Off to Bill Turkel and Edward Jones-Imhotep’s “Hacking as a Way of Knowing” Workshop, May 1-3 2009.
Entries from April 2009
I Will Do My Best To Teach Them About Life And What It's Worth
April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Digital History · History Appliances · Robots · Technology
Twitpocalypse
April 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
#pocylpse Cows are acting weird. Goats too.
Tags: Asides · Technology
Paleoblogging
April 26th, 2009 · Comments Off
“Paleobloggers dig up material from our analog past to see what makes it tick.” Snarkmarket gives me a new category name, and reminds me that I always meant to do more of this than I do.
Tags: Asides · Paleoblogging
The Victorian Xbox
April 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off
More from the Victorian internet department: Paul Collins on chess, bowling, even billiards by telegraph.
Tags: Asides · Early Internets · Games and Gaming · Technology
Old School, New Histories
April 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments
A renaissance in old school gaming has brought with it a welcome interest in the history of RPGs.
Tags: Games and Gaming · Geek History
Brains
April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
“Zombies are about what slavery does to you.”
Tags: Suburban Legends
Flaming Moe
April 17th, 2009 · Comments Off
The somewhat true story of Moe Berg: major league baseball player, top secret OSS agent, and would-be atomic assassin.
Tags: Comics · Old Weird America
Today In Alternate History
April 15th, 2009 · Comments Off
Sweet! Important events in history that never occurred today. (Link fixed!) See, frex, today’s tale of President Gerald L.K. Smith.
Tags: Alternate History · Asides
This Is My Blood You Drink
April 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
101 Pop Culture Last Suppers.
The Things, You Say
April 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Blog promoting the book Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. (Is it me or are subtitles getting longer?)