December 2010
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Two books I would take around the globe
Several days ago I had a conversation about which two printed books I would put in my luggage if I have to relocate on another continent. After some thinking on the matter, I came up with them:
1. The art of war
2. The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
Of course this is only about printed books. I have quiet the collection of e-books :)
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Search for "book" word
Some time ago Google launched - Google Books Ngram Viewer. The company used some of the data obtained from 15 million scanned books. “The datasets we’re making available today to further humanities research are based on a subset of that corpus, weighing in at500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The datasets contain phrases...
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Music as religion.
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i found my heaven
Heaven is a place on earth and it is called a library :)
blackwhiteandreadallover:
Stockholm Public Library
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How the mornings change
Before I started my mornings like this
Recently, I begin my morning like this:
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Remington Standard 2
On March 1, 1873, arms manufacturer Remington is persuaded by Densmore and Yost to produce the Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer.
This is against better judgment, as the business world ignores typewriters completely during that period. That is until this Remington 2 is launched onto the market in 1878; completely redrawn and much smaller.
The Remington Standard 2 is the first commercially...
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