Old is the