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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Fun, smart post about green skyscrapers, sci-fi cities, urban futurism, and Jane Jacobs in Judge Dredd’s MegaCity-One. (HT)

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As soon as I said, “But nobody can name the inventor of television,” the class shouted in unison: “Philo!”

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Ignore what I said yesterday about the Hobbesian waltz of the A-list and the long tail. Network! Tweet! Work the room!

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Off to Bill Turkel and Edward Jones-Imhotep’s “Hacking as a Way of Knowing” Workshop, May 1-3 2009.

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#pocylpse Cows are acting weird. Goats too.

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More from the Victorian internet department: Paul Collins on chess, bowling, even billiards by telegraph.

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Canadian wise men discover the secret of pottery: deconstructing the Civilization tech tree.

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Centrifugal steam guns and other strange weapons of the Civil War.

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Because I get all my history of technology from Vanity Fair. (No, actually, it’s not half bad.)

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