Indra's Net Catch
The Very Best Pisces of the Virtual Sea! Compiled by Demogoras the Navigator.
Reprise: Updated Selections From The First Indras (originally in the NMSU-A Today)
Tired of the same old dry, dull, third-hand history textbooks? Get Real! Go to the primary sources at:
- Antique Books
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- ibiblio.org. One of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, includes software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
- Mayflower & the Pilrgims
- Archiving Early America
- Archives of the West
- American Journeys of Exploration
- Making of America
- Documenting the American South
- Texts and Documents Hanover College
- Electronic History Text Collections
- National Center for Public Policy Research Archive
New Info
The Internet Archive, a non-profit project, emulates the ancient library at Alexandria and hopes to collect and build links to all the free text, video, audio, and graphic archives now and in the future. For example, I found a link to the first 30+ volumes of New Mexico Historical Review spanning 1926 to 1964, an essential reference in southwestern history.
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of two Voyager spacecraft. Both are still functioning and transmitting data home to us. Voyager also is the first serious attempt to communicate with extraterrestial intelligence through a gold record attached that contains pictures, greetings, earth sounds and music: Jack Evans High Rolls house and Chuck Berry’s Johnnie B Good. The mission gloden record homepage at NASA: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html.
The Planetary Society has a wealth of info on our stellar neighborhood and an excellent historical article on Voyager: http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0821_Voyager_Celebrates_Thirty_Years_in.html.
Several other sites provide the Voyager record images and music:
- Voyager Golden Record
- The Voyager Spacecraft Interstellar Record
- Voyager's Greetings to the Universe
The NMSUA Library also has the book on Voyager and the golden record: Murmers of Earth, Sagan, et al.: TL789.8.U6 V685 1979