Happy Friday and happy long weekend, although it’s very weird this year!
I used to work at a newspaper, long ago when news librarians were a thing, and this is how I remember the workplace.
For some entertainment, check out Live from Snack Time, where NYC children tell you how it is. My current pandemic-related favorite: “Adult: Well, how’s your family, are you getting along? Kid: Well, they aren’t my family anymore.”
Have a safe and spiffy weekend, everyone. See you next week.
Today’s Google Doodle is a wonderful musical odyssey which teaches you about the mbira!
If you’re stuck inside (or bored of going on neighborhood walks), try quarantine bingo.
If you have access to some good paper and you love vintage computers, try recreating them via Papercraft!
And finally, the Public Domain Review has a fantastic book on old English customs. Did you know that hot cross buns date back to Roman times?
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How about some games today? You can be a Marginalia Hero, fighting medieval beasts with a click of the mouse! Or you can try navigating the International Space Station with NASA controls, which looks incredibly difficult.
It’s the centennial of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, huzzah,
and here’s a look back at the film. Love those sets.
Happy Monday!
In the art world, there’s a battle going on to save Oslo’s Picasso murals.
In the history world, there’s a battle going on about forged and/or stolen Biblical-related papyri.
In the film world, there is…no battle, hooray, just a story about how several stuntmen embodied Jason Vorhees over the years.
In the AI world, things are always weird, and this collection of escape rooms is no different. (I particularly like “The Room with
a Chance of Being In It.”)
Happy Friday, everyone!
We don’t have much in the way of links today, so please enjoy the sounds of a treehouse with a fireplace during a rainstorm (sounds unsafe, but hey), and we’ll see you next week. Have a safe and spiffy weekend, everyone.
Today we’ve got some links about medieval Britain and modern America to entertain you.
First, the Yanks. At the Library of Congress, one of their efforts aims to use AI in the Chronicling America newspaper digitization project.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati’s airport now has a giant floor-scrubbing robot zooming around.
In Shakespeare’s time, the plague was a regular occurrence that often shut down theatres for months. Pestilence and plague mentions abound in his works.
Over at the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, you can see and hear a whole cacophony of creations!
