This is CogDogBlogged: "A Peachy Trip Down the Web Rabbit Hole via a Random Public Domain Photo"
I will take the castigation for my ongoing use of Google Chrome as a web browser in 2026, mainly because of all the work flows and systems I have come to use over the years. One of these, maybe the most precious, is the one that distracts me from tasks.
That;s right, because when most people open a new browser tab or window, they get a blank screen or some buttons for browser tools or I don’t […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Where on Fifth Avenue in 1918? Another Public Domain Rabbit Holing Adventure "
I just can’t explain this habot/obsession. But I get curious about a public domain image that comes up randomly in my browser, and rather then W-O-R-K-I-N-G I am digging down the internet rabbit holes of curiosity.
Yet another one spawned by the Free to Use Browser Extension, aka my curiosity portal.
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/01/free-to-use/
Today’s random image came up just with a scene […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/12/where-on-fifth-avenue-in-1918/
From my regular joy of random public domain images in new browser tabs, look! AI is not just something Sam Dude popped out in 2023, there were early prototypes for the "content acquisition" approach in 1939
https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179220446
This is CogDogBlogged: "More Fixes for the Free to Use Browser Extension, Dispenser of Random PD Image"
I get a little grumpy when I open a new browser tab and am not greeted by a random public domain image from the Library of Congress. It’s like someone taking a knife to my IV drip of small joys.
This is enabled by a little gizmo I have taken under my tech wing, the Free to Use Browser Extension created in 2018 by a student intern at the Library of Congress. It has not been updated, but I […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/04/more-fixes-free-to-use-browser-extensio/
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This is CogDogBlogged: "Free to Use (and here it is to use) Browser Extension for Opening Up Public Domain Rabbit Holes of Curiosity"
A three line title! There you go. I’ve written a few times about a favorite web diversion/excursion, triggered by a 6+ year old browser tool that does something magical.
Think of how many times you open a new browser tab/window. What is there? White space? A few logos or thing the browser maker wants to toss you? It’s boring.
I found the Library of Congress Labs Free to Use Browser Extension […]
Once again, I got distracted by a random public domain image in my new browser tab. I knew that view, looking. into to the Inner Basin of San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff. I had to try matching up one of my own photos.
The original is an 1871 Timothy O'Sullivan photograph, part of the Wheeler survey
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