Old Is The New New

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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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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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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Mystic anti-war boy scouts? Fascist futurist theosophists? What was up with the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift?

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Snarkout‘s annual post is as keen as ever: an appreciation of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians becomes a link-happy history of literary invasions right back to Saki and Wells.

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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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Jeet Heer, comics historian, on the half life of a stereotype, from the “Irish simian” to Jiggs to Homer Simpson.

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Prof. Hacker’s Jason Jones and Ayelet Waldman’s Michael Chabon on faking it as a productivity tip.

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“Joe Kennedy Trains the President:” Another history comic from Kate Beaton–she just keeps hitting them out of the park.

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