CBGB
The full name of this legendary punk rock club was CBGB & OMFUG, which stands for Country, Blue Grass, Blues & Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers (greedy or ravenous persons, from the...
View ArticleThe Sound of Riots
I discovered a great resource that adds a new dimension to my research into the Tompkins Square Park riot of August 7, 1988: a page of audio clips documenting both the night of the riot and a year’s...
View ArticleGoogle Docs for Dummies
While working on a collaborative project this week I was made aware of a great tool supplied by Google: Google Documents. It allows multiple authors to work on the same document at the same time and is...
View ArticleNY ONO
I finally was able to locate Allen Tannenbaum’s New York in the 70s in Bobst (it turns out oversized F is in the northeast corner of the 7th floor) and it was worth the wait. It’s oversized, it’s fun...
View ArticleCopyrights and Copywrongs
I have been reading a very interesting book about copyright somewhat cheesily entitled Copyrights and Copywrongs, which charts the pernicious rise of the concept of “intellectual property.” The author,...
View ArticleGIS Timelapse
Geographic Information System technology was probably used to generate this map featured in the Huffington Post this week. The map animates the borders of Europe; ten centuries in ten minutes. It’s...
View ArticleGrit, Glam and Green
Pouring through the Squatters Rights collections at Tamiment, I have become immersed in 1980s East Village squatter culture and so I was amused to find this article in the New York Times Real Estate...
View ArticleSprocket, not Socket…
Listing 5.1 on page 70 of SAMS Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours reveals the source code for a web page depicting a Dorothy Parker poem. The poem’s three stanzas are aligned diagonally across the...
View ArticleNYC Atelier
While I don’t mean to bolster the competition, there seems to be a similarly Greenwich Village-themed project afoot called NYC Atelier: http://www.nycatelier.com/map-home.html The site is centered on a...
View ArticleLosing It All
Yet another glitzy piece about the East Village appeared in the New York Times Real Estate section last week. (I guess if I don’t like it I should stop reading it but sometimes it’s hard to stop.)...
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