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The 23rd edition of the History Carnival, heavy on the freaks.
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In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.
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Playing in order to learn is teacher logic, where play is the means and learning is the end. The kids who will keep doing it after the bell rings are the ones who learn history in order to play.
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Ghost cameras, necrophones, and the no man’s land between faith and reason.
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Here’s a second concept course, though the idea is neither new nor mine, and maybe it’s not really a concept course if several people have done it. Still, I would really like to try this someday.
The Backwards Survey
Every single event is the offspring not of one, but of all other events prior or contemporaneous … […] - Concept Courses
Last fall, Bill Turkel had a great blog entry calling for “concept projects” in academic history: like concept car prototypes or catwalk fashions, these would be imaginative efforts that need not prove wholly workable or utilitarian, but that might serve to get ideas into circulation, push the boundaries of the form, or, a la Thoreau, […]
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Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
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Spybots invade English village.
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Beards, bots, and were they hot?
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The Search for Intelligence on the Internet: My man Mark Rayner plugs the numbers into the Drake equation, predicts that there should be 2.7 intelligent blogs in cyberspace. Keep watching the skies!The Tank
Tom Englehardt posts Chalmers Johnson’s review of Alex Abella’s new history of RAND.Note To Self: Ia Fhtagn
What appears to be H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book: creepy images, story ideas, and games he’d like to run. (Via Felix Gilman.)High Tech Noon
Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?Men In Tights
It’s been well linked (Barista assumed it was taking the piss but I think he underestimates Chabon’s geeky earnestness) but it’s worth it: Michael Chabon on the superhero unitard. PS How good is All-Star Superman, am I right?The Cardboard Internet
Paul Collins on the Mundaneum, a networked encyclopedia on fifteen million index cards (shades of the Memex?). Plus index cards as (literally) the U.S. War Department’s killer app.Google Maps of Sci-Fi
BLDG BLOG’s Geoff Manaugh on mapping the fictional onto the real.More Dick
You heard it here first:* Moby Dick is awesome! (*No, you didn’t.)Au Clair de la Lune
Feast your ears on the oldest known sound recording–from 17 years before Edison’s phonograph. (Via Corn Chips & Pie.)The Pickle King of Islamistan
Khalid (née Bertram) Sheldrake, the “power hungry, toothbrush mustachioed, British ninny” who somehow failed to convert western China to Islam. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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A grad student in American history, blogging the long road to the PhD. - Confessions of an Aca-Fan
Henry Jenkins, MIT's great and obscenely prolific scholar of media convergence, fandom, and the new geek order. - The Emily Chesley Reading Circle
Studying and celebrating the Speculative Songstress of Southwestern Ontario. - Civil War Memory
Reflections of a high school history teacher and Civil War historian. - History 444E
Course website for my senior U.S. History seminar.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Liveavatar // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Ooh, he has a book out now? I have one of his prints. Thank you for the info!
2 Foogie // Feb 26, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Yeah, that’s pretty well it, isn’t it?
Bookwise, your life’s quest is over.
Now you just need to find the t-shirt and the sausage that define you and you can consider your work complete.
Personally, I’m looking for the book about monkeys playing hockey. The movie was good but I felt it didn’t really flesh out the characters. I mean what was that monkey feeling?
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