time favs, Goodnight Moon. I would love to see more Commons photos set to poems (hint, hint)! [via Susannah Wells, SPI]
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So far, books aren’t obsolete! The WSJ reports that buyers of e-books still like print books too. [via Digital Humanities Now] - The Reanimation Library. An independent library in Brooklyn using books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation to facilitate “the production of new creative work and promote reflection and research into the . . . questions surrounding the adaptive reuse of found materials.” [via i heart photograph]
- I never even thought of this ethical dilemma—Are wildlife documentaries an invasion of privacy? It’s a question scholars at U of East Anglia are asking.
- How far we have come. Speaking of invasion of privacy, check out this "archival" (as in old) and pretty awful (HR?) video about computer hacking. "He even had a toolbox . . .":
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