The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers has become incredibly popular since True Detective began. For $4.83 Amazon will print a copy and ship it to you. IO9 reports that 1,602 copies have been sold through their Amazon ad alone. That’s a nice little windfall for Amazon and io9. The thing about it is…
British Library Posts 1 Million Historic, Public Domain Scans to Flickr
The British Library, one of the worlds great repositories of historic information, has scanned a million images from books published from the 17th-19th centuries. The public domain images have all been uploaded to a Flickr account for the public to use, remix and repurpose. According to the Library: The images were plucked from the pages…
New ‘Pulp Magazine Project’ Puts Free Pulp Fiction Online
Before dime novels and even before comic books there were pulp magazines. From the late 19th century until the end of World War 2 the provided steady fixes of, primarily extreme and sensationalized, short fiction. Pulp magazines covered a variety of genres including detective fiction, science fiction, westerns, romance and more. The Pulp Magazine Project…
Get 7,000 Free Audio Books from Librivox
According to Wikipedia Librivox is the world’s most prolific audio book publisher, producing an average of 89 titles / month and all of it is free. The idea is really pretty simple and one of the earliest examples of crowdsourcing. Librivox takes books that are in the public domain and ask users of the site…
Enjoy the Christmas Classic ‘Santa Clause Conquers the Martians’ (full movie)
Ok, sure, it is “classic” because it’s remembered as one of the worst movies ever made but how many times can you watch “It’s A Wonderful Life”? Besides … this one has better aliens (though not by much). If you’d like to save it for later you can download a copy from the Internet Archive.…
Enjoy the Christmas Classic ‘Santa Clause Conquers the Martians’ (full movie)
Ok, sure, it is “classic” because it’s remembered as one of the worst movies ever made but how many times can you watch “It’s A Wonderful Life”? Besides … this one has better aliens (though not by much). If you’d like to save it for later you can download a copy from the Internet Archive.…
Don’t Blink: News Roundup For December 18
In the information age we are inundated by news and trivia, Don’t Blink is a regular featured designed to hilight a whole bunch of stories you may have missed in a relatively small amount of space. Canada: It’s been a slow week but the Harper Government got an F from Democracy Watch while they waited…
Don’t Blink: News Roundup For December 18
In the information age we are inundated by news and trivia, Don’t Blink is a regular featured designed to hilight a whole bunch of stories you may have missed in a relatively small amount of space. Canada: It’s been a slow week but the Harper Government got an F from Democracy Watch while they waited…