NYT on Gygax: “Gary Gygax died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.”
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March 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Geek Archaeology · Asides · Games and Gaming
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“A flannel curtain has descended across the continent.” The second of five alternate Canadian histories.
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How not to get and keep readers.
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For the Red Sox, and Bill Gienapp.
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It’s Pierre Trudeau versus Doug Henning in the fourth of five alternate Canadian histories.
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Playing in order to learn is teacher logic, where play is the means and learning is the end. The kids who will keep doing it after the bell rings are the ones who learn history in order to play.
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Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
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Spybots invade English village.
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Beards, bots, and were they hot?
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More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.
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Japanese robots and the gaijin who keep stealing them. Plus blood sacrifice by index card to begin the information age.
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Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
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.Elektro: The World's Fair Robot That Smoked
Excellent robot content from Dave Lester. Ah, but was it trained to smash your camera? Some Of Our Corky Chums
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Historian, professor, technophile, Mom. Lots of good blogging on the practice of teaching history. - 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." - History Enthusiast
A grad student in American history, blogging the long road to the PhD. - Barista
Just a really good blog by a really good writer, about no one thing in particular. I wish all blogs were Barista. - Easily Distracted
Timothy Burke's terrific history, pop culture, academia blog.
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1 Foxtown // Mar 9, 2008 at 3:08 pm
That is cool. Go Geeks!
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