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Spybots invade English village.
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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. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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Long loopy essays of early Enlightenment awesomeness. Pictures too! - Bibliodyssey
"Eclectic book illustrations" doesn't begin to cover it: an endless parade of images haunting and strange. - Uncovering Information Labor
Greg Downey's scholarly blog on information/communication technology, knowledge production, and the lived world of human labor. - Barista
Just a really good blog by a really good writer, about no one thing in particular. I wish all blogs were Barista. - Old Roads
You said it, Martyn: The past is "a library of human choices, reminding us that the world is larger than we are being led to think."
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Dave Lester // Mar 21, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Here’s an excerpt from the 1939 movie “The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair” featuring footage of Elektro.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T35A3g_GvSg
2 mgrasso // Mar 21, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“We got more gongs than the breakdancing robot that caught on fire.”
3 Foxtown // Mar 21, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Seems interesting, but I can’t read it. Maybe I will try when I get home…
4 Rob // Mar 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Mike: Great minds! I was trying to work that in but went for the (more? less?) obscure Jimmy Olsen camera reference instead.
5 Madrad // May 6, 2008 at 8:10 pm
See an account of my visit to Elektro at
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2007/02/robot-redux.html
6 Rob // May 6, 2008 at 9:05 pm
That’s a terrific post, David. I’ve forwarded it to a mailing list of robot enthusiasts. And Elektro starred in Sex Kittens Go To College with Tuesday Weld and Conway Twitty! ZOMG, as the kids say.
7 Madrad // May 7, 2008 at 3:11 am
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-things-elektro.html
8 Madrad // May 7, 2008 at 3:13 am
Oops. Hit “submit” too fast on that last post. Here’s another post on the blog that includes a picture of Elektro on display at the Mansfield Museum.
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-things-elektro.html
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