Ahoy-Hoy!

Dowsing for Old, Weird America. With occasional visits to New, Weird Canada.

Awaiting Yr. Perusal

About Me

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"Research" and "Teaching" now leave this site to link to my faculty page at UWO.

Contact Me

(My old "electro-mail" address no longer works. Please see the new site for up-to-date contact info.)

The Good Old

A few of my favorites.

• On Ben Franklin vs. Robots
  Part 1
  Part 2
• On Superman
  Secret Origins
  Superman Returns Superman III
• On Disasters
  The Great Wave
  The Good Flood
  Earthquake Weather
• On History
  ...The New Tribbles
  Math and Unicorns
  History Carnival 23
  History Carnival 40
• On Spiritualism
  Part 1
  Part 2
• On Baseball
  For Bill Gienapp
  The Curse Reversed
  Not Cricket
• On Remembrance Day
  Part 1
  Part 2
• On Getting Things Done
  OGTD
  NGTD
  Some Pig

The New Old

Recent Entries.

• The New Old is the New New?
• Aha
• Dr. Hodgman, I Presume
• ARFFF '06
• Wichita Mind Control
• The Old, Weird America
• Bon Appetit
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Superman III
• History Carnival XL

The Old Old

Archives.

• February 2007
• January 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006
• September 2006
• August 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006
• January 2006
• December 2005
• November 2005
• October 2005
• September 2005
• July 2005
• June 2005
• May 2005
• April 2005
• March 2005
• February 2005
• January 2005
• December 2004
• November 2004
• October 2004
• September 2004

Behind the Curtain

Invisible Elves that Make the Site Go.

The New New

Interweb Links to Confound and Bemuse.

• Athanasius Lives
  Online video of the inaugural meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society. Yowza!
• Steal This Cave Painting
  A brief history of culture jamming, from the Lascaux Caves through Abbie Hoffman to Google Bombing.
• Eastern Bloc Cowboy Robot
  Website for a new e-book, Pioneers of Soviet Computing by B.N. Malinovsky.
• U = E x V / I x D
  Procrastination expressed as a mathematical equation.
• Wonder Woman '08
  The ProgressiveHistorians bloggers out themselves as geeks, big time.
• The Shock of the Old
  It's almost like old is the new, er, something or other.
• Against The Day
  My man Rauchway on my man Pynchon.
• Zeitgeist
  Bruce Sterling's State of The World 2007.
• Wonderful World
  Anthony Lane on Neil Gabler on Walt Disney.
• Folly’s Antidote
  Arthur Schlesinger on the nation's best defense against foolishness. (Hint: H_ST_RY)
• Miss something? Actually care? Older links live on at del.icio.us/robotnik/linklog.

Read All Over

I've taken this out again. I keep going back and forth on whether I like having a book list here. There's a large part of me that wants "credit," in some ineffable form, for all the books I read, like this is some elementary school Read-a-thon and I'm going to win a trip to Canada's Wonderland at the end of the summer. But of course, I never keep up with updating the list, so it looks like I haven't read a new book in months. Jeez. What did nerds stress out about before the internet?

Blogrollerie

Stalwart Allies and Corky Chums.