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More libraries - Rare, Sacred or ChilledDuke University has made available digitized copies of a number of books from their Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections library.  The Internet Sacred Text Library has literally thousands of books from a wide array of traditions available for your perusal.  Looking the beat the summer heat?  Try the Antarctic Photo Library. -----...


Libraries - shunned, composed, or hidden"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die… ...in R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." If you don’t have time for a quick trip to R’lyeh, you can find the Complete works of H.P. Lovecraft here. But if you should happen to run into Hastur there, at least bring us a decent snapshot—we’ve seen enough blurry photos of yetis, ufos and the Loch Ness monster to last us a lifetime. You can brush up on your technique at the Photography Composition Articles Library. For more hidden stuff, you can always try The Invisible Web Revealed—it’s a bit dated, but it still shows you more than a few of the places that search engines...


Libraries - free, cheap or abusedYou can find a collection of free technical books online at FreeTechBooks Telltale Weekly is on a mission to record, produce and sell quality audio recordings of public domain material—at a very reasonable price in order to cover a bit of overhead.  How reasonable?  How’s a quarter strike you?  You can’t buy everything for a quarter, but it’s all still damn cheap, and available in MP3, AAC, or Ogg Vorbis formats. Meanwhile, the RIAA continues to show no class whatsover in their commitment to donate CDs to public libraries to settle a price fixing lawsuit.  For example Wisconsin libraries are reporting that very few of the 105,000 CDs they’ve received thus far are useful.  Unless, of course, you really have...


Emperor Norton to get His due?I have to say, this makes my whole day—apparently the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution to name the new span of the Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton. (via MeFi) Only fitting, since His Highness ordered it done 64 years before it was actually completed (the tube he decreed was finished 100 years afterwards). WHEREAS, we issued our decree ordering the citizens of San Francisco and Oakland to appropriate funds for the survey of a suspension bridge from Oakland Point via Goat Island; also for a tunnel; and to ascertain which is the best project; and whereas the said citizens have hitherto neglected to notice our said decree; and whereas we are determined our authority shall be...


Vatican vs. Da Vinci CodeIn what may prove to be one of the most bone-headed PR moves since former veep Dan Quayle got into a running arguement with a sitcom character, the Vatican has decided that it needs to start actively refuting some of the plot twists in Dan Brown’s pseudo-historical potboiler, The Da Vinci Code. The full scoop from The Guardian is here. "Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Archbishop of Genoa and a possible successor to the Pope, has been appointed by the Vatican to rebut what the Catholic church calls the “shameful and unfounded errors” contained within The Da Vinci Code. He is organising a series of public debates focusing on the conspiracy theories and what the Vatican sees as the blurring of...