Lipnicki! He's old!

Enter the School of Life
Some bright spark has decided to turn this into a real bricks and mortar place offering courses and texts, a self helper's paradise, though there also seems to be the aroma of Lifehacker too.

Timeline of US Presidential Elections
... or the bullet points of North American history in one easy to digest page. Loads to take in, but I hadn't realised Nixon had won his second term on such a huge mandate -- McGovern only won 17 electoral college votes. No wonder the American people felt so betrayed by Watergate. See also these wikipedia pages dedicated to The West Wing elections in 1998, 2002 and 2006, which are almost as detailed as the one for the real thing.

Can a Soccer Star Block Google Searches?
"A spokesperson for Google Argentina labeled the lawsuit "completely illogical. It would be like suing the newsstand for what appears in the newspapers it sells. Or demanding the newsstand vendor to tear out offending pages from the newspapers. The lawsuits should be against the websites carrying the information, not us."

c64s.com - classic Commodore 64 games online!
A gaming nostalgia trip in one handy webpage, no downloads necessary. Includes Spindizzy!

Ah, sweet nostalgia!
I have a copy of Crush Groove for much the same reason. It's impossible to watch a film like that on dvd.

OCLC Claims Ownership of Data In OPACs
Which is a bit like the Wikipedia turning around and asserting copyright. Oh come on!


AE#10: Porous Masonry Walls
Stephen Fry once said that nothing man made is beautiful. Sometimes he can be wrong. Even with something as grey as concrete.

QMx announces the official Map of the ‘Verse
I have a fantasy that when the world does end, and someone else is excavating the remains they'll find these and think this is how we viewed the universe. See also Ptolemy.

'Jerry Maguire' Kid is All Grown Up
Lipnicki! He's old!

Sugar Water: Print, Profits, and “The Paper”
Highly underrated film that I don't think even had a theatrical release in the UK. It was old fashioned at the time of its release and in this web intensive decade probably seems arcane. The rest of the piece has some useful things to say about how newspapers will survive in the online era. They'll never completely die out I don't think. Like books, people like to hold them in hand, smell the paper and print and they're far easier to navigate than anything which might appear on a screen.