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bunnie huang Bunnie Huang's classic "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" is now free online Cory Doctorow
mit MIT Sloan Management Review drops its paywall for 72 hours Cory Doctorow
cartography Hi-rez, open-licensed recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map Cory Doctorow
banjos Just This Banjo: free/open banjo instruction for an angry moment, because you can't be sad while playing the banjo Cory Doctorow
John Margolies Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow
The world's largest occult library has a public online archive Cory Doctorow
high- Artificial tongue's nanoscale "tastebuds" can sort real whisky from counterfeits more than 99% of the time Cory Doctorow
scholarly publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow
decolonizing data An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
death index Crowdfunding public access to the Social Security death index Cory Doctorow
e-lending 10 fascinating online collections at the New York Public Library Cory Doctorow
The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF Cory Doctorow
voice commons Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow
University of California system libraries break off negotiations with Elsevier, will no longer order their journals Cory Doctorow
rip aaron To do tonight in San Francisco: commemorating the sixth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death Cory Doctorow
logic Independent study guide to logic for philosophers and mathematicians Cory Doctorow