This beauty, found in a random dump of Internet Archive books: a set of practice texts for (I think) reading shorthand, this one from 1851. Like alien language mixed with steampunk curly lettering.
Burned Bike Rental Form
Found: File System List
Glossary from “Old Mortality”
The “glossary” section from Sir Walter Scott’s book “Old Mortality, Volume 2”, what appears to be the oldest book in the Project Gutenberg collection of the Internet Archive. Not sure what it is supposed to be a glossary of, but a weird collection to be sure:
A’, all.
A’body, everybody.
Aboon, abune, above.
Ae, one.
Aff, off.
Afore, before.
Again, against, until.
Ahint, behind.
Ain, own.
Ajee, awry.
Amaist, almost.
Amna, am not.
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Auto-Insurance
Vehicle insurance (also known as car insurance, motor insurance or auto insurance) is insurance for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other road vehicles. Its primary use is to provide financial protection against physical damage or bodily injury resulting from traffic collisions and against liability that could also arise from incidents in a vehicle. Vehicle insurance may additionally offer financial protection against theft of the vehicle, and against damage to the vehicle sustained from events other than traffic collisions, such as keying, weather or natural disasters, and damage sustained by colliding with stationary objects. The specific terms of vehicle insurance vary with legal regulations in each region.
A Motor Trade Insurance policy is also referred to as Road Risk Insurance. It is taken out by someone who runs a business involving anything to do with cars, motorbikes and vans such as buying and selling cars, repairing and servicing, valeting, running a garage or MOT centre etc. It is excellent for running a business. You can compare trade in policies whenever you’d like to.
In many jurisdictions it is compulsory to have vehicle insurance before using or keeping a motor vehicle on public roads. Most jurisdictions relate insurance to both the car and the driver; however, the degree of each varies greatly.
Several jurisdictions have experimented with a “pay-as-you-drive” insurance plan which utilizes either a tracking device in the vehicle or vehicle diagnostics. This would address issues of uninsured motorists by providing additional options and also charge based on the miles (kilometers) driven, which could theoretically increase the efficiency of the insurance, through streamlined collection.
3d Beer Pour
3d model of a beer being poured into a mug (via Shutterstock)
Blend Selected in Illustrator
Pine Ring
Via Candlelight Solutions (which sounds like a creepy, Big Brother-funded research organization)
Weird Recovered File
A weird file, found in the ‘Recovered’ folder in the trash after a crash – possibly from Keynote?
Some Kind of Adobe Error
Found in, printed via some odd process and left in the printer:
ERROR: ioerror (COMMAND TYPE: operatortype)
OFFENDING COMMAND: readstring "readstring"
OPERAND STACK: (4 total entries)
===top of stack===
{
-filestream-
-mark-
-savelevel-
DICTIONARY STACK: (11 total entries)
===top of stack===
<unknown>
Adobe_AGM_Image
SharedFontDirectory
Adobe_CoolType_LVMFonts
Adobe_CoolType_GVMFonts
Adobe_CoolType_Core
Adobe_AGM_Core
Adobe_AGM_Utils
userdict
globaldict
systemict
EXECUTION STACK: (17 total entries)
===top of stack (top 10 entries shown)===
{ pop }
---@exec---
{
{ --cleartomark-- --restore-- }
{ --currentdict-- /_Filters --known-- { _Filters AGMING_flushfilters } --if-- --end-- }
-filestream-
{ --disableinterrupt-- }
--@aborted--
{ --clearinterrupt-- --disableinterrupt-- { } --exch-- 0 --exch-- --put-- --clear-- }
--@aborted--
NEXT 320 CHARACTERS AFTER ERROR:
-- No More Data Available --