Distributing the risk (pre-pirate bay)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25739026-2703,00.html

The project began 44 years ago with Michael Samuels, then Professor of English Language at the University of Glasgow. Several of the project's founders have since died.
His team began transcribing information from the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on to slips of paper.

They plugged away for more than a decade, and disaster almost struck in 1978 when the building housing the only copy of their work caught fire.

The entire building was gutted, but the slips remained intact because they were stored in metal filing cabinets.

After that the slips were written in triplicate and stored in three different locations.

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Distributing the out-of-the way town

David Farley on the perils of travel writing

“Is that a good article?” I asked.

“I wouldn’t have come here if I hadn’t seen this in my local paper,” the woman from Houston said. It turned out, the article went out on the Times’ wire service and was picked up by a dozen or so other newspapers. There was even an article about my article in La Stampa, the daily newspaper of Turin. In the coming weeks, I’d see versions of my article in numerous newspapers, including the Seattle Times, the Boston Globe, and the Toronto Star. Interestingly, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Dallas Morning News cut the two paragraphs about the town’s famous relic, the Holy Foreskin; the newspapers in Poland and Mexico, however, did not.

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Holden Caufield meet Dorian Grey

"A lawyer for Mr. Salinger, Marcia B. Paul, told Judge Batts that the author had a right to keep Holden Caulfield “frozen in time” for the life of his copyright." (via Clyde Haberman's "‘Rye’ Dispute Is Gateway to City’s Past"

Judge Rules for J.D. Salinger in ‘Catcher’ Copyright Suit
By SEWELL CHAN
Published: July 2, 2009
A federal judge banned publication in the United States of a book containing a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield.

Cheap Trick release new album on 8-track

Cheap Trick adventures with 8-track in 2009!

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