Ragpicker (1899–1900) – photograph by Eugène Atget
Today the postman brought me…
Apple - Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Rest in peace.
"I Put a Spell on You"- Nick Cave and The Cavemen, 1984
Via Dangerous Minds.
Robert Blinkley: "New Tools for Men of Letters" (1935)
Reprinted from The Yale Review, Spring 1935.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One) - NYTimes.com
We said, “Where’s electronic mail? That would be so cool.” And they said, “Oh, there’s no time to write that. It’s not important.” And we said, “Well, can we write it?” And we did. And then it became part of the system.
Velvet Revolution: The Prospects, by Timothy Garton Ash | NY Review of Books
With thanks to @oso.
Archiveteam
“We are going to rescue your shit”.
Welcome to a time when there were no guitars… (via Aguillón Mata…) cc @Koggi
(Source: youtube.com)
Computing at Columbia Timeline
I love this. Go on, go and explore…
A Conversation With Jules Feiffer - Culture - The Atlantic
I had missed this conversation with Jules Feiffer, who authored in 1965 an exceptional book titled The Great Comic Book Heroes.
"Yesterday's Objects: The Death and Afterlife of Everyday Things" -Autopsies Research Group Study Day
It’s on Friday, 4 June 2010, UCL (University College London). The draft programme is now up.
Benjamin—History and the State of Exception (Harper's Magazine)
Benjamin did write about Mexican ruins, but he could not have guessed the current state of the country. I had just tweeted this when this came into my inbox…
Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage, 9 June 2010 - ISKO UK - UCL
With the participation of David Arnold, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Brighton, Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager at CASA, Dr Melissa Terras , Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at UCL and deputy director of the newly formed Centre for Digital Humanities and Fiona Romeo, Head of Digital Media at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Free for students and ISKO UK members. Looks awesome.
In Praise of Classic Comics - Photo Gallery - LIFE.com
A new photo gallery titled “Comics in the Golden Age, 1930s and 1940s”, on Life Magazine’s website. Via Robot6 at CBR.