David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive

[ad_1] David Lynch loved his cof­fee. For decades, the film­mak­er let cof­fee fuel his cre­ativ­i­ty, drink­ing five, six, even sev­en cups per day at Bob’s Big Boy. Famous­ly, Lynch cel­e­brat­ed cof­fee in Twin Peaks (remem­ber the line, “That’s a damn fine cup of cof­fee!”), and lat­er direct­ed a whole mini-sea­son of Twin Peaks in the … Read more

Access the Internet Archive collections with RapidILL

[ad_1] RapidILL members have an option to include the Internet Archive as a potential supplier for their borrowing requests. If you are interested in providing your users with access to the Internet Archive’s collections through your RapidILL workflows, please complete this form. Not a RapidILL member? You can also request materials through OCLC’s resource sharing network. Posted … Read more

The sign of the seven sins by William Le Queux

[ad_1] Author Le Queux, William, 1864-1927 Title The sign of the seven sins Original Publication Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. Credits Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Language English Category Text EBook-No. 76685 Release … Read more

Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver

[ad_1] Pur­ple may not be one of the most pop­u­lar col­ors in the appar­el of our age, but if you want it — as cer­tain cul­tur­al fig­ures have amply demon­strat­ed — you can get as much of it as you like, even if you don’t belong to the aris­toc­ra­cy. That was­n’t the case in antiq­ui­ty, … Read more

Digitizing Democracy: Louis Brizuela Takes Viewers Behind Microfiche Scanning Livestream

[ad_1] Louis Brizuela Louis Brizuela says managing the microfiche digitization center for Democracy’s Library gives him a sense of pride. “I feel like I’m making a difference,” said the 28-year-old who lives in the Bay Area. “We’re scanning and preserving all this really cool content.” Brizuela and his six-person team are currently digitizing U.S. Supreme … Read more

New lives for old by William Carleton

[ad_1] Author Carleton, William, 1794-1869 Title New lives for old Original Publication Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1913. Credits Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, Joyce Wilson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Language English Category Text EBook-No. 76684 Release Date … Read more

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