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Amazing collection of Meiji and Taisho era photographs

Yesterday was one of those days when I REALLY love the Internet. When it works exactly how it is supposed to. While checking the Flickr feed in my RSS reader, in among all the shots of the Peace Park and Miyajima, I found a gem of a Meiji Era photo of women in kimono enjoying […]


Lhasa unrest

Boing Boing has a good round up of links relating to the current unrest in Lhasa and updates on the flow of information in and out of Tibet. They include a link to a site posting translations of microblog posts by Chinese netizens on sites similar to Twitter.
Here is one entry
What you are destroying […]


Freesound

Perhaps because I have very little original talent of my own, I’m a big supporter of the Free Culture movement and associated organisation Creative Commons. I just came across the excellent Freesound project via the Creative Commons blog. It’s kind of like Flickr for sounds - not songs and music - and once you […]