Social Media Ideas for Public Domain Classics

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Classics make a comeback in the digital age

It is a season of classics – as Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ made international headlines through the latest film adaptation by Christopher Nolan, another fan of European classics, Anne C...

Public Domain Monsters To Scare Up Your Stories

It's monster movie season. That means people are looking for specs to scare up their darkest inclinations and to make the hairs on the backs of their necks stand up.But you know ho...

Classics of Science Fiction at LAcon V

By John Hertz:  We’ll discuss three SF Classics at LAcon V, one discussion each.  Come to as many as you like.  You’ll be welcome to join in. I’m still with “A classic is a work th...

A Tale of Greed From the 1920s

The White Rose, by B. Traven

The Rec League: Classics with Happy Endings

This request is from Lara: I’m reading Jane Austen’s Bookshelf and it’s making me really curious about the classics. Something I haven’t felt in at least a decade. So it’s a really...

Gothic Horror Classics: 20 Tales of Fog, Gaslight and Crypts

These gothic horror classics started it all, from Poe's family vaults to a castle in the Carpathians, and every one is still frightening. Expect fog on the Thames, cobbles under ga...

A 1998 PDF-to-Text Converter

Originally appeared on code.dblock.org | tech blog.In 1998 I needed to convert PDF files to text for a search engine called Alkaline, without requiring separately installed librari...

The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Mov...

Critical theorists like Theodor Adorno may have overreached in claiming that all mass culture is mediocre, mechanized propaganda made to justify the status quo. But that doesn’t me...