Why You Shouldn’t Publish with Lap Lambert, German Publishing House

This one’s mostly for the search engines as I’m sure most of my readers don’t need to hear this. I keep getting this spam email sent to me: Begin forwarded message: From: Yasmine Watson Date: February 2, 2012 2:15:30 AM EST To: Subject: Our Publication Offer: Your end-of-studies work Dear Essam Hallak, Some time ago …

Things You Don’t Want to Hear at the University Library

Me [returning 1968 issue of Time Magazine]: this is really delicate. Are you sure you want me to put in the returns chute? Library employee: Yeah, put it in and don’t worry about it. We’ve got that in digital and microfilm format. I had originally gone to the issue because the digital version lacked some …

UNIVAC is saving a lot of people a lot of time

I had occasion to read the October 4th, 1968 issue of TIME magazine (Canada edition!) cover to cover last night.* There is something magical about reading periodicals from another era, where what we experience as history is rendered as quotidian life, and you get a glimpse of how your own moment, as it is rendered …