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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
images.google.com/hosted/life, posted 2008 by peter in design graphics history photography search
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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Den svenske brännvinskungen Lars Olsson Smith
www.popularhistoria.se/o.o.i.s?id=43, posted 2008 by peter in business history inspiration stockholm toread
Hans bild sprids i massupplagor över hela världen. Ändå är han så gott som okänd för den stora allmänheten – den svenske brännvinskungen Lars Olsson Smith.
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frontline: secret history of the credit card | PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/, posted 2008 by peter in business history security toread video
In "Secret History of the Credit Card," FRONTLINE® and The New York Times join forces to investigate an industry few Americans fully understand. In this one-hour report, correspondent Lowell Bergman uncovers the techniques used by the industry to earn record profits and get consumers to take on more debt.
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GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World
www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/good_guide_to_the_shadowy_organizations_that_rule_the_world, posted 2008 by peter in conspiracy fascism history humor list politics
From what we can tell, no group on this list is running the world from behind its locked doors. But those without keys can never be sure.
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Printing a Book, Old School
www.vimeo.com/1063458, posted 2008 by peter in history howto printing typography video
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Codex Sinaiticus
www.codexsinaiticus.org/, posted 2008 by peter in history language religion text
Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.
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20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm, posted 2008 by peter in history list politics toread war
The risks are illustrated by the following selection of mishap. If the people involved had exercised less caution, or if some unfortunate coincidental event had occurred, escalation to nuclear war can easily be imagined.
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Obsolete Computer Museum
www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/, posted 2008 by peter in hardware history vintage
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Macintosh Stories: Switcher
folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt, posted 2008 by peter in development hack history mac software vintage
I had considered trying to run multiple applications simultaneously on the 512K Mac, but I was stymied by low memory conflicts and other potential gotchas. But now, as I observed Memory Shift in action on John's PC, I suddenly saw a simple way to do it, w
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History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars, posted 2008 by peter in copyright history politics
Sooner or later, Congress will have to do for the copyright system what it did for property rights in the 19th century: change the law to bring it back into line with peoples' moral intuitions.
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