Officials Unveil Designs for Proposed 250-Foot Arch, Sparking Debate
Officials revealed designs for a 250-foot arch to mark the US 250th anniversary. The project faces opposition over its scale and impact on historic views.
#IndependenceArch, #WashingtonDC, #US250, #Architecture, #Preservation
https://newsletter.tf/250-foot-arch-us-250th-anniversary-dc/
The proposed Independence Arch at 250 feet is taller than the Lincoln Memorial (99 feet) and the Arc de Triomphe (164 feet).
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https://newsletter.tf/250-foot-arch-us-250th-anniversary-dc/
Visitors Can Now Watch the Restoring of a Masterpiece Bellini in Venice (Check out the Video)
"Why don't you just apply for a grant?"
NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. Up to $15K. The word "institutions" is literally in the program name. It's for libraries, archives, museums, historical societies. Not the person running the largest filmstrip preservation operation in the country. #preservation #NEH #grants #archives #digipres
Now that I’ve got the Chronicle program on GitHub ready for testing, I’m kind of at a loss as to how to get exposure for it.
The thing that makes me nervous above all is that even if I found a place where I could sort of put it out there, if people found out it was vibe coded, they might just tell me to fuck off.
It's one of those really divisive things and I kind of see it from both sides but it's a complication that I don't want to have to deal with.
I basically just want as many people to test and tell me what they think of it.
Donations would be an absolute fucking bonus!
I'm just kind of at a bit of a loss.
This is the link to it for what it's worth.
https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle
#Accessibility #chronicle #Development #AI #Blind #History #preservation #newspapers
Wonderful. An important kind of news item --- the kind for which the Fediverse is designed to serve as disseminator. Thank you for sharing it.
🇫🇷 Encore une très belle journée et une belle rando, pas longue, un peu moins de 10 kilomètres mais de fantastiques panoramas! Les jardins d'Anevoie, une prouesse de "low-technology" hydraulique sont impressionnant. Cette ingénierie hydraulique servait à la base au fonctionnement des forges, car oui, comme dans beaucoup d'autres endroits de Wallonie, il y avait des forges bien avant l'industrialisation du XIXe siècle. Le site est classé au patrimoine exceptionnel de Wallonie et a failli disparaître il y a une vingtaine d'années. Le site abrite aussi des moutons soay, une espèce rustique et là, il y avait beaucoup d'agneaux. Malheureusement, il y en avait qui était rejeté et je me garderai d'anthropomorphisme même si la situation m'a attristé. Cependant, visiblement, ce petit agneau était faible, pouvait difficilement tenir sur ses pattes, je crains qu'il ne soit viable et la nature n'est ni bonne, ni mauvaise mais c'est une loi, seuls les forts survivent. Néanmoins, je suppose que les fermiers qui s'occupe du troupeau vont faire leur possible pour lui permettre de vivre. Une des photos les plus improbables a été de capturer presque par hasard un cygne en plein atterrissage. Voici, quatre photos de la journée pour un début et pour vous souhaiter une bonne soirée! 👋 🙂
➡️ https://www.annevoie.be/fr/
🇬🇧 Once again a very good day and hike. Not a very long (approx. 10 km) but fantastic views! The gardens of Annevoie, a major heritage site in Wallonia, are based on water and hydraulics, a low-tech used before for the furnaces and the forges that were built there before the gardens. Such furnaces and forges were very common in Wallonia before the industrialisation of the 19th century. The gardens were threatened of vanishing twenty years ago. The gardens also have a group of Soay sheep, an old sort of sheep and there were a lot of lambs. Unfortunately there was one lamb was obviously rejected as he was to weak, he could bare stands. It was sad to see how the sheep rejected him but nature is nor good, nor bad, when a young too weak is, the chance to survive is low... Maybe the farmers can save him anyway. One of the most improbable photo was a landing swan I photographed quite unexpected. Here are four first photos for tonight. Have a nice evening! 🙂 👋
➡️ https://www.annevoie.be/en/
#bloomscrolling #fleuritonfil #oiseaux #photographie #birds #patrimoine #preservation #jardins #gardens
We Need to Talk About the National Park Service
We need to talk about the National Park Service. What it does. What it costs. And what gets lost when an administration decides public goods are soft targets.https://adventureadjacent.com/2026/04/07/we-need-to-talk-about-the-national-park-service/
And just like that, someone generously uploaded complete and brand new Greaseweazle flux streams of the Sim City Graphics diskettes to the Internet Archive. Up until today, these streams had been missing from my personal collection. I'm so grateful to the retro community for sharing all of these precious data!
These disks are part of Digitoxin's "Maxis" collection: https://archive.org/details/20230521
#SimCity #KryoFlux #Greaseweazle #Diskette #FloppyDisk #Preservation #Retro #Tech #80s #90s #RetroGaming
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