Via The Skwib, though you should not take that acknowledgment as indication that I am grateful to Mark for learning about this site.
- front page
- about
- By email
- Subscribe by RSS
-
Ahoy-Hoy!
This is the online home of Rob MacDougall, historian and robot fancier. -
The Good Old
A few of my favorites:
- Wichita Mind Control
The Wichita, Kansas Public Library in 1952 was probably the last place on Earth you’d expect to get your mind blown.
- Geek Shakes Tiny Fist on Weblog. Dozens Bored. Film at Eleven.
Look into the future. Wave. The children of 2024 are looking back at us and holding us responsible.
- History Carnival XXIII
The 23rd edition of the History Carnival, heavy on the freaks.
- The Great Wave
Why the day after the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was the first day of the modern world.
- Clio’s Nightmares
With a library card, a good search engine, and the right kind of mind, one can wreak all kind of mischief on historical “facts.”
- Wichita Mind Control
-
The New Old
Most recent posts:
- That Is All
Is John Hodgman the last observer of Gilded Age telephone etiquette? I WOULD NOT PUT IT PAST HIM.
- All That Camp
Write up and reflection on THATCamp 2008, an excellent “unconference” on digital technology and the humanities.
- THATCamp
I’m psyched for this weekend’s digital humanities conference but feel a bit the phony.
- Light in Captivity
Just a cool little story about electrification from the early days of the USSR.
- On A Planetary Scale
Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.
- That Is All
-
The Old Old
In loose Borgesian categories:
- Academia
- Alternate History
- Asides
- Ben Franklin
- Blogging
- Books
- Canadian Content
- Carnivals
- Comics
- Concept Courses
- Cranks
- Daddyhood
- Digital History
- Early Internets
- Eye Candy
- Favorites
- Found History
- Games and Gaming
- Geek Archaeology
- Gilded Age
- GTD
- History@Play
- LiveJournal
- Old Blog
- Old Weird America
- Real Life
- Robots
- Robots Prepare To Torch Gene Autry
- Russia is Neat
- Science!
- Squirrels
- Teaching
- Technology
- Telephony
- Travel
- TV
- Visualization
- War and Peace
-
Seek!
-
The New New
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
Depends. Is Hayden Christensen In It?
“Would you rather go see the latest Star Wars movie, or a giant card catalog?” NYT on the Mundaneum, the cardboard internet noted here a few months ago.Lousy Cheapskates
Guess my so-called friends were outbid: that first telephone book sold for $170,500. I would have “settled” for the ENIGMA machine which went for $104,500.City of Shadows
Long-exposure photographs of St. Petersburg turn the bustle of urban crowds into beautiful shoggoths of human smoke.My Name Is Charles Guiteau
Garfield without words was inspired. Garfield without Garfield was, I thought, kinda gilding that lily. But Garfield plus Garfield is the winner.Shan Carter and Amanda Cox Have A Posse
Another swell interactive graphic from the people who did the box office one, this time showing demographic margins for Clinton and Obama.Good Luck Getting the DeLorean to 88 MPH
Tyler Cowen and his readers discuss survival tips in case you are unexpectedly stranded in the year 1000 AD. Would it surprise you to learn that I think about this all the time?Oral History of the Internets
Because I get all my history of technology from Vanity Fair. (No, actually, it’s not half bad.)Captured Monsters
“Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee…” A blog of stills from old monster movies.The Financephalograph
Your war bonds at work: Brett Holman at Airminded follows up my link to MONIAC with more history, smart analysis, and lots of pictures.The Telectroscope
It’s no giant mechanical elephant (what is?), but, yes, the telectroscope is wicked boss keen. Once again, I live in the wrong London. Some Of Our Corky Chums
- Voyages Extraordinaires
Scientific romance, retro-futurism, gothic horror, pulp fiction, imperialist adventure, &c. - Easily Distracted
Timothy Burke's terrific history, pop culture, academia blog. - Citizen of Somewhere Else
Pillar of the Constructivist's multi-blog empire: Hawthorne studies, life in Japan, Daddyhood, and women's golf. - The Celestial Monochord
Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues. - Ro-Blog
From the dawn of the 21st century: my very first weblog, 2001-2002.
- Voyages Extraordinaires
-
Behind the Curtain
Invisible elves make our site go:
- Login
- Subscribe by Email
- Subscribe by RSS
- Comments by RSS
- Powered by WordPress
- Styled (sort of) by Cutline
© 2001–2007 Rob MacDougall
1 response so far ↓
1 Mark A. Rayner // Jul 3, 2007 at 9:37 am
More of my own reviews of the albums coming soon!
Leave a Comment