Biz Stone was the reason Sockington got so popular (made him a default account). And it was a great pleasure to have Sockington block Biz Stone.

This pitch document has issues.

I know this is obvious to most people, but the way that Blade Runner is told and the choices of the edits, I didn't know the Eye Guy and the Chess Player also died.

𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴, starring the Marx Bros., is in the public domain now. Here’s a Blu-ray quality copy on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/animal-crackers-pnm

She walked into my office, all perfume and curves. The kind of legs that went all the way up. "What can I do for you, doll?" I said, playing it cool. "I hear you're public domain now," she said softly. What was this dame's angle? "My father is the Internet Archive. I think he's being... used!"

Archive team, you know what to do

2026 better contain bug fixes and improvements

Pet Supplies Plus does not see fit to include an unsubscribe link on their e-mails.

Certainly trying

Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?

As someone who worked in datacenters for a decade and a half I want to gently add that until recently nobody gave a whit about datacenters any more than they cared about network hub locations. Datacenters employ a tiny fraction of folks compared to a factory and landlords are glad anyone is leasing.

My most precious collection are the messages sent by people who I pulverize in halo

Inbox Zero. If you were waiting for an e-mail from me, I ain't sending it.

The big collab @mc.frontalot.com and I did a year ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w54...

As a pile of properties slam into the public domain today, one thing to watch out for and see are industrial-level goalpost moving by various claimed rights people against the properties. Like the Doyle family has done previously, these situations are going to be annoying, slow, and rampant.

I've been defying the experts, and also this, for my whole life

Happy Jack Smith Testimony Day to All Who Celebrate archive.org/details/yout...

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Great news: the Internet Archive has a 1987 Mark Knopfler pocket calendar that you can reuse in 2026!

"Digitized audio of Guy Lombardo's NYE Party at the Waldorf-Astoria, December 31st, 1967. Includes midnight report at Times Square, and ball drop, reported by Bill Beutel. No commercials, and was taped directly at the Waldorf, and not on TV. Aired on ABC originally." archive.org/details/12-3...

Banana spam Do deee deee do do Banana spam Do deee deee do Banana Spam Do dee dee do do do do do do do do do do

Sure, it's spam, and it's spam for marketing, and sure, it has a bit of a roughness, but they must be legit

This is the kind of review of GET LAMP (or the other films) I was hoping for in terms of the subject matters they discuss, although "two guys chat podcast" is one of the most inefficient information transfer mediums around. The errors in the episode are miniscule. It's fun to listen to.

So, say it's been down too much. Fine. Say you have had disappointment. Sure. But imply Archive has nobody working on the issue, while I watch a dozen people come rushing in on New Year's Eve and multiple go on-site trying to get archive back up after an external power event.,, That's a block.

Everyone get on 'em

A goodbye to Stewart Cheifet, who hosted Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe, two critical computer news programs through the 80s and 90s. His entire collection was handed to the Internet Archive a couple years back. They are being re-digitized where needed. obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

Power out at Internet Archive again. Well, if they were hoping to make 2026 the year the Archive changed how it might serve data, they did it.

Tis the season for me to do an annual gofundme to take the lean off the office rent. My digitization playground and lab costs a few bucks, but the terabytes it's uploading each year are great. Here's that link. gofund.me/a6c552465

The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) [archive.org]

It is back, with some things being repaired.

@pacificgaselectric.bsky.social strikes again. Over 11200 customers without electricity in Presidio, Richmond, & Sunset Districts in #SanFrancisco. ETA for restoration 1:15am PT. pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools... #SFPowerOutage #PG&E

Making the Archive no longer reliant on San Francisco power (which used to be pretty good) is one of the Big Projects.

Yes, the archive is down again. Yes, it's a power outage from PG&E. Yes, there's been something like 4-5 in the last few weeks. PG&E has a monopoly. We are waiting for the power to return.

Turned out to be 17 terabytes of uploaded Internet Archive-scanned books to the Internet Archive. We already had them!

The experiment is over, and I thank the 25 people who hopped in to try it out. I learned a lot! Thank you all. More fun in the future.

I am fascinated at the idea that in some way anyone believes that Spanish flu was a lab leak, a lab leak that resulted in a disease that killed Trump's grandfather, giving his family the funds to begin their business interests

I am so inclined to make some sort of metaphorical reference to this,. but it is its own metaphor: Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive. A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!

You bet! Come down to textfiles.com Plaza and we'll get you an office in the BIOC AGENT Pavillion - plenty of parking

2040: what was the AI revolution of the 2020s like, in 10 seconds

DISPERSE THE CABLE

I used to be in teams with guys like this.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

The Ultimate Portable.

Pasting this so I can stop looking warmly at the browser window when my favorite guardian, Mr. Coffee, shows up in his tab.