Sat Apr 20 2013 14:58 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudodoxia.html:
Sir Thomas Browne takes out the trash
Mon Mar 26 2012 15:04 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How_It_Feels_to_Be_Forcibly_Fed:
Djuna Barnes undergoes the British suffragette torture.
Thu Mar 22 2012 19:35 35mm Stock Footage : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive:
We've got that B-roll
Wed Jan 04 2012 23:42 Galaxy Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive:
Why OCR when you can scan?
Sun May 22 2011 12:00 Fontenelle:
I liked "The Elegant Universe", but cool.
Wed May 11 2011 16:47 http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields&filter%255B%255D=resource_facet%253A%2522Resource%20available%20online%2522:
What a "relief"! I got nothing
Sun Jan 18 2009 12:43 EST http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Young_Lord_Hamlet.jpg:
Yorick bearing Hamlet on his back, as per the speech
Sat Apr 12 2008 21:48 EST Sears Roebuck & Co.; Catalog No. 112.:
Much cheaper but also in much worse shape
Sat Apr 12 2008 21:34 EST Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog No. 121 - 1910 - SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., :
Such is the price of genius! ($250)
Wed Mar 19 2008 23:14 EST
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Great Potlatch Riots, by Allen Kim Lang
:
Heavy-handed and also has officers fraternizing with the enlisted men.
Mon Mar 17 2008 09:03 EST
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2, by W. Grant Hague, M. D.
:
Need some creepiness? Here you go!
Tue Feb 26 2008 14:51 EST Girlebooks - free ebooks by the gals | Ebook Download:
Sounds fun. (didn't I read about this in Oxford Book of Humorous Prose?)
Sun Jan 13 2008 22:59 EST Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore - Project Gutenberg:
A classic among classics--not that I've read it.
Sun Dec 23 2007 12:34 EST On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying by Mark Twain:
I really admire the old-time ability to just whip out classical references: lying is "the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse,"
Wed Sep 26 2007 16:34 EST On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - Project Gutenberg:
I guess now there's an HTML version?
Wed Sep 26 2007 16:33 EST Electricity for Boys by J. S. Zerbe - Project Gutenberg:
The original "Dangerous Book for Boys"
Mon Aug 06 2007 07:08 PST Ambrose Bierce, Fantastic Fables:
Ridiculous one-liners spun into paragraph-length shaggy dog stories
Fri Aug 03 2007 09:15 PST
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism.
:
A topic of interest to me.
Thu Jul 12 2007 14:44 PST Project Gutenberg Edition of Our Village:
Methinks the various women in my life would enjoy this.
Thu Jul 12 2007 08:37 PST The Heroine (1813) by Eaton Stannard Barrett (Valancourt Classics):
I read a bit of this and it was quite funny.
Tue Jul 10 2007 20:16 PST OMACL: Heimskringla:
Hal-endorsed
Thu Jul 05 2007 21:14 PST CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - Home:
Unfortunate metaphor?
Fri Jun 29 2007 19:36 PST manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader:
An ebook beautification project, with old covers.
Fri Jun 29 2007 18:51 PST Category:Bookshelf - Gutenberg:
Prototype classification system for Gutenberg texts
Wed Jun 13 2007 09:13 PST The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville - Project Gutenberg:
At last! Excellent book.
Sat Jun 09 2007 18:22 PST The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Publius Ovidius Naso - Project Gutenberg:
Va-voom! I'm gone!
Sat Jun 09 2007 13:32 PST Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia, or Vulgar Errors:
The Snopes of his day. "That there are severall passages for meate and drinke."
Wed Jun 06 2007 19:42 PST
public.resource.org Home Page
:
An excellent gateway hack.
Sun Jun 03 2007 09:24 PST Internet Archive: Details: Are You Ready For Marriage? 2004:
Pretty fun, though the jokes aren't great.
Fri Jun 01 2007 20:02 PST
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bibliomania in The Middle Ages, by F. Somner Merryweather
:
I think it was spread by rats
Fri Jun 01 2007 19:50 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gambler's World by Keith Laumer.:
Wow, a Retief story in public domain due to unrenewed copyright. It's one I've read but I don't remember whether or not it's good. Nice 1961 Retief drawing.
