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Silence in the Library – Another Open Thread

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  June 15, 20118:36 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Books, Open Threads

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My thanks to commenter Brachiator for pointing out a magnificent new free Ipad app released by the British Library called the British Library 19th Century Literature Collection.

It has full color scans of over 1000 rare books – eventually there will be 60 000 available for paid subscribers.

The content is just beautiful and, as the scans include the entire book, you have the opportunity to see the covers, marbled endpapers and handwritten annotations by the books’ original owners, to say nothing of the extraordinary content.

I particularly like the lovely “The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon. A book of elephant and elk sport”, and the beautifully titled “Parts of the Pacific. By a Peripatetic Parson.”

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  1. 1.

    Kristine

    June 15, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Loved that episode–in my personal Top 5 Dr Who episodes ever.

    And thanks for the iPad app tip–love those things.

    Just fulla love t’night, I guess. Fulla something.

    That’s all.

  2. 2.

    Reality Check

    June 15, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Interesting:

    http://www.space.com/11960-fad…..cycle.html

    Are we on the verge of a new “little ice age”? Somebody better tell Algore……

  3. 3.

    Mike in NC

    June 15, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    No worries – the GOP plans to take all of us back to the 19th Century, AKA “The Good Old Days”. Then they’ll elect Ebenezer Scrooge as president.

  4. 4.

    Southern Beale

    June 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Lightning knocked out our phone and as a result our SSL so any blog jones I need to satisfy must be via iPhone which totally sucks.

    Also.

  5. 5.

    Yevgraf (fka Michael)

    June 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    OT on the latest episode of “Hee Haw”, white trash Fox News commentator goes psychopath birther.

    Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, the chief of Stand Up America U.S., a national security expert and a Fox News contributor, says the “Certificate of Live Birth” released in April by the White House as “proof positive” of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth is a forgery, but the FBI is covering the fraud and no one in Congress is willing to tackle the situation because of fears of a “black backlash” if the failings of the nation’s first black president are revealed.

    Read more: Ex-CIA: ‘Forged document’ released as birth certificate http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311433#ixzz1POc5ueTr

    I resent every dollar this wingnut eats from his pension.

  6. 6.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    June 15, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    @Reality Check:

    Your linkage is a fail.

  7. 7.

    Reality Check

    June 15, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Here:

    http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html

  8. 8.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    June 15, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    A short video of Harry with his favorite toy: an empty Propel water bottle.

    The kid also talks incessantly, and follows me everywhere I go in the house. He could be deeply asleep, and if I go to the kitchen to get more, uhm, water, yeah, water, he is on his feet and under mine.

  9. 9.

    Atticus Dogsbody

    June 15, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    @Reality Check: Well, that’s great RC. We can continue to pollute the fuck out of our atmosphere and let the next generations worry about it. Hey, everyone! Let’s all go and burn barrels of oil in our backyards.

  10. 10.

    Alex S.

    June 15, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @Reality Check:

    Sunspot activity has been low for years. And since you seem to believe in the science of sunspots and solar activity you likely know that there will be more sunspots as we go through the cycle, so prepare for a lot more global warming. In fact, unless you argue that we have significantly lower global temperatures right now you basically say the opposite of what you wanted to say. Because if the current temperatures are at the low end of the scale (because sunspot activity is low) the next solar maximum will bring unusually high temperatures.
    But hey, it’s good that you accept science, maybe you can have a look at the science of global warming.

  11. 11.

    jwb

    June 15, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    @Alex S.: Reality Check is one of our lower performing trolls.

  12. 12.

    Epicurus

    June 15, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    I would have thought the “algore” would be a dead giveaway. Also, too, when the iPad was first introduced, I once again marveled at Steve Job’s genius. It’s not a laptop replacement, it’s a 21st century palimpsest. I might have to get one just to enjoy the beautiful pictures you sampled above.

  13. 13.

    boudicca

    June 15, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    There are some scientist who are predicting the next cycle won’t produce as high sunspot activity as we have seen in the past. No one is seriously predicting an ice age though. Maybe we’ll come through this cycle without interruption to the power grid and communications satellites.
    There have been periods where the cycles have “gone flat”.
    But I think the effect, if any, of decreased activity and its effect on global warning is strongly offset by human actions.

  14. 14.

    MikeBoyScout

    June 15, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    Catching up on the news, looks like one or two of the fine citizens of Greece aren’t willing to pay off the banksters.

    Funny that. Well, I read that the Austeritians always had a difficult time in the Balkans.

  15. 15.

    Alex S.

    June 16, 2011 at 8:37 am

    @jwb:

    I know, I’ve been trying a new tactic for a while now: counter-trolling.

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