How to Carbon-Date a Web Page | MIT Technology Review… cool like the Way Back Machine.
Doomed Movie girl
Witch
Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians
It’s still not available for purchase, but see there? In the Amazon preview? There I am at chapter four! In: Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians: Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl, Lisa Fraser: 9780810890527: Amazon.com: Books.
NASA Announces the Discovery of the Most Interesting Planetary System Outside Our Own
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Awesome news (I can’t wait to meet the aliens):
Taking over the world
I am really excited and really nervous. I’ve got an editorial style cartoon published in an honest to goodness professional journal. I feel like I am using my powers for evil, cause, you know, I am the associate editor of that journal. Anyway, yay! And, there it is.
I’m not sure how much non subscribers will be able to see…
From the Editor: E-books Building the New Subscription Library
LeEtta M. Schmidt
Journal of Interlibrary Loan,Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve
Vol. 23, Iss. 1, 2013
catapillarish
Scarfolk Council
Public service message from the Scarfolk Council.
Worldviews 2013 conference and the war on information
“There is a war on information in our country. On the media, on academics, on libraries, on archives, on the census – the list keeps going. We need to understand the ‘why’ of things, and cutting away our ability to make informed decisions will invariably derail our country.”
-Westheimer at the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education.
I can’t say anything better than this quote, except maybe, that Canada is not the only country in this situation.
doodling
Ghosts of Tiny Animals
There is no comic posting on the drawing board today. In the meantime, I heartily suggest checking out the Ghosts of Tiny Animals. It is infrequently updated, but so beautiful.
We are all Alice here
I had this idea, and then I kinda started working on it, and then I put all my messy sketches together and spent a lot of time coloring it, and now I have this. Alice’s tea party, with Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice and Alice. She’s schizophrenic, you know.
Library Archives
Did you know that Libraries have collections of truly interesting and rare materials? That these libraries often digitize and create online collections accessible to anyone? That because of library websites/catalogs and their interaction with search engines most of this material is impossible to simply stumble upon? Allow me to help you trip, with a selection of awesome digitized archives.
- Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections’: The Fantastic in Art and Fiction–images and book illustrations of Death, Magic, and the fantastical.
- The Media History Project – non profit dedicated to digitizing public domain news and media on media industries.
- Cigarette Cards at NYPL Digital Gallery – most definitely not the only thing the NYPL Digital Gallery ‘s got going for it, but a fabulous collection just the same.
- Chronicling America at the Library of Congress – American newspapers from 1836 to 1922, digitized and text searchable. Do you understand how fabulous this is? – especially for the genealogical researcher. If you want to add narrative to your family tree all you need is some names, a location, and some time and I bet you’ll find a birth announcement, party coverage in the social columns, news of a legal dispute over property limits, or something. I did.
- The Petrucci Music Library – scores and recordings of public domain music worldwide.
- University of Florida Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature – remember that picture book that you loved as a child, maybe it was the one that your Mom said had been hers when she was growing up. I imagine there is, at least an alternate edition, digital copy of it here. This one’s mine.
- Daguerreotypes at Harvard – I have always been fascinated with Daguerreotypes – one of the first photography methods available for public consumption and still the details it captures have never been equaled. It’s not unusual that the weave of cloth is even visible in these.
Not everyone can be a library however, the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. has some fabulous antiquities and curious illustrations to peruse. Some of them may even be affordable to some people. And we can never forget the, ever more fabulous, Internet Archive.
Fashion for hunters
Tattoos
Ever since I saw and put my name in for Beautiful Forever at the Light Grey Art Lab, I have been working on a set of tattoos. Now, I didn’t get chosen to participate in Beautiful Forever, but I couldn’t stop. Minus one (and + some details), these are all tattoos that occur on my comic characters. Do you know which one doesn’t belong?