The painting described in this poem hangs in the Chicago Art Institute, but no reproduction of it seems to exist online.
Free fulltext access to science journals? the teasing abstracts, the intermittent reward of the some journals, argggggh
1. Love
2. Acceptance
3. A place to hang my hat
I can download recipes, but not food.
5: I sometimes order groceries online.
I don't remember any instances of this happening, even though I know it has. I suppose if I don't find what I'm looking for, it gets buried under everything I do find.
That would be an even more bizarre phenomenon: losing the memory of forgetting.
Certain comments and posts on certain blogs by certain people.
It was a LOT easier to find music reviews with search engines five years ago than it is now. The first 150 responses to any query nowadays are all stores and the occasional malware-riddled lyrics download site.
1) Just now I was trying to figure out if the Boswell sisters were Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. I never heard of them before today, but still, I was curious.
2) I second yoyo with a vengence.
3) I've had a hard time finding The Deposition of Christ by Bassano but I haven't looked much lately
Okay, my 2c.
Most recently, I was looking for the lyrics to a song that I head at a recent Jeff Warner concert. It was a very funny contemporary song (one of the few of the evening) about a laudromat romance, written in a parody of a ballad format. I wanted to post it here in honor of teo.
The first time I remember having the, "the intenet is less useful than I hoped" experience was in college when I was looking for a picture or a young Richard Nixon (I had claimed, incorrectly, that someone I knew looked sort of like a Richard Nixon -- I had forgotten how early his jowls developed).
I've also occasionally come up blank looking for audio stuff -- most recently a spec sheet for a panasonic chip.
On preview 8 gets it right.
On preview I see that
Suck.com's archives are hard to look through. I've spent a lot of time looking for Polly Esther's sniglets Fillers, with no success because all the text is graphical.
I met her recently, and praised her work. I was pretty effusive, and it was a social encounter, and it was clear that there was considerable overlap between what she experienced as flattery and as stalkery.
I'm also terrible at finding pictures of things. I haven't tried to use anything other than Google for that, though. Not being a photographer myself I don't know how to work picasa or flickr or whatever else Eszter Hargittai would use.
The exact original referent of the phrase "Eastern Promise". I know about:
-- the recent Cronenberg film,
-- the line "Giving an Eastern promise that they could never keep", from Graham Parker's "Discovering Japan" (1979) -- clearly a reference to a known phrase.
-- a well-known (in Britain) ad campaign for Turkish Delight candy; the slogan was "Filled with Eastern Promise".
But Googling "Eastern promise" gives references to the film, plus a million "cute" headlines about Asia (largely about trade, interestingly) that assume I know what the underlying reference is.
a spec sheet for a panasonic chip.
I should add, that I take it as a sign of how high my expectations are that I expect to be able to type a part number into google and get something helpful.
things that you've tried to find online and haven't been able to find
Nude pictures of my cobloggers.
18: There are a few, but cobs, when properly logged, obscure the good bits.
1: Here's an image of the Latouche, though it really proves your point.
10.3: Here's a tiny one, but likewise it proves your point.
Various items from my lost youth in the auld country, which was pre-internetty for longer than much of elsewhere.
21.1: Thanks! That's the kind of thing that amazes me about the internet. I did all my searches before November 11th of this year; I visited the Art Institute in June.
As I mentioned in some other thread, just today I was foiled in trying to find out what happened to Cero, the shirtmaker of yore, whose products were a staple item for American WASPery.
I was actually quite surprised by how nonexistent their web presence was, slol.
I remember another one.
There is a song whose lyrics I came across online years ago. I remember the lyrics being clever, but I am now unable to find any mention of the song online.
The song title was "Second hand smoke" and the chorus was, "Sweet Monique, I don't want to breathe unless it's your second hand smoke."
14: Ooh, an etymological challenge! I'll see what I can do.
In Chicago, in the early-to-mid 90s, there was the Scottie Pippin Dodge Store. Scottie, apparently before he hired good representation, did his own commercial. It was *amazing* and involved Scottie suggesting that I "step into one of these!" Then, without any notice, the store was renamed Western Ave. Dodge, the commercials were yanked, and Scottie was in Nike ads wearing a leather trench. YouTube does not possess this ad.
I've been trying to purchase a Washington Generals jersey online for months now. It can't be done.
Nude pictures of my cobloggers.
Totally.
The other day I was looking for a photograph of Robert de Montesquieu posing as the decapitated head of John the Baptist, and could not find it. Oscar Wilde as Salome is all over the place.
This was a recent experience of mine along these lines.
31: I can't find nude pictures of your cobloggers either, B.
English translations of things like opera libretti. (Presumably unavailable for copyright reasons, generally.)
