Luminary Uprise
Luminary Uprise is a place to find things that cannot be found elsewhere. Many people hold an ardent belief that absolutely anything can now be found on the web. Nonetheless, many times I have gone searching for things, like, say, the piano sheet music for Vannessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles or the lyrics to some incredibly obscure song, or the exact length of the longest word in the English language, and come up short. Occasionally, some time later, I will come up with it or find what I'm after offline. This space, which I currently call Luminary Uprise, is for things that I wanted and eventually found, so that others may find it more easily. I hope it's of some use.
Drink With the Beloved - lyrics to a traditional Sufi song. These didn't exist at all online, and I had to transcribe them myself from a video of it.
Hoof and Horn - the lyrics to this song do exist on line, but they're scattered about and I have a recording of it. ;)
Once There Was a Time... - the lyrics to this song do not exist online as far as I could see, so consider yourself lucky. :)
The Longest Word in English - Took me ages to find the full 189,000 letter long chemical name for the informally named Titin. And then when I finally did in a few obscure places, they'd miss out part of it, or put it all on one line(!!). So now you can view it, in full but in a viewable format, here at Luminary Uprise! Yay!
Human Rights Act - just a few easy to remember notes on the Human Rights Act.
Drug Classification: Making a Hash of it? - the fifth report of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, which famously criticised the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of our drug classification system. Hard to find.
The BNP 2005 Manifesto - the general election manifesto of the British National Party, which seems to have mysteriously vanished from their website.
(The lack of Vanessa Carlton sheet music is because I did find a copy online and then lost it again. Sorry.)