• The grammar of ornament : Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament
  NLS catalogue entry. "First published in 1856... All styles of ornamental decoration are covered: Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese. It also contains the Manifesto of Design that inspired design greats like William Morris."
  with art-and-design
• The great chain of being sure about things
  "The technology [sc. blockchains] behind bitcoin lets people who do not know or trust each other build a dependable ledger. This has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency."
  with computers-and-it
• The Hubris Hub
  "...a resource for managers, researchers and students on the subject of hubris and hubristic leadership. Its aim is to help people to understand the hubris hazard, appreciate the risks it presents and combat the dangers that it poses."
  with management-and-productivity
• The Illustration Archive
  "...over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection and were scanned by Microsoft."
  with image-galleries
• The impact of Copilot on records management : Some predictions
  "Any attempt to shift end-user behaviour to do more work outside of individual accounts or to move content out of individual accounts will face an uphill struggle because Copilot will reinforce rather than challenge the behaviour of working and storing content in individual accounts."
  with records-management
• The Kingpin of Fakers : Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome
  "…Ghadiali, who invented the Spectro-Chrome in 1920, claimed to be able to cure almost everything with its twelve colors […] 'Stop Insulin at once,' he advised diabetics, 'and irradiate yourself with Yellow Systemic alternated with Magenta [...] and eat plenty of Raw or Brown Sugar and all the Starches!!!.'"
  with miscellany
• The leadership delusion
  [The] 'leadership delusion' is located in a functional approach to leadership where the assumption is that removing dysfunctions from organisations through efficient and effective delivery will automatically bring about changes to standards."
  with management-and-productivity
• The Library Assessment Capability Maturity Model : A means of optimizing how libraries measure effectiveness
  "This paper presents a Library Assessment Capability Maturity Model (LACMM) that can assist library managers to improve assessment. The process of developing the LACMM is detailed to provide an evidence trail to foster confidence in its utility and value."
  with library-management
• The long, strange history of Teflon...
  with miscellany
• The lost history of the electric car, and what it tells us about the future of transport
  with electric-vehicles
• The Movies
  "This archive site presents Movies material from a limited range of sources."
  with music
• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
  "In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began."
  with miscellany
• The Petters story
  "The first Petter Car was originally intended to be electric-powered, but there were such difficulties with the batteries, that electricity was abandoned as a power source. [...] They produced the first motor car with an internal combustion engine to be made in the United Kingdom..."
  with cars electric-vehicles
• The reason Zoom calls drain your energy
  with management-and-productivity
• The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
  "The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707."
  with glam history
• The Reg online standards converter
  Convert 'miles per hour' to '% of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum'. Or 'acres' to 'microWales'. Or...
  with humour
• The revolutionary concept of standard sizes only dates to the 1920s
  Ernst Neufert and 'Architects Data'.
  with miscellany
• The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
  with humour language-and-literature
• The road sign as design classic
  "The Design Museum has added a motorway sign to its collection. So is British road signage a design classic?"
  with art-and-design
• The royal order of adjectives [and ablaut reduplication]
  "It’s funny how native speakers of English have that sense of what sounds right and what doesn’t. Even though we can’t always explain why, we often know when there’s something wrong with the way a piece of text is written."
  with language-and-literature

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