Old Is The New New

I’m enjoying Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, and already thinking about which chunks I will cannibalize for my history of science and technology class next semester. Good Ideas brings together themes that Johnson has been developing for years: the networked nature of innovation, the ingenuity of cities, the power of thinking across disciplines and scales. It’s [...]

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Vikings vs. Samurai!

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Build your own alternate universe.

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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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John Scalzi calls them “The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials,” but they read like alternate TV history to me.

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“I, Robot meets the Risorgimento,” says my man Mike G. From a humongous thread of alternate geography at alternatehistory.com.

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Was Cthulhu a railroad? The wires–or tentacles–connecting the Ghostbusters, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Frank Norris, BLDGBLOG, AT&T, and me.

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An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.

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What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.

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Sweet! Important events in history that never occurred today. (Link fixed!) See, frex, today’s tale of President Gerald L.K. Smith.

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