The names of the judges at the Westminster Dog Show are just so good—they surpass what any novelist could dream up: The Honorable James G. Phinizy, Ms. Bonnie P. Threlfall, Mr. Harold “Red” Tatro, III
The names of the judges at the Westminster Dog Show are just so good—they surpass what any novelist could dream up: The Honorable James G. Phinizy, Ms. Bonnie P. Threlfall, Mr. Harold “Red” Tatro, III
Feeling very judged by the dog for watching the French Open
% ./library-robot –engage-summer-mode –balloons=YES
One of the great spots in Boston in the summer
Great post by @TenuredRadical about doing historical research in a digital age, and how it has turned every historian into an amateur archivist, trying to bring order to the giant mass of digitized documents they collect and scan/photograph themselves.
Cute way to bring to an end the pandemic-era At Home section of the New York Times
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 39: A Circle of Keytars” — Combining video explanations with maps in the style of Minority Report; the urgency of preserving digital news; the best song at Eurovision was the most humane and the most ingenious
Either there’s a shark in our house or Belle got into my sock drawer
Big ebook news, and way to go @DPLA! “DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries”
Podcasts about the history of pop songs are a fascinating example of how new genres emerge that fit a new medium perfectly. So many good ones: Song Exploder, Hit Parade, Inside The Hits, Inside The Groove, 1980, My 90s Playlist, Wind of Change, etc.
Finally warm enough to sit on the porch, but someone is rudely occupying all of the seating
Incredible weekend at the @Northeastern commencement ceremonies at Fenway Park. At our final event this afternoon, the deans did a Bollywood line dance led by @rechambadi, and then awarded ourselves a post-graduate degree in TikTok #NU2021
Bright sunshine for the second day of @Northeastern commencement ceremonies at Fenway Park #NU2021
About to begin the first of our commencement ceremonies @Northeastern in Fenway Park. My lucky view from the podium #NU2021
Y’all do realize that you can subscribe to most newsletters in a feed reader, thus turning them into blogs?
The string octet in front of my library played “Thank U, Next” when the graduating seniors marched by today 😎
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification”—Science fiction as cognitive behavioral therapy; identifying Abe Vigoda in a large collection of images (and what it tells us about AI); a fascinating story about hip hop in India
Honored to be reading the names of graduating students today @Northeastern as they walk across the stage, please enjoy my puffy hat/mask ensemble
Our library robot is also excited about graduation week @Northeastern
It’s the start of graduation week @Northeastern and we’ve got our celebratory banner up on the library
The London Library has published for the first time a list of the books that Charles Darwin borrowed between July 1843 and July 1845, when he was developing his theory of evolution, and the variety is wonderful, far beyond nature and science.
Between his first vaccine dose and his second, @glass has been experimenting with doubled images, and they are rather beautiful
“Over the past year, academic libraries helped lead their institutions into the socially distant era—in part because libraries had spent decades figuring out how to offer online services and get information to people who rarely came into the building.”
At our all-staff meeting today, everyone shared their most embarrassing Zoom experience from the last year, and it was extremely cathartic
If a single gray pixel NFT sold for over a million dollars, can you imagine how much the entire @daringfireball site is worth?