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Entries from January 2010
Holden's History of the United States
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Asides
The Black Pyramids of Georgia
January 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments
BLDGBLOG on messianic architecture, by way of Tama-Re, the Egyptian city built by an Afro-supremacist UFO cult in rural Georgia.
Tags: Asides · Old Weird America
She Blinded Me With History
January 25th, 2010 · 17 Comments
As history is awesome, it deserves an awesome shirt.
Tags: Favorites · History@Play · Science!
Sticky Meme
January 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments
The always worthwhile Zunguzungu is on a Teddy Roosevelt kick of late. Here he goes looking for the origins of Teddy’s big stick.
Tags: Asides
Everything Was Open-Source, Once
January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
This blog post at Attic #42 hits several of my sweet spots: telephone history, KGB surveillance, a plea for open-source technology, and a gripe about PDFs.
Tags: Asides · Russia is Neat · Technology · Telephony
Secede, Suppress, Survive
January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off
Not especially funny as Onion articles go, but it actually could be a TV show: New Alternate Reality Series on Island Where South Won Civil War.
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · TV
The Other KKK
January 9th, 2010 · Comments Off
Mystic anti-war boy scouts? Fascist futurist theosophists? What was up with the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift?
Tags: Asides
The Secret Origin of Canada
January 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Métis grooviness, hard working brackets, and my beef with John Ralston Saul’s “A Fair Country.”
Tags: Books · Canadian Content · Favorites · What I'm Reading
