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A real Hollywood ending doesn’t always come from Hollywood; sometimes it comes from, gasp, the internet.
Or in this case, the Internet Archive, which has stepped in at the 11th hour to save the Michelson Cinema Research Library.
Lillian Michelson is Hollywood’s most famous and beloved librarian. Her marriage to late, great storyboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson brought her to Los Angeles in the late 1940s and eventually to Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where she began a lifelong career providing inspiration and information for all manner of filmmakers. Over the next half-century, she would build a cinematic research library second to none.
This internet librarian is on a mission to archive the web before it is deleted
With more information available only on the web, there are concerns it may easily vanish
24 January 2021 • 12:00pm
Mark Graham fears that valuable parts of human history are being wiped out before our eyes.
As the director of the Wayback Machine, a website that records how individual webpages have changed over time, he is acutely aware of how important it is to keep a record of what is being posted - and where.
He has seen changes ranging from a benign spelling correction, to edits in government websites, to the dismantling of media outlets by dictators.
Courtesy of Internet Archive/Michelson Cinema Research Library (2)
Left: Lillian Michelson at work in the Michelson Library, Right: The roots of the library go back to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios
“It’s not a library like you’ve ever seen before,” says Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, who tells THR he plans to both preserve and digitize the library, a resource for such films as Rosemary s Baby and The Birds
93-year-old Lillian Michelson has been helping Hollywood’s top filmmakers with their research since she began volunteering at the film library on Samuel Goldwyn Studios’ lot in 1961. Almost 60 years later, she is donating the Michelson Cinema Research Library which contains over 1 million books, images, maps, periodicals and more to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a digital library with universal access.
10 best websites for downloading free ebooks
Research has confirmed that reading books can benefit both your physical and mental health
Amazon failed to get consent from parents whose children made in-app purchases on the Kindle and Fire tablets. PHOTO: AFP
There hasn’t been a better time to pick up a book and relax, and research has confirmed that reading books can benefit both your physical and mental health.
As we continue to stay at home and battle coronavirus, here are some resources for the bookworms to download free ebooks:
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S Hart. The website has a collection of more than 60,000 free ebooks.
My $200,000 sushi dinner
22 Dec, 2020 06:47 PM
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In 2013, this reporter spent 10 Bitcoin on a sushi dinner for dozens of strangers. Photo / 123RF
New York Times
By: Kashmir Hill
In 2013, this reporter spent 10 Bitcoin, worth $1,000 at the time, on a dinner for dozens of strangers in San Francisco. The owner of the restaurant wisely held onto it. The hell year that is 2020 has wreaked havoc on life as we know it. But you know what it s been good for? Bitcoin.
The cryptocurrency has been soaring, hitting a high of over US$20,000 ($28,000) per coin over the past week. There is now more than US$350 billion ($497 billion) worth of Bitcoin in the world, an incredible appreciation for a virtual money that was worth basically nothing a decade ago.