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The European Union has funded a €4.02 million (£3.6m, $5.2m) project dubbed KEEP, for Keeping Emulation Environments Portable, which will develop new ways to archive digital objects endangered by the relentless march of technology. As well as games, it will work to ensure that other kinds of files and software remain accessible long after the demise of the hardware and software for which they were originally intended.

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Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the psychoanalytic tradition can teach us much about the often concealed connections between physical objects and our thoughts and feelings. On the occ

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(via @DoshDosh) The central thesis of the book is that capitalism and democracy, free markets and free people, do not, as we’ve been told, go hand in hand. On the contrary, capitalism—at least fundamentalist capitalism, of the type promoted by the late ec

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All the newspaper front pages of Obama's win compiled via Newseum (thanks @Orli).

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Ralph 124C 41+, by Hugo Gernsback, was an early science fiction novel from 1911 to 1925. The novel successfully predicted television, remote-control power transmission, televised phone calls, transcontinental air service, solar energy in practical use, so

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Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history.

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'I'm very happy to be in the semi-finals at Wimbledon. These two weeks have been the best of my life,' said Zheng.

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In 1934, way before Vannevar Bush, Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes”) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files.

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Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Paulo Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed.

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In "Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper" (Random House), Nicholson Baker stated that for thousands of years, paper records have allowed historians to glimpse human culture. But scholars of the future is there an over-reliance on technology?

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Took Trebor's class, yet how did I not bookmark this one? Great historical reference on how the social web came about. Good for everyone!

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An article by Robert Darnton which journeys through the history and management of information and how libraries live with the whole picture.

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An entirely alternate history of technology. Awesome stuff!

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A documentary about how Ray Kurzweil's Singularity could occur, and the arguments for and against it.

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A rawking short video on the evolution of mobile phones!

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James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone, using Twitter.

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From Mad magazine to playboy, print magazine had something uniquely fun: Fold-ins!

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The back story of how Issue Crawler came about...

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From The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks presents his latest installment, also coming out as a movie in 2008. Though the Guide can be considered an extended 'dead-pan' joke, WWZ is much more serious - even tragic - in tone.

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A little code makes for better web usability. Reduce your online clutter and make readers happy! I can't wait to redesign!

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