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archive spelunking find

“your computer would run faster if it were painted red”

Arlington Heights Daily Herald, January 26, 1998

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Black and white newspaper photograph of two people leaning on late 1990s computers, one of which appears to be painted with stripes. Caption: “Paint it red” Stuart MacNee and Diana Goldman pose with terminals and hard drives at their computer decorating business, Eclipse designs, in San Francisco. The company customizes personal computers by painting them with bright colors. They turned the joke, "your computer would run faster if it were painted red," into a blossoming business

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Happy Labor Day. I wrote a Wikipedia article about the gay, anarchist, anti-profit publishing collective Come!Unity Press (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come!Unity_Press) after stumbling across a poster they printed in 1971.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113058501401683021

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NYC, 1919: Perched on a towering pile of donated books, a librarian calls from a megaphone to request more book donations for American troops stationed in France. The American Library Association’s campaign sent up to 55,000 books each month to military camp libraries.

via Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40926/

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A scan of a black and white photograph of a woman standing probably four feet off the ground on a wall of stacked books, with a towering pile behind and above her. She is holding a giant megaphone.

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