29 - I spent years trying to find an ad for Jhoon Rhee martial arts -- a constant advertiser during Saturday morning cartoons in suburban DC in the '80s -- on YouTube; then someone finally uploaded one, and now Rfts has been exposed to the horrifically virulent jingle. Nobody bothas me!
But y'all have Moo and Oink ads! How are you not gazing into that abyss every day?
Without having read the comments, and answering straight, I have something, but dammit, it would have to wait until I get into the bookshop tomorrow. A medical journal on quackery in the UK, early 19th century. Fascinating recountings of strange behaviour on the part of medical practitioners.
Not a thing online, yet here it is, a run of neatly bound annuals chronicling the waving of hands, the application of potions, and so on.
snarkout -- Oh yes. The Moo and Oink oeuvre is truly without peer.
Then, without any notice, the store was renamed Western Ave. Dodge
At Western & Grandville, only a couple of blocks from my house. I always wondered what the Scottie story was: like you say, it just changed, although about the same time as the allegations of abusing the girlfriend, I thought. So I always assumed a connection.
Because I am a giant nerd, I often find myself looking for mid-century science fiction stories that I assume should be only (legitimately or il-), which generally aren't. There's some R.A. Lafferty kicking around, at least. I used to complain about not being able to find contemporary poetry, but this is either less true than it used to be or I've gotten better about finding it -- I had this transcribed in my email for years because I often wanted to refer back to it without digging out my notes from the class where I encountered it (and it's not in Komunyakaa's collection Neon Vernacular, which I own).
Oh, on the ad kick -- while DC's own Eastern Motors gets the YouTube love, I've never found the ghastly Nancy Kwan Pearl Cream ad from my childhood, which combines copy that could replace Said as the textbook explanation of "Orientalism" with a name that 12-year-old me was right, goddamn it, about sounding hilariously sexual.
40: Yeah, there was a thorough image reshuffling at that time. (I once lived on Granville just west of Broadway.)
41: I remember that Peal Cream commercial and you are right! I would only add the frieze on Breasted Hall (the Oriental Institute at the U. of C.) to your curriculum. It has men in pith helmets receiving the wisdom of the east from nekkid guys.
Psh, that wasn't hard to find.
34: Have you found nude pictures of me yet? Because, if not, I gotta give credit to the strangers I sent 'em to during my slutty phase.
I love that they add "Letters for reenactments on file."
PUHH QUEEM! On YouTube since July 2007!!
I can't decide whether "Puhh Queem" looks more like the name of some sub-Cthulhuloid cult's idol, the name of some Orientalist villan, or a Victorian swear.
Google Image gives this for "Bitch PhD nude". Who is to say it isn't her?
- The origin of this presumably apocryphal Lincoln Thanksgiving address
- The "Detective Conan O'Brien and Detective Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich" sketch.
Otherwise, the Internet never fails.
Is finding fulltext of academic papers really a problem for anyone who often wants the fulltext of academic papers?
ignoring older publications that haven't been scanned, I mean.
Who is to say it isn't her?
Well, the room looks suspiciously clean, for one.
Video of the following:
Ads for Dirt Cheap liquor in St. Louis
the "Carpet Lady" ads from the same market
the Kyle Farnsworth/Paul Wilson fight, which should be here but I can't open the files. They look to be in a real player format but that's not working for me.
i mean i occasionally email myself a list of cites and walk into teh local University library pretending to be a student, but its not really on the up and up. and, the library trek sort of defeats the purpose of the internet, don't you think?
I'm assuming that the photographer prepped the room?
"I don't think that these KFC boxes really contribute to the artistic effect, so it it's OK with you I'll put them out of sight over here, on top of your heap of dirty laundry".
Why are so many people looking for local TV ads on the internet?
Humorously poor production values.
Humorously poor production values.
Hard to find on the internet, indeed.
56: That makes sense, but I guess I'm more wondering who it is who regularly chases down cites but doesn't have access by affiliation to schools or corps. that will give it to them.
Even without access to official sources, I find a lot of stuff is also posted at/near researchers pages, perhaps in draft form
I'm more wondering who it is who regularly chases down cites but doesn't have access by affiliation to schools or corps. that will give it to them.
Interested amateurs. There are more of us than you might think.
I often am irritated by my lack of ability to get full-text papers when not on a school network.
62/63: Ok, fair enough. The last couple of places I've been, I can bounce through the school network to just grab stuff from home or a cafe or whatever.
But really, a lot of it is there anyway at least in the disciplines I'm used to. Reasearch group pages, researchers home pages, citeseer, google, lots of papers pot up. I'll admit it's handy to have electronic access, but on the other hand some of teh aggreagators and journal sites suck to navigate, too.
57: All my nekked photos were self-taken, and when you can see the bedside table you can tell it's covered in a fire hazard heap of old newspapers, magazines, and books.
