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Entries from January 2010

Holden's History of the United States

January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

At Hilobrow, for J. D. Salinger & Howard Zinn.

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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.

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Tags: Asides · Old Weird America

She Blinded Me With History

January 25th, 2010 · 17 Comments

As history is awesome, it deserves an awesome shirt.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.”

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Tags: Books · Canadian Content · Favorites · What I'm Reading