Old Is The New New

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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P.D. Smith on the USSR’s (still operational?!?) doomsday device.

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Sergei Larenkov takes WWII-era photos of Russia, returns to where the photos were taken, matches up the shot and–oh, just click on the link. (Now, in English!)

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Our man Jess Nevins with some cool snippets from Frank Miller’s Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era.

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Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia? Don’t they know if we outlaw emo, only outlaws will be emo?

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Long-exposure photographs of St. Petersburg turn the bustle of urban crowds into beautiful shoggoths of human smoke.

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Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives, online free from the Hoover Institution (who are eager to get the word out, I guess, that the Soviet Union was bad).

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Just a cool little story about electrification from the early days of the USSR.

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But seriously, are these really any crazier than the West Edmonton Mall?

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