Digital Libraries

I often browse old Japanese console and computer magazines. I’m mainly searching for old Hanafuda Koi-Koi video games, but sometimes I stumble across somethi...

The Panopticon Writings of Jeremy Bentham

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

Find the meaning, history and origin of toponyms, also called place names.

Kiptoe is a mural artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Using a bright imagination, he paints with strong color palettes and dynamic movement.

the modernist specialises in books, stationery, homeware, artworks and prints related to twentieth century and modernist architecture and design. It is a bookshop and a gallery.

From a monograph on David Adjaye to a book on the history of cyberfeminism, these are the design books you should be reading this summer.

Located in the Octavia Lab on LL2 at Central Library, the DIY Memory Lab contains archival grade equipment for digitizing personal archival collections.

The Buttolph collection of menus at the New York Public Library continues to inspire a new generation of researchers, chefs, and restaurant fans.

Computers in movies and television shows

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

We are a not-for-profit entity created to safeguard the rich history and design diversity of mobile devices which have been launched over the last four decades.

Stories you can get for free, direct from me or from other sites. They all stand alone, but lead into other books. I hope you'll love one of them and come back for more. (You can get tales that I n…

TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot. What has risen up the ranks? What has fallen? Has 2012’s winner Vertigo held on to its title? Find out below.

The “SSE” sound effects come from the Sunset Editorial collection which was donated to USC Cinema in 1990. Sunset Editorial had a low-key history in Hollywood. Not a lot is known about them. This is because their credits in films were usually just “Sound Effects — Sunset Editorial”. The...

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like...

The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.

Marcel Proust, The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts.  Early drafts of In Search of Lost Time, fragments, but still of interest to Proust lovers. Claire Hughes Johnson, Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building is that rare thing — a good and also useful management book.  She was COO at Stripe, this is […]