Sun May 06 2007 18:54 PST
Charles Dickens,
by Charles Kent.
:
Who was Charles Foster Kent?
Fri May 04 2007 20:16 PST The Bibliotaph and Other People, by Leon H. Vincent.:
Lots of anecdotes
Thu Apr 26 2007 14:58 PST DigitalBookIndex: World's Virtual Library (90,000+ FREE eBooks,
eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments):
Haven't used, makes you log in
Thu Apr 26 2007 14:49 PST DigitalBookIndex: World's Virtual Library (90,000+ FREE eBooks,
eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments):
Haven't used, makes you log in
Tue Apr 24 2007 19:04 PST The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift - Project Gutenberg:
Includes "On Poetry". When letters are in vulgar shapes/'Tis ten to one the wit escapes/But, when in capitals express'd/The dullest reader smokes the jest
Tue Apr 24 2007 18:07 PST Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection:
This Medieval Life
Wed Feb 28 2007 19:30 PST
The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation, by Thorstein Veblen.
:
Nice outline!
Mon Feb 12 2007 19:39 PST Public Domain paintings by Don Davis:
It's mine! All mine!
Sat Jan 27 2007 15:50 PST FSI Language Courses:
Holy crap!
Mon Jan 22 2007 16:27 PST morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.:
More free(?) photos
Wed Jan 10 2007 20:17 PST Internet Archive: Details: Royal Wedding:
Another copyright renewal mishap?
Sun Dec 31 2006 19:53 PST:
REST Is about avoiding implicit or unnamed state. resource state is named by URIs
Sun Dec 31 2006 19:49 PST KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Free Sounds, Pictures and Software:
Things? Free? It'll never catch on!
Wed Dec 27 2006 18:26 PST Thing Worth Knowing:
Wouldn't you be wearing mourning colors more or less constantly back then?
Sat Dec 09 2006 15:33 PST Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) by James Gillespie Blaine - Project Gutenberg:
People yellin' at each other
Sat Dec 09 2006 08:32 PST The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Gilbert K. Chesterton - Project Gutenberg:
Finally!
Wed Oct 04 2006 20:36 PST Sources for Scan Harvesting - DPWiki:
Not as ominous as it sounds: lots of PD page images
Thu Sep 28 2006 20:19 PST The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood - Project Gutenberg:
I was just reading about the revisionist reevaluation of Caroll's life
Mon Sep 11 2006 18:14 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beam_Piper:
Wrote "The Cosmic Computer" *and* "Murder in the Gunroom"
Sun Jul 30 2006 17:56 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_Dunsany:
Still more (I'm reading a history of SF, in case you're wondering)
Sun Jul 30 2006 17:31 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson:
Both novels on Gutenberg. "Nauseatingly sticky romantic sentimentality" -- H.P. Lovecraft
Sun Jul 30 2006 06:36 PST Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum by Ludvig Holberg - Project Gutenberg:
Here it is in Finnish, if you're Jarno (who's probably already read it)
Sun Jul 30 2006 06:20 PST Nicolas Klim's Underground Journey:
Includes tree people, apparently
Tue Jul 11 2006 20:09 PST The Geoponica (Agricultural Pursuits):
I deem it awesome
Thu Jul 06 2006 14:56 PST Jamendo : Open your ears:
I suspect the french are behind this
Sat Jul 01 2006 06:14 PST Directory of FREE Online Books:
Gutenberg + others, in an annoying Javascripty interface
Tue Jun 27 2006 15:24 PST The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray - Project Gutenberg:
Looks amusing
Mon Jun 26 2006 09:17 PST Gutenkarte » Book Catalog :
Buggy but a great idea (also thinks Gaul is in india)
Sun Jun 25 2006 11:05 PST NEWTITLE - New Titles:
Much more usable version of the old Catalog of US Government Publications site. Which means I can't use it as a bad example anymore. Now only updated once a month though. It looks like the govt is putting video up on Google Video??
Thu Jun 22 2006 20:03 PST Frederick J. Drake & Company Book Catalogue: 1903:
"Choice Dialogue and Vaudeville Stage Jokes". Let me tell you about my friend Ikey Cohen...
