A hydraulic analog computer built in 1949 (from scrounged Lancaster bomber parts) that represents the British economy using gauges, sluices, colored water, and felt tip pens. (Thanks, Jere!)
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Every time you blog about blogging, a puppy dies.
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Part three of the Braunstein trilogy: was old school D&D for squares or hippies, hawks or doves?
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Alert Greil Marcus! Bob Dylan bristles at the “old weird America” label.
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Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
From The Vault: Alternate Canadas
What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.Happy Dominion Day
Fun with Canadian History (not an oxymoron!) from Sir Mark A. Rayner and HRH Kate Beaton.Here Is Where
“In search of America’s great, forgotten history.” (In the NYT.)Happiness is Mandatory
GeeksCitizens, rejoice: I made up three alternate Alpha Complexes (uno dos tres) for a buddy’s gaming blog.Hacking as a Way of Knowing
…was a ton of fun, but man, making stuff in the real world is hard! We didn’t make a killer robot after all; we made a flower that only blooms in artificial light.Department Enrollment Committee, FYI
Survey: History undergraduates at Oxford more sexually active than any other undergraduate major.Rules for Time Travelers
“#0. There are no paradoxes.” “#10. Your old universe is still there.”International Brotherhood of Mothers
Nate DiMeo tells the tragic story of Anna Jarvis, mother of Mothers’ Day, at his terrific old weird history podcast, The Memory Palace. (While there, scroll down: Ben! Franklin! Death! Ray!)Twitpocalypse
#pocylpse Cows are acting weird. Goats too.Paleoblogging
“Paleobloggers dig up material from our analog past to see what makes it tick.” Snarkmarket gives me a new category name, and reminds me that I always meant to do more of this than I do. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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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." - The Skwib
Where to start? Mark Rayner's non-stop sputtering of satire, comedy, and odd, odd fiction. All hail General Kang! - The Gatehouse
Steampunk, dieselpunk, and retro-futurism. - Old Weird America
Blogging Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, one post per song. Downloadable bonus tracks too! - Easily Distracted
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Brett // May 30, 2008 at 8:46 pm
According to the wiki page, one of the Financephalographs is on display at my own university. I’ll have to try and find it!
2 Airminded · MONIAC and the warfare state // Jun 4, 2008 at 6:04 am
[…] Old is the New New, MONIAC, the MOnetary National Income Automatic Computer: an analogue hydraulic computer designed […]
3 The Financephalograph // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:43 pm
[…] war bonds at work: Brett Holman at Airminded follows up my link to MONIAC with more history, smart analysis, and lots of […]
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