Meet sexy singles on SlovenlyFriendFinder.com!
Yeah, now that I don't have an affiliation it sucks. Mostly I can get affiliated friends to download stuff and email it to me, though.
66: Yeah, men who seem interested in the book pile as well as the nakedness usually proved to be worth talking to.
I was really happy to realize the other day that I can still access JSTOR through the Teo U. library website.
I frequently end up looking for things behind the paywall. I am very reluctant to pay $25.00 for a 25-page paper, and I don't have a university connections. (Books I can get).
I looted browsed through JSTOR a bit right before I lost my university affiliation.
B protests too much. She looks good, though.
Would GoogleImage lie? What a weird thing to imagine.
That said, quite a few public library systems have JSTOR access, I hear, and some allow people with library cards to access the databases remotely. The moving wall is still a problem, and there are some journals whose current and recent issues are carried electronically by only a few academic libraries. I had better access to history journals online through my university's proxy server than I had when I was in the library of congress using their computers.
I want everything from wherever I am, dammit.
The Minute Maid orange-juice ad where Robert Loggia burst into a kitchen and the two kids who are enjoying breakfast exclaim "Robert Loggia!". Then Loggia gruffly endorses the orange juice. I only saw it once. It was the damndest thing.
I only saw it once. It was the damndest thing.
You can't rule out the possbility that it was a dream.
But then again, it was not a dream, since I found it in one second on Google.
I guess whoever I am with the amazing Google skills will have to be anonymous.
I don't have a university connections
See, what one does is, one emails someone on Unfogged who does have such a connection.
I didn't know that was how "Loggia" was pronounced. An educational evening in many ways.
Robert Loggia was totally flirting with that kid.
Theoretically, interlibrary loan can give public libraries - even small ones - access to larger libraries' resources. I've never tried this, and I suspect the turnaround time is pretty long - if the stuff ever arrives at all. Probably not worth it if you want just one article from one journal.
U.Va.'s ILL classifies alumni as "Community Scholars" and is very unhelpful with borrowing from other libraries. Bastards.
88: My public university has a similar policy, although its alumni card is really good for people using the on campus resources. I was thinking of public non-university libraries and their interlibrary loan services.
That should be "the public university I attended", not "my public university".
lol eb doesn't even own a public university.
Not providing easy internet access to academic papers is what lead to the downfall of western civilisation, which instead gorged itself on youtube videos of "funny" commercials.
Oswald Spengler was right.
French elastic rhymes. Found lots of examples of people saying "oh wow, I used to play that! Wish I could remember the rhymes!"
A couple years ago I searched for lyrics to a song I had heard at my summer camp in the 80s (a parody of the beastie boys. But then last spring I found it on youtube, so the internet wins.
I said in a thread a week or two ago that there are some things that you just can't search. A guy in my office has a ringtone that's some classic heavy metal song, but I can't find out what it's called by typing "bah bah bahbah bah bum" into google. Basically, all searches rely on being able to describe something in words- someone above mentioned art or photos, same thing.
re: 95
There are music searches. There's a service I've seen trailed on the radio and in newspapers where you can ring a number, play a clip down the phone, and it tells you the tune.
Incidentally "bah bah bahbah bah bum" sounds like 'Iron Man' by Black Sabbath.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MII3ns2KTBc
[pretty damn classic clip of that tune, too.
Ozzy when he was young and smooth-faced.
Riff starts at about 1min in.]
Lyrics to Polvo - Stinger (five wigs) and Harlem River Drive - Seeds of Life.
45: ?
14: The exact original referent of the phrase "Eastern Promise"
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, the phrase originates with the 1950s advertising slogan for Fry's Turkish Delight.
I don't fucking believe it. You should offer that as a service.
Polvo
I knew all those guys when I was in college, and the bass player and I were in the children's choir together at church. When we were children, of course.
re: 100
It's sort of an in-joke with some musician friends of mine. We communicate a lot online and if one of us can't remember the tune the other will ask them to 'hum' it [in ascii]. It's surprising how often you can guess the tune that way.
Through my public library I can get any book I want by ILL, but my only attempt to get an article has taken 2 months and counting. Even at the U Minnesota library JSTOR still asks me for money.
Is finding fulltext of academic papers really a problem for anyone who often wants the fulltext of academic papers?
Yes. Regularly. Extremely frustrating for practitioners who want to read/respond to/cite a paper in a grant proposal, report, or op-ed. I often end up contacting the author and throwing myself on his/her mercy.
90: In my state, public libraries are permitted to request ILL items from academic libraries, but academic libraries respond at their discretion. Which means -- if they feel like it, if they have time, if they trust the public library patron not to steal it, etc. It can be useful, but it's not reliable.