Fri Jun 09 2006 18:08 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet, by Harold Leland Goodwin:
Rake That Radiation!
Thu Jun 08 2006 16:07 PST Enquire Within Upon Everything by Anonymous - Project Gutenberg:
Truly excellent (via Kevan)
Thu Jun 01 2006 21:02 PST Recent Tracks - CC Hits:
All the hits
Sat May 27 2006 21:41 PST Internet Archive Search: subject:"Commercial catalogs":
Subject: things that are awesome
Thu May 04 2006 22:44 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange:
It's unlikely that I will ever be able to write a sentence like "The ludicrous is in its character so elusive and protean, and the field over which it extends is so vast, that few have ever undertaken the task of examining it systematically."
Thu Apr 13 2006 19:37 PST Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson - Project Gutenberg:
This grabbed me
Fri Feb 03 2006 20:49 PST "How to Camp Out":
"Joe. (Worthless.)" RPG tables for real-life "Three Men in a Boat" style living
Fri Feb 03 2006 20:01 PST http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17490/17490-h/17490-h.htm\:
Hey, remember when Socrates got totally stoned?
Fri Dec 23 2005 21:55 PST http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/sfboh10.txt:
What You Leave Behind
Thu Dec 22 2005 20:33 PST W. James: The Varieties of Religious Experience (Table of Contents):
In leiu of lugging the book around
Mon Dec 19 2005 22:05 PST Goethe's Faust:
Another one I had to keep "find the text" in my brain
Mon Dec 19 2005 22:04 PST
Oblomov, Ivan Goncharev, 1858, 1915
:
I promised I'd look this up on the web when I got back from the bookstore, so here it is
Sun Oct 23 2005 10:09 PST The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox - Project Gutenberg:
In case you couldn't get enough of that one part of "Cryptonomicon"
Tue Sep 27 2005 09:16 PST Heretics by G. K. Chesterton - Project Gutenberg:
Off my wish list it goes
Wed Aug 10 2005 16:45 PST The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments by Brooks - Project Gutenberg:
Last-minute del.icio.us link dumping
Mon Aug 08 2005 16:50 PST The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain by Mark Twain - Project Gutenberg:
Wow
Mon Aug 08 2005 16:50 PST The Pot of Gold by Mary E. Wilkins - Project Gutenberg:
Interesting captions-as-story here.
Tue Jul 12 2005 12:25 PST Essay on Wit:
Standards, gentlemen! We must have standards!
Tue Jul 12 2005 11:45 PST The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas père - Project Gutenberg:
Dumas really sucks you in
Wed Jun 29 2005 14:17 PST Petty Troubles of Married Life by Honoré de Balzac - Project Gutenberg:
It's like the start of an IF game
Fri Jun 24 2005 12:32 PST Not that it Matters by A. A. Milne - Project Gutenberg:
Like a combination of Wodehouse and one of his characters
Thu Jun 23 2005 13:40 PST Christian Classics Ethereal Library:
I think this has all the really old stuff
Tue Jun 07 2005 16:09 PST The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah - Project Gutenberg:
More funny fake folktales
Tue Jun 07 2005 10:57 PST http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7filp10.txt:
Has no [pm]enangalan; does have "mangkukulam" and "Manglalabas"
Mon May 23 2005 15:21 PST The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various - Project Gutenberg:
That's odd...
Thu May 12 2005 16:10 PST How to Fail in Literature:
"He who would fail in literature cannot begin too early to neglect his education..."
Tue May 10 2005 09:39 PST The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - Project Gutenberg:
For Sumana
Wed May 04 2005 11:31 PST John Wilkins - An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language:
If only he had completed this book, we would have had THE SEMANTIC WEB
Wed Apr 27 2005 16:24 PST My Adventures as a Spy by Baden-Powell of Gilwell - Project Gutenberg:
Boys' Life would have been much more interesting had it syndicated this
Wed Apr 20 2005 10:55 PST Little Eve Edgarton by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Project Gutenberg:
I read the list of illustrations as though it were the actual opening of the book, and it was great
Fri Apr 15 2005 14:26 PST Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles - Robin Good's Latest News:
free, or merely royalty-free?
