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Underground New York Public Library

Underground New York Public Library

pixgood.com - good pix galleries Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs By Nick Moran posted at 6:00 am on February 3, 2012 96 [Ed Note: Don't miss Part Two and Part Three!] About two months ago, The Millions joined the Tumblr community. So far, the going has been great. The platform is perfectly suited for dynamic storytelling, and as a direct result, it is home to some of the friendliest book lovers around. However, the site’s SEO (or lack thereof) is regrettably unkind to Tumblr outsiders, and this leads to two things. For convenience, I’ve broken this list up among several categories, but I haven’t put these in any preferential order. 1. Awesome People Reading: Where to see what famous people read.Cover Spy: Where to see what MTA passengers read.Lisa Simpson Book Club: Where to see what Lisa Simpson reads.Bookshelf Porn: The SFW (despite its title) spot to ogle bookshelves.Slaughterhouse 90210: The middle of the television/literature Venn diagram.The Art of Google Books: Who’s scanning those books? 2. 3. 4. 5. A. 6. W. 7. 8.

TurboScan: quickly scan multipage documents into high-quality PDFs Art de rue: entre peinture 3D et effet d’optique (35 photos) | Un gars Ordinaire La peinture 3D, c’est le nom moderne pour désigner ces dessins à la craie sur les sols ou plafonds. L’idée est simple, créer de la perspective là où il n’y en a pas. Cette type d’art se développe de plus en plus depuis quelques années, mettant sur le devant de la scène des artistes comme Edgar Müller, Manfred Stader ou encore Tracy Lee Stum. On voit également des boites comme Street Advertising Service émerger avec pour coeur de compétence la réalisation publicitaire d’oeuvres de ce type. Merci au blog Ma revue Web pour ce superbe post Valeat | Und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen. Goethe, Faust 1 Picasa Web Albums One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Picasa Web Albums Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet This piece first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times on August 29th 1999. A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve. It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change. But the change is real. Then there’s the peculiar way in which certain BBC presenters and journalists (yes, Humphrys Snr., I’m looking at you) pronounce internet addresses. I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: ‘Yes, child, that’s why they all went mad.

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