Technology & Culture reviews an exhibit of video game history at the Science Museum in London.
Game On
August 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Asides · Games and Gaming · Technology
A few of my favorites:
Teaching the anti-survey, not that “Oz,” why Ken Kesey is like Increase Mather.
The class of 2010, Generation Gibb, ode for Caleb, the perils of Storrow Drive.
Blains, dyspepsia, and flatulence.
The great American elevator inspector novel and other memorable reads.
The Golden Age “Getting Things Done.”
Most recent posts:
Kate Beaton is awesome.
Teaching history from back from front.
A course I’d like to teach on gaming, simulation, and history.
Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
Spybots invade English village.
In loose Borgesian categories:
Technology & Culture reviews an exhibit of video game history at the Science Museum in London.
Tags: Asides · Games and Gaming · Technology
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
The SITI Program
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.
Invisible elves make our site go:
© 2001–2007 Rob MacDougall

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