Found On The Web, January 2012

January was dominated by the fight against SOPA, PIPA and similar legislation that threatens the integrity of the Internet and the potential of a free web to drive innovation and commerce. Given that a quick search will get you all the SOPA / PIPA information you need, there will be few related links in my monthly round-up of interesting, compelling and / or fun things found on the web.

Your Paintings, an online repository of the art of the UK
"Distrust That Particular Flavor," the collected essays of William Gibson
The Beginning of the End of the 9 to 5 Workday
Patton Oswalt hijacks a Harlan Ellison interview

Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
The Written Word, a five-part series from Melvin Bragg's excellent "In Our Time" podcast
William Wallace Cook's 1,462 possible novel plots, conveniently archived on the Gordian Plot wiki
Not for nothing: the fans are outraged when George Lucas messes with his own material… but Lucas doesn't mind when the fans do it. Take note, fanboys… and enjoy this brilliant example of remix culture.

Cory Doctorow reviews Tim Powers' "Last Call," which just happens to be one of my favorite books of all time.
Stanford's Collection of 8,000 Dime Novels and Story Papers
Clay Sharky explains why SOPA is a bad idea


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Folklorist Alan Lomax' Collection Soon To Be Available Digitally

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