Lists of fictional detectives
April 10th, 2009
Separated out by sub-genres.
Archive for the 'archive' Category
Type Tips Archive
April 5th, 2009
Archive of type-related tips and tutorials.
Good Point, Kio
February 15th, 2009
A provisional page for every photo on flickr where Kio makes a good point, in tagging, notes, comments, or whatever.
Really?
February 11th, 2009
The Times has a column called Really? debunking (or bunking) medical hearsay. Really? Is maybe the best title for anything I've read in a while.
Standing Pat: The St. James Infirmary Blues Appendix
December 6th, 2008
Even more St James Infirmary.
So Young, So Cold , So Fair : The Saint James Infirmary Blues
December 6th, 2008
Just in case you find yourself wanting to listen St James Infirmary Blues. A lot.
Welcome to Old Time Radio
December 6th, 2008
Archive.org's massive collection of old time radio plays, one of the most obsolete forms of art.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
November 30th, 2008
I'll find a use for this pretty soon, I'll wager.
The Measue of a President
October 6th, 2008
The result seems to be essentially meaningless, I think because the sample size is underwhelming. Might make more sense divided into pre-tv and post-tv. Notes: Carter's little interpolated grin is charming, G. W. Bush's hook hands less so; Madison was really small, and Taft was not.
David Foster Wallace: In Memoriam
September 15th, 2008
Archive of work published for Harper's.
Borough Edges
August 19th, 2008
Each borough's border photographed.
List of Fictional Political Parties
August 17th, 2008
Only slightly more frivolous. Favorites include: Tastycrats, Party of Girls, Anal Compulsive Party, National Bocialist Party.
List of Frivolous Political Parties
August 17th, 2008
Arguably, this list could stand to be muchh longer, but apparently any party (such as the Constitution party in the US) with any legitimate elements to its party platform is not considered frivolous.
quiet american
August 9th, 2008
Site for The Quiet American, a traveling field recordist who makes many of his compositions and some of his source material available for download.
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS
July 21st, 2008
Overwhelming collection of mp3s recorded from old 78s.
Problems
July 17th, 2008
Wikipedia's collection of "Problems," found while looking at the "List of Unsolved Problems" page and going up a category. These range in seriousness from the "Hat Puzzle" to the "Problem of Evil."
Encyclopedia of Life
May 11th, 2008
E. O. Wilson's collaborative project to catalogue every species of animal and plant-life on earth.
Science and Society Picture Library
April 16th, 2008
"SSPL represents over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum."
Audubon’s Birds of America
April 16th, 2008
Complete, browsable, searchable, online version of Birds of America.
List of fictional United States Presidents
March 31st, 2008
"Due to the length of this list, it has been divided into the following sections..."