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New Adventure in Etymology: Nemesis
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Omniglot
In this Adventure in Etymology we investigate the origins of the word nemesis.
Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record
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Internet Archive
On October 28, 2025, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) entered into the Congressional Record a statement honoring the Internet Archive for reaching a historic milestone—preserving one trillion web pages. That same […]
New Omniglot blog post: Burgling Burg(h)ers
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Omniglot
Are the words burger, burgher and burglar related? Find out in this Omniglot blog post.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category
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arXiv
arXiv’s computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complet
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One Trillion Web Pages Archived: Internet Archive Celebrates a Civilization-Scale Milestone
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Internet Archive
One trillion! There was no mistaking the number that was center stage at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on October 22. “We are celebrating a major goal of one […]
New numbers page: Tadaksahak (Tadáksahak)
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Omniglot
How to count in Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay language spoken in southern Mali and western Niger.
New language page: Tadaksahak (Tadáksahak)
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Omniglot
Tadaksahak is a Northern Songhay language spoken in southern Mali and western Niger.
New numbers page: Bambalang (Chrambo)
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Omniglot
How to count in Bambalang, an Eastern Grassfields Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.
thicktoberpack_revengeday
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16colo.rs
A Peek Inside the Physical Archive: Where the Past Finds a Future
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Internet Archive
The Physical Archive in Richmond, California, turned into a festive venue October 21, welcoming the public to one of the places where millions of donated items are preserved. Nearly 350 […]
mist1025 (mistigris)
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16colo.rs
mist1025 by Mistigris
Yukio Okutsu
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The World War II Database
Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
Yukio Okutsu
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The World War II Database
Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
Yukio Okutsu
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The World War II Database
Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
Yukio Okutsu
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The World War II Database
Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
Yukio Okutsu
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The World War II Database
Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
Celebrate 1 Trillion Web Pages with Original Net.Art Works: Internet Archive x Gray Area
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Internet Archive
Internet Archive x Gray Area: Trillionth Webpage Net.Art CommissionsDate: Saturday, November 1Time: 5:00 to 8:00pmLocation: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San FranciscoAdmission: FreeREGISTER NOW! The Internet Archive has reached an […]
DOAJ and the Diamond Discovery Hub: Working with the community to support open access
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Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a partner in the European project CRAFT-OA, which aims to make the European Diamond Open Access landscape more resilient by centralising expertise and collaboration, and by offering greater visibility to Diamond Open Access (OA) journals through the Diamond Discovery Hub. DOAJ has been index
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Happy Internet Archive Day!
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Internet Archive
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has officially declared October 22, 2025, as Internet Archive Day in the City and County of San Francisco. Sponsored by Supervisor Connie Chan (District […]
DOAJ recommits to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Version 2.0 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure was released this month. DOAJ is pleased to announce its recommitment to the Principles, approved by the Foundation Board at its meeting in October 2025. Adopting the POSI principles in 2022 was an important step for DOAJ. It has guided
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arXiv joins openRxiv in response to NIH Request for Information
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arXiv
arXiv, along with openRxiv, has released its response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Request for Information (RFI) on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. The NIH intends to establish new policies limiting allowable publishing costs in an effort to maximize t
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revengeday_deadline2025
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16colo.rs
mist1025 by Mistigris
Advancing Open Access in Türkiye
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s open access landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges. Ramazan also proposes actionable recommendations to enhance sustainability and international visibility. Türkiye’
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Attention Authors: Restoration of arXiv login outage
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arXiv
Today (September 25, 2025) arXiv login was down from about 12:00 to 15:00 EDT. This occurred due to a confluence of technical issues, the majority of which we have now fixed. Some of these technical issues have been plaguing the arXiv system for the past week, but we believe this current fix will al
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FCCN to support DOAJ to strengthen Diamond open access in Portugal
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Directory of Open Access Journals
We are delighted to announce that FCCN, the unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) responsible for digital services for the research community, will contribute to supporting DOAJ’s mission in Portugal. Portugal has a growing Diamond open access publishing landscape, with
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DOAJ and CNPIEC collaborate to support open access journals in China
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Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is pleased to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd. (CNPIEC) to establish a joint DOAJ China Open Access Journal Pre-evaluation Working Group. The purpose of this working group is to provide greater support to Chi
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hpm-04 (hermanas del perro magnetico)
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16colo.rs
hpm-04 by Hermanas del Perro Magntico
Attention Authors: Upcoming Scheduled Maintenance to arxiv.org
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arXiv
arXiv’s database will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. This maintenance will occur between the hours of 7AM and 9AM EDT. While it will be possible to browse, view, and search papers on arxiv.org during this time, all functions that require log in will be d
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Attention Authors: TeX Live 2025 now available on arXiv
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arXiv
TeX Live 2025 is now available in the arXiv submission process. What is TeX Live? TeX Live is a free distribution of the TeX typesetting system that includes many TeX-related programs, fonts, and macros packages, including LaTeX, maintained by a core group of TeX users and the TeX User Group. What d
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mist0825 (mistigris)
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16colo.rs
mist0825 by Mistigris
I No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals. (But You Probably Should.)
