A few of my favorites:
Letters from the front: more on my grandfather, killed in action during WWII.
Lawrence Eagleburger, thanks for coming out.
The Golden Age “Getting Things Done.”
“You will be stabbed with ten swords! Then given seven coins! Then you will become a juggler! Then you will die!”
Has America lost its last great public historian? (Spoiler: No.)
Most recent posts:
Is John Hodgman the last observer of Gilded Age telephone etiquette? I WOULD NOT PUT IT PAST HIM.
Write up and reflection on THATCamp 2008, an excellent “unconference” on digital technology and the humanities.
I’m psyched for this weekend’s digital humanities conference but feel a bit the phony.
Just a cool little story about electrification from the early days of the USSR.
Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.
In loose Borgesian categories:
Canada’s national newsmagazine (and why not?) has a clip and the backstory of something I’d convinced myself was a figment of my Pop Rocks-addled memory: the 1975 movie on which The Dukes of Hazzard was based.
Tags: Asides
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.
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