World Digital Library
2009.04.22 07:56
Baru saja diluncurkan online tanggal 21 April kemarin, situs World Digital Library oleh UNESCO, badan PBB untuk bidang pendidikan, iptek dan budaya. Silakan klik gambar cuplikan tampilan situs WDL di atas untuk mengunjungi situs-nya (akan terbuka di jendela baru). Sebagai awalan, sudah ada sekitar 1,000 manuskrip kuno kontribusi berbagai perpustakaan di dunia. Yang paling banyak, [...]
Guernica
2009.04.13 23:01
BBC recently ran a story about Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Guernica bombing, in remembrance of the tragic event, which occured on April 26, 1937. Guernica, a historical Basque town in the Biscay province, was victim to a particularly controversial type of air-raid bombing –known as “terror bombing“– during the Spanish Civil War. Immortalized in [...]
From computers with love (resurrected)
2009.04.11 10:16
Now this is so cool. Too cool :p German media-artist-slash-computer-researcher David Link has made an emulator of the Manchester Mark 1 computer, virtually resurrecting it, to run Christopher Strachey‘s “Love-Letters” program –a program churning out randomly different love letters. Here is a link to the emulator. Just refresh your browser to get a different string [...]
Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
2009.03.21 11:44
I got this link from a mailing list I’m subscribed to. Hopefully it will be useful for anyone interested… http://digital.library.cornell.edu/c/cmip/index.html As the name implies, it is Cornell University’s (digital) repository of classic works related to contemporary Indonesian history. This includes the “Cornell papers” on the October 1, 1965 coup… Cornell’s digital library itself is: http://digital.library.cornell.edu
Pretext for Mass Murder
2009.03.14 12:30
I just finished reading: Pretext for Mass Murder The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa Assistant professor of history University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Published: The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Incoherence of the Facts 3. The Supardjo Document 4. Sjam [...]
Open Veins of Latin America etc.
2009.03.06 23:13
I’m currently reading the book… Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano …in between the time that I’m supposed to finish up an assignment :p Just half way through, I’m already liking this book a lot, by the way the author wrenches our feelings with the [...]