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www.textfiles.com
I attended INIT HELLO over the past weekend, and had a very good time. Located near Baltimore and spanning 2 days, the event was an Apple II themed potluck and contained about 50 people using said machines, doing workshops and giving a smattering of presentations. I ran the streaming/recording machi
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BBS Documentary 20th Anniversary Fundraise Sale
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www.textfiles.com
This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary, my 2005 released DVD box set. The work was always open licensed and it can be downloaded very ea
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Bodaciously True and Totally Awesome
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www.textfiles.com
This first paragraph is a paradox. I want you to go to a funding campaign and click on a button and support a project. But the project is one that expects you to be the kind of person who loves reading. I personally think there might be a slight amount of people who don’t have […]
The Dying Computer Museum
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www.textfiles.com
One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather amusing in a Slashdot-baity sort of way: You could apply to get an account on a real, actual ancient Mainfram
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The Most Interesting Uninteresting Thing
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www.textfiles.com
Imagine, if you will, a vast river. It flows fast, so fast that when you look away and look back it’s in many ways an entirely different river, not just a slightly different one. It used to be blue with an occasional brown or black. Nowadays, it’s basically brown and black and a signficant amount […
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Harvard Yenching Library Chinese materials added
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The Chinese Text Project
Thanks to the support of Harvard Yenching Library, over 5 million pages of scanned materials from the Yenching Library collection have been added to the Library section of the site, including high quality images from the Chinese Rare Books Collection. Approximate transcriptions created using the cte
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Support for Unicode 8.0 adds new characters
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The Chinese Text Project
A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please install the latest version of the Hanazono font. Many new cha
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OCR integration and library linking: over ten million pages of pre-modern Chinese texts now searchab
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The Chinese Text Project
A major update to the site has been made by applying OCR to over ten million pages of transmitted texts stored in the Library, linking scanned texts where possible to digital editions that follow them. Over 3000 existing texts have been successfully linked, allowing side-by-side display and textual
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Dictionary update
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The Chinese Text Project
The dictionary section of the site has been updated to make better use of English translations. Dictionary pages now cite English translations of example sentences together with the corresponding Chinese examples. Additionally, dictionary look-ups for passages of texts that have English translations
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New Wiki section
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The Chinese Text Project
The Wiki section of the site provides online browsing and full-text search for numerous texts not yet included in the textual database. Since some of these texts have not yet been adequately proofread, users are invited to help in the process of correcting these texts using a Wiki interface, and enc
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noaa-ncei-coral-reef-temperature-anomaly-database
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Academic Torrents
Version 6 of the Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) is a global, 4 km, sea surface temperature (SST) and related thermal stress metrics dataset for 1982-01-02 to 2022-12-30. The CoRTAD contains weekly-averaged SSTs, SST anomaly (SSTA, weekly SST minus weekly climatological SST), therma
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Reddit comments/submissions 2025-05
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Academic Torrents
Reddit comments and submissions from 2025-05 Documentation, json schemas and more can be found at https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift Helper scripts for processing files can be found at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
enwiki-20250601-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2
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Academic Torrents
English Wikipedia Multistream 2025-06-01 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
noaa-ncei-argo-gadr-gdac-data
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Academic Torrents
The Argo Ocean Profiling Network is a global ocean observing system developed to address the lack of data coverage in parts of the world ocean, as well as the need for regular capture intervals to enable both short and long-term climate predictions. NCEI operates and manages the Global Argo Data Rep
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us-va-open-data-bulk-download
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Academic Torrents
Contains roughly 1200 datasets from the VA Open Data catalog, as made available through the data.json. Excludes datasets that have no public downloads. Also includes a _failures.csv for download links that lead to 404 errors, for posterity. About Open Data (from site): Open data is VA data that is f
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