Thu Mar 24 2005 11:44 PST Open Clip Art Library :: openclipart.org:
I could make a game w/these graphics if I were crazy enough. (I probably am)
Thu Mar 03 2005 13:47 PST PyGE Home Page:
you get a free ride for combining two things i like
Tue Mar 01 2005 14:07 PST License Distribution:
compare with the past
Thu Feb 24 2005 20:27 PST api.creativecommons.org:
Just in case
"Well," answered Alonzo, "if the owner of the music could not miss what was stolen, why should he care?"
"He shouldn't care," said the Reverend.
"Well?" said Alonzo, inquiringly.
"Suppose," replied the Reverend, "suppose that, instead of music that was passing along and being stolen, the burden of the wire was loving endearments of the most private and sacred nature?"
Alonzo shuddered from head to heel. "Sir, it is a priceless invention," said he; "I must have it at any cost."
Wed Feb 23 2005 21:49 PST http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/8/3184/3184.txt:
He was the inventor of an improvement in telephones, and hoped to make his bread by selling the privilege of using it. "At present", he continued, "a man may go and tap a telegraph wire which is conveying a song or a concert from one state to another, and he can attach his private telephone and steal a hearing of that music as it passes along. My invention will stop all that."
Tue Feb 22 2005 13:42 PST The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.:
i am bizarrely intruigued by this story so far
Thu Feb 17 2005 15:32 PST Directory of open access journals :
maybe i already bookmarked this
Wed Feb 16 2005 14:06 PST Feeding America:
Now in html form
Tue Feb 08 2005 14:16 PST How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant - Project Gutenberg:
it's got it all
Wed Jan 12 2005 16:14 PST United States Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21:
i love me images
Tue Jan 11 2005 14:39 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of Military Instructors Manual, by James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker:
more general wwi counterpart to the vietnam officer's manual sumana gave me
Tue Dec 21 2004 13:32 PST The Classics Pages - Lucian: a True Story:
nice translation
Wed Dec 15 2004 14:50 PST A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives:
"Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I sholde doe."
Wed Dec 08 2004 18:34 PST http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/2/6/14268/14268-8.txt:
"catalog of my misfortunes" or something
Fri Nov 19 2004 09:16 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of 'A Frog He Would A-Wooing
Go', by Randolph Caldecott.:
Often the folk process will improve a song greatly: case in point
Thu Nov 18 2004 10:26 PST http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/0/6/14066/14066-8.txt:
"the Amazon Army of Food Conservers". Also includes wartime recipes
Tue Nov 16 2004 14:44 PST http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/2/1720/1720.txt:
"The Man Who Knew Too Much"
Wed Nov 10 2004 10:09 PST The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough - Project Gutenberg:
A whole book about John Law
Tue Nov 09 2004 14:55 PST Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory:
man, good thing bb is so obsessed with being a catalog of cc-licensed text
Tue Nov 09 2004 09:29 PST The Project Gutenberg
Letters to his Son,
by The Earl of Chesterfield
:
"pray take great care of your teeth, and keep them extremely clean."
Fri Nov 05 2004 14:37 PST Mark Twain - A Couple of Sad Experiences:
"To write a burlesque so wild that its pretended facts will not be accepted in perfect good faith by somebody, is very nearly an impossible thing to do."
Wed Nov 03 2004 10:44 PST The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) by Mrs. F.L. Gillette - Project Gutenberg:
I'm a sucker for these
Tue Nov 02 2004 07:45 PST Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea - Project Gutenberg:
man, a whole book about them
Fri Oct 15 2004 17:45 PST Internet Public Library: Online Texts:
Another library
Fri Oct 15 2004 17:45 PST DigitalBookIndex: World's Virtual Library (60,000+ FREE eBooks,
eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments):
How do you find the free ones?
Wed Oct 13 2004 16:09 PST http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/7/3/13730/13730-8.txt:
Happy memories of "Danny The Champion of the World"
Wed Oct 13 2004 13:24 PST Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:
"a browser's joy"
Wed Oct 06 2004 10:07 PST Author Record - Project Gutenberg:
PG Wodehouse
Tue Oct 05 2004 15:13 PST A Tale of a Tub:
Wait a minute, this isn't hard to read at all! What was that weird hypertext thing that claimed to be a gloss on this?
Tue Oct 05 2004 09:52 PST The Household Cyclopedia:
More old-timey stuff. Kevan, has "Also, a treatise on bees and their management".
Tue Sep 28 2004 16:55 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans", by Edith M. Thomas:
Among a lot of other stuff (pennsylviania dutch cooking!) has 'how to turn one cake into many'
Fri Sep 24 2004 14:52 PST Classroom Clipart : Free Clipart, clip art Illustrations and Photographs:
Clip art and save
Tue Sep 21 2004 13:02 PST http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/0/1/3/10136/10136-8.txt:
RPG rulebook for Victorian england
Mon Sep 20 2004 14:46 PST The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ideal Bartender, by Tom Bullock:
Old bartenders' recipes
Mon Sep 13 2004 09:56 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/4/4/13444/13444.txt:
Another "Eugenics" type book, very similar to the one Andy had.
Thu Sep 02 2004 15:39 NST8NDT Project Gutenberg - The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) by Johnson:
Haven't read it but soudns interesting
Tue Aug 31 2004 09:35 NST8NDT Index of /dirs/1/3/3/2/13327:
Punch's self-explanatory essay
Mon Aug 30 2004 17:30 NST8NDT Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs :
Time to learn lisp again
Thu Aug 26 2004 06:27 NST8NDT Project Gutenberg - A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous:
Receipts for their preservation
Tue Aug 17 2004 16:54 NST8NDT Project Gutenberg - Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen:
"At an earlier, but not the earliest, stage of barbarism, the
leisure class is found in a less differentiated form."
Mon Aug 16 2004 12:41 NST8NDT Project Gutenberg - Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Charles W. Eliot:
Most boring book of all time!
Mon Aug 16 2004 10:31 NST8NDT The Project Gutenberg eBook of
Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes.
:
"One gill of milk"
Tue Aug 10 2004 22:25 NST8NDT Open Directory - Reference: Libraries: Government Documents:
More government documents
Tue Aug 10 2004 16:17 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/1/4/13144/13144-8.txt:
"Medieval People"
Tue Aug 10 2004 08:41 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/1/4/13146/13146-8.txt:
"Beauty and the Bolshevist": 1920 comedy of manners (?)
Mon Aug 09 2004 14:55 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/1/3/13136/13136.txt:
Treasure trove of early-20th-century self-help effluvia
Thu Aug 05 2004 12:21 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/1/1/13114/13114-8.txt:
"The Collectors"
Tue Aug 03 2004 14:05 NST8NDT Secret Teachings of All Ages Index:
Ah, "the chemical marriage". How I've missed you.
Tue Aug 03 2004 13:53 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/0/8/13084/13084-8.txt:
"Back to Methuselah"
Mon Aug 02 2004 12:52 NST8NDT DLS: Digital Library System:
Pictures from the Fish and Wildlife service
Thu Jul 29 2004 13:19 NST8NDT Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP):
Stop looking for this link, self! Here it is! (I think GPO stuff is PD, or near as makes no difference)
Fri Jul 23 2004 17:46 NST8NDT The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE) :
Maybe this time I can spell "medieval" correctly
Thu Jul 22 2004 15:02 NST8NDT Authors listed chronologically: free web books, online:
The so-called "Dark Age" was actually a time of great refinement and cultural activity. Here are the FOUR DAMN BOOKS from that timespan we find worthwhile.
Wed Jul 21 2004 16:39 NST8NDT
FirstGov – U.S. Government Graphics and Photos
:
Mostly PD probably
Wed Jul 21 2004 16:37 NST8NDT Google Answers: Web sites that contain collections that are copyright free:
Great summary
Wed Jul 21 2004 15:33 NST8NDT Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress):
Some PD stuff
Mon Jul 19 2004 16:54 NST8NDT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources:
Bargains galore.
Wed Jul 14 2004 16:39 NST8NDT Internet Archive: Search Engine:
Clean this URL up. It gets all the texts
Tue Jul 13 2004 12:52 NST8NDT About The NYPL Picture Collection Online:
Old public domain pictures. Via
http://www.superdeluxo.com/wget_curl/index.php/archives/2004/07/11/new-york-public-library-picture-collection/
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