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| | | | | When a terrible fire swept through lower Manhattan on the late evening of December 16, 1835,and into the morning, many believed the city would never recover. As we've spoken about in our podcast on the subject, "the massive fire, among the worst in American history in terms of its economic impact,devastated the city ... destroying... Read More | |
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| | | | | [AI summary] A detailed analysis of the library level in the video game LUNA The Shadow Dust, examining its design inspirations from real-world and historical libraries and its implementation of the magical library trope in gameplay. | |
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| | | | | Arnold, Constable and Co's new Fifth Avenue store. Today it house the lending library for the New York Public Library. When did Ladies Mile - New York's elegant Gilded Age shopping district - finally become un-fashionable? Unlike the slow demise of so many neighborhoods in the city's past, the end of Ladies Mile was closely... Read More | |
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| | | Lately, a lot of friends have been telling me that they were listening to an interview with Cory Doctorow about his latest book, Enshittification, and heard him attribute this quip to me: "When life gives you SARS, you make *sarsaparilla*." The YouTube short above tells the story behind the quote (which also appears in this [...] | ||