With regard to the question in the original post: Local newspapers. Maddening beyond belief the way vital information is locked away from community members. Companies like this one not only don't make online archives available (free or pay!), but they have cut back on microfilm. So if you don't keep the actual paper copy, you can't trace the public statements of a local politician, or the bid history of public contracts, or anything else that is too small to make the big-city paper.
(Also, since when does an orange juice ad require presidential anonymity?)
You can walk into the MIT library and use their computers to download any article they have access to, and their hard-copy stacks are open as well. The main libraries at Harvard are restricted access, but you can walk into some of the smaller libraries and the computers there have the same network access to everything.
If you're not local, I've heard of people at those institutions who will send you any electronic article you request for $5 or $10 (much lower than what the ~$35 the journals usually want) which is totally illegal but a useful service.
Too easy. I'll look up Verklärte Nacht.
I figured that one out by humming it, which is easy because there's no rhythm. However, you can easily find that one by google.
99: When did that campaign start exactly? Because I haven't found anything definite, but I did find a NYT article from 1950 that seemed to be using the phrase as an idiom.
Re: 96, 102, there's a description of the Verizon service here. Of course, it's only helpful if there's a recording of the song actually on, so good for if you are in a bar or listening to the radio and like "Man, this song is great! What is it?" I think this is because it is based on records of recordings, not, you know, the actual compositional elements of the song.
I think, anyway. I still haven't experimented with having it capture, say, someone doing a cover of a song, and see what comes up.
I've seen the program in action and it is pretty goddamed freaky. Also goofy at the point where it has a crazy graphic and flashes "ANALYZING MUSICAL DNA."
JohnEmerson -- ask the folks here and someone will email you the pdf when you need JSTOR or ProjectMUSE or whatever.
Wellcome trust has begun requiring that all papers supported by new grants be available in public access full-text. The equivalent NIH proposal is part of the recently vetoed (enormous) HHS bill. These won't be the articles copyrighted by the publishers, but will be fulltext of the manuscript with a link to the copyrighted article.
Google books is a wonder.
The AOL search history flap was interesting. An arbitrary user's google clickstream will never be available for free. If only medical and credit histories were as carefully guarded.
99: [On Eastern Promise] -- thanks. It seemed like it must be older, but with documentation I'll accept that as answered. (Or, I didn't know the campaign was that old.)
My wife went to college with Mimi Rhee, and poor Mimi never lived those commercials down....
In another thread here people were trying to out do each other with their geek cred and who had the lowest Slashdot ID and whatnot. I wanted to point out that I had a low ID until the great ID reset of whenever it was -- and you wippersnappers don't even know it happened!
I could not find any corroborating information for this though so I remained quiet so as not to make you'all think I was off my meds. So does anybody else remember when this happened?
re: 116
I was involved with setting up one of the first UK ISPs. Before the web was even invented. Slashdot, indeed.
wait, someone claimed slashdot was oldschool geek? That's wrong on too many levels.
I was just looking for that promo ABC ran years ago when they showed Titanic on Thanksgiving. Pilgrims and Indians swaying side to side together singing 'near, far, wherever you are . . .' Couldn't find it. This internet is useless.
No, my LispM is old school geek.
There were some people commenting on who had the lowest Slashdot ID and and so on and I just wanted to point out that some of us even had IDs prior to the current batch that were lost to the mists of time. Anyhow, I am happy my old ID is gone as it was tied to my given name. Then again I took a while to get the transition from the-cool-kids-get-to-use-their-names era to the pseuds-are-teh-awsome era.
Slashdot ID? What's the point. When I wanted something done I just e-mailed CmdrTaco.
The first e-mail account I ever had was on the world's very first commercial ISP. When I first considered registering a domain, it was anathema to even mention the idea of charging for them. I tried (unsuccesfully) to get my office to adopt the internet before Moosaic was a gleam in Andreesen's eye.
For all that I'm not really very old-school. My first computer was a IIgs, my first modem 1200 baud, and I never really got my head around Tymnet or Blue Boxes before the fun was pretty much gone out of them.
What did the old-school huffers huff?
122: nitrous is a classic, man. Nitrous has been nitrous since oxygen was oxygen. Huff history!
104
(Also, since when does an orange juice ad require presidential anonymity?)
I think what happened is that whoever-it-was posted under that name by accident, like his Web browser filled it in with the auto-complete function and he was too quick to hit "post." And then he didn't correct it, because that would give away that whoever-it-is posts presidentially as Martin van Buren.
I thought of a good one. The origin of the "mecha-lecha-hai, mecha-heini-heini-ho" or similar onomatopoeia that appears sometimes in Jewish kitsch things as well as near the beginning of "Pretty Fly For a Rabbi". I know it didn't originate with Weird Al.
