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The Good Old
A few of my favorites:
- History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age
Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.
- News and Jews
The case for open source Judaism and the true nature of God. Also, South Park references.
- The Great Wave
Why the day after the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was the first day of the modern world.
- Gernsblack
Go, Daddy, go! The syncopated world of swingtech, from the Ellington Locomotor to the unstoppable Lindy Drive.
- The Good Flood
The watery disasters, natural and human-made, of 1927 and 2005.
- History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age
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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
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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
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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
- The Celestial Monochord
Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues. - Imaginary Vestibule
Movies, roleplaying, and the indispensable Heroes punch-in-the-face index. - Curious Expeditions
Traveling and exhuming the extraordinary past. - Confessions of an Aca-Fan
Henry Jenkins, MIT's great and obscenely prolific scholar of media convergence, fandom, and the new geek order. - Citizen of Somewhere Else
Pillar of the Constructivist's multi-blog empire: Hawthorne studies, life in Japan, Daddyhood, and women's golf.
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