reduxThis is a generator of psuedotexts fashioned after the traditional garbled Latin "Lorem impsum" text. Besides Latin, this can generate Chinese, Japanese, Esparanto, Volapük, and several other "Lipsums".
[2004 Jun 09] [/reading/babble] [#]
Robert Sabuda 's Alice's Advetures in Wonderland
One of the finest pop-up books I've ever seen, this Alice has dramatic popups on the main pages, and books within the book with smaller effects. The text is fairly abridged, don't get this and expect all the details of Carroll's story. The illustrations are not the same as Tenniel's, but clearly show his influence. The delicate engineering needed for the elaborate effects leads me to considerate a book for adults, and recommend careful supervision of children who want to look at it.
[2004 Oct 22] [/reading/classics] [#]
J Otto Seibold's Alice in Wonderland
This is not quite as impressive, to me, as Sabuda's Alice, but definately far above the average pop-up fair. Seibold has taken scenes from Carroll's story and illustrated them in his own style rather than the traditional John Tenniel style. But there is nothing sacrosanct with the original pictures and Seibold's distinct style suits Carroll's absurd situations well.
[2004 Oct 22] [/reading/classics] [#]
"The Star" by Ann and Jane Taylor
First published in 1806, "The Star" is famous for its first verse: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star...". This page has all five verses of the poem.
[2004 Feb 05] [/reading/classics] [#]
This page has links to online versions of almost all of the shorter Hugo Award (a science fiction literature award) nominees for 2004.
[2004 May 12] [/reading/etexts] [#]
This site's motto is that they are the & in "cut & paste". They have various copyrighted books and stories in html format.
[2004 Feb 05] [/reading/etexts] [#]
From the classic Pogo comic strip, "Deck us all with Boston Charlie", a carrol from 1948.
[2004 Oct 25] [/reading/filk] [#]
The Riveting, Super-Exciting, Egg Rearing Journal
A cephalopod fan while looking for a large octopus to buy finds a pet shop with a mom octopus with a cache of eggs. Thus begins a quest to raise baby octopuses at home, a seriously non-trivial task.
[2004 Oct 21] [/reading/stories/true] [#]
A guy buys three and half pounds of pure sodium from eBay and has a party where he experiments with what is the best way to to get it to explode and make pretty flames. Lots of pictures and videos.