Old Is The New New

Flowing Data ranks the year’s Best Data Visualizations; two of five come from my visualization crush Amanda Cox.

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Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.

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American Memory archives + members of Skinny Puppy + multimedia + post-industrial music = some damn cool I don’t know what. (Douglas Rushkoff explains a bit.)

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Bill Benzon on Astro Boy and the robot as subaltern. Hat tip to The Constructivist–but which of his blogs to link to?

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An “alternate history theme park” in which dinosaurs fight in the Civil War. Where was this in 1996?

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Don’t get me started.

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Every country on earth is transformed into a D&D campaign just by translating all the place names.

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Slow and low, that is the tempo. Hat tip to Dan Cohen.

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Remember that old Onion headline: “Perky Canada Has Own Government, Laws”? Apparently, for the next eight weeks, we don’t!

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