As subtle as a flying brick.

Archive for March 12, 2007

400 digitized rare books

The Rare Book Room presents about 400 of the world’s greatest books from a variety of libraries in high resolution format. For some samples, check out: Apianus (Astronomicum Caesareum); Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience); Braccelli (Bizzarie di Varie Figure); Catesby (The Natural History of Carolina…); Dürer (De Symmetria…); Colonna (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili). And on and on. The interface is great (use arrow far left at top for larger page image) but there’s a slight browser resize in FFox. A couple of author names are placeholders for future uploads it seems.


Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows

Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows, an animated short by Ian Stewart. Bum bum bum.