Clippings

"Let no one say that I have said nothing new: the arrangement of the material is new." Blaise Pascal

November 24, 2009 at 5:49pm
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The greater part of those who have written their memoirs have only shown us their bad actions or their weaknesses when they happen to have mistaken them for deeds of prowess or fine instincts, a thing they often do.

— Tocqueville

November 23, 2009 at 5:46pm
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“boy sees lobster for the first time” (via youtube)

November 7, 2009 at 4:10pm
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From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something New. 53 Selected Recipes for the use of Liver, Heart, Kidney, Sweetbreads, Tongue and other Meat Specialties (via Ptak Science Books)

From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something New. 53 Selected Recipes for the use of Liver, Heart, Kidney, Sweetbreads, Tongue and other Meat Specialties (via Ptak Science Books)

12:19pm
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The sound and video are a little unsynchronized, but I love this performance.

November 6, 2009 at 11:17am
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Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk” (via The U.S. National Archives)

Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk” (via The U.S. National Archives)

10:13am
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Fondren Library, 60th Anniversary →

Neat site offering retrospective look at the Rice University library

October 27, 2009 at 10:03pm
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How To Write Badly Well →

October 26, 2009 at 10:44pm
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What I actually want to say is, yippee!

— Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on news of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, as quoted by LeeAnna Keith

October 22, 2009 at 12:11pm
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Mississippi Fred McDowell - John Henry (via YouTube)

12:01pm
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Early photographically illustrated books →

Nearly 1,500 nineteenth-century photographs in an Online Gallery at the British Library.

11:50am
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Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred Becker.

Fred Becker (Born: Oakland, California 1913 Died: Amherst, Massachusetts 2004)

wood engraving image: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum

(via Smithsonian American Art)

Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred Becker.

Fred Becker (Born: Oakland, California 1913 Died: Amherst, Massachusetts 2004)

wood engraving image: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum

(via Smithsonian American Art)

October 19, 2009 at 8:59pm
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Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in a Matthew Brady photograph (via The U.S. National Archives)

Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in a Matthew Brady photograph (via The U.S. National Archives)

October 18, 2009 at 9:49pm
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Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

— Flannery O’Connor, quoted by Paul Elie

October 17, 2009 at 12:36pm
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NYHS Map Rectifier →

Overlay historical and present-day maps of New York City

October 16, 2009 at 9:08am
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A Regular Writing Routine →

Some good advice from Peg Boyle Single at Inside Higher Ed about creating regular writing routines and resisting “Myth #1: Writing can only occur in large blocks of time.”