Old Is The New New

I prepare for the AHA, and robots prepare to torch Gene Autry. Plus some Cormac McCarthy hilarity.

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Caleb Crain in The New Yorker: What will life be like if people stop reading?

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A kind of Digg for history websites: History Nexus. Brand new and as yet sparsely populated, but certainly worthwhile.

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Martyn at Old Roads: “There is always an ‘old, weird [insert nation here]‘ history waiting to be written.” Old, weird France. Ancient, mysterious Germany. Old, weird Uganda?

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Canada’s national newsmagazine (and why not?) has a clip and the backstory of something I’d convinced myself was a figment of my Pop Rocks-addled memory: the 1975 movie on which The Dukes of Hazzard was based.

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Chris Daly and The Atlantic contemplate what’s become a running joke in our household: the gulf between the “top” stories and the “most emailed.” Related: the most emailed stories of 2008.

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“A gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography.” What’s the story behind 48 photos of women on late-night TV taken by a lonely photographer in 1957? Or the crazy 1970s swinger party? There are worlds within worlds in these pictures.

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If your name is Aaron Sorkin, you are stealing my bit!

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Go, Daddy, go! The syncopated world of swingtech, from the Ellington Locomotor to the unstoppable Lindy Drive.

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You loved/tolerated Steampunk Star Wars: now it’s Baroque Star Wars! (Plus a side order of Calamity Jon robots.)

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