December 2011 Archives
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts and Symbols
If your web browser renders characters as little squares instead of the symbols or letters you expect to see, you may need a TrueType font from this site, which has the massive Symbola and Unidings fonts and many others, available free of charge.
Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Collection
The college notebooks and other manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton, free to read online. (More about the Newton collection here.)
Seth's Blog: Assorted tips, hope they help
Some words to the wise (12 tips in all), including where to hide your spare house key, what to eat and not to eat, and how to get your head on straight. Also, backup your hard drive. (Via Ace of Spades HQ overnight thread.)
Et tu, Mr. Destructo?: Game Over: Scans of Over 50 Ron Paul Newsletters
The controversial statements, in their original context. (Via Ace of Spades HQ.)
http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/11/jack-davis-sampling.html">DREW FRIEDMAN: A JACK DAVIS sampling
A selection of cartoons, album covers, movie posters, and other art by the prolific MAD Magazine illustrator, whose work is the subject of a new anthology, Jack Davis: Drawing American Popular Culture by Fantagraphics Books. And don't miss Drew Friedman's story of Jack Davis's appearance at the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival.
Internet Archive: Academic Film Archive of North America
Mathematics, astronomy, sociology, history, biology, poetry, current affairs -- educational short films from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
GoGeometry: Incenter, Circumcenter, Centroid, Orthocenter: Journey to the Center of a Triangle.
A 1977 instructional film illustrating how the different centers of a triangle are constructed.
The American Spectator: Christopher Hitchens, Remembered: An Index to Remembrances
Links to eulogies of the late controversialist and journalist, including one by his brother Peter Hitchens.
Oklahoma Almanac 2005: Oklahoma History
Comprehensive lists of Oklahoma's statewide elected officials, legislators, U. S. Senators and Representatives, District Judges, Appeals Court Judges, Supreme Court Justices, District Attorneys, Federal Judges, U. S. Attorneys, and U. S. Marshals, plus lists of museums, historical markers, Hall of Fame members, and Rhodes Scholars, from statehood to 2005.
