Obscure tape finds and their stories
The Skeleton Library
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Underdubbed - glamorous
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]
The little editor that could
The Sunshine Recorder
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d li
An Indian politician says scandalous audio clips are AI deepfakes. We had them tested
Deepfake experts noted that AI can be used as a cover by politicians when embarrassing audio and video clips of them emerge.
Copy of Digital Masquerade
The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
Minimalist tape dispenser by Edgar.A | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Here is an design and minimalistic tape discouter for all the tape under 12mm.
You Actually Do Need to Understand Mythos
Welcome to the next Renaissance
"We'd love a byline in Big Media. But we'll also be everything from baristas, booksellers, Etsy artists, and TikTok news creators to dog walkers, ice cream scoopers, copywriters, and marketers."
Internet Archive
We saw the www.lostlandscapes.org show which was put on to benefit the Internet Archive which suffered from a fire recently. The show featured footage of SF from the 1920s to 1980s. The soundtrack is the crowd, as they yell out recognized locations and ask questions, etc. The Internet Archive (which has the Wayback Machine) is located in a former church. The grand hall is where the show was held, and you can see that the church pews are still in tact. In the alcoves at the back are two server racks which store the master copy of the archives. On the edges are little statues. Those are representations of people who dedicated many hours volunteering for the archive. The one I happened to photograph is Aaron Swartz.
Sad YouTube: The Lost Treasures Of The Internet's Greatest Cesspool
<b>"I would like to send you a memory."</b> Buried deep within the internet's most notorious comment section lies a treasure trove of personal stories that prove the power of pop music better than any video ever could.
Black History Database
Uncover Fascinating Stories in the Black History Database
The Cruise of the Dazzler by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
TV Tropes
TV Tropes, the all-devouring pop-culture wiki, catalogs and cross-references recurrent plot devices, archetypes, and tropes in all forms of media.
There Are Files Stored in This Video
"Find the others"
Last month I shared the new-to-me Lost Prophets podcast. I’ve made it halfway through the back catalogue to the episode …
