A few of my favorites:
Grab your turbo-pistols, snap on your big bubble space helmet, and rocket to adventure in the Astounding year of 1963!
The 23rd edition of the History Carnival, heavy on the freaks.
Why don’t North Americans play cricket? And what does this have to do with rebuilding Iraq?
“You will be stabbed with ten swords! Then given seven coins! Then you will become a juggler! Then you will die!”
Teaching the anti-survey, not that “Oz,” why Ken Kesey is like Increase Mather.
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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:
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.
Tags: Asides · Technology · Early Internets
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
6 responses so far ↓
1 chris // Apr 2, 2008 at 8:28 am
I read that at first as “Phil Collins” and had a moment of epic cognitive dissonance.
2 Rob // Apr 2, 2008 at 8:38 am
Now that would be awesome.
3 Mr. O. W. Lowe, ESQ. // Apr 2, 2008 at 9:55 pm
So strangely fitting that so overreaching a system literally collapsed under its own weight.
…Which is also kinda true for Phil Collins’ career, come to think of it!
4 Sean // Apr 3, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This reminds me of visiting the Red Cross museum in Geneva, where they show part of the massive system used to track prisoners of war during WW2. Kind of spooky to walk among these towers of filing cabinets, although they didn’t collapse on anyone….
5 Rob // Apr 3, 2008 at 8:55 pm
And this is why Ken Hite is the king.
6 Gakutensoku // Apr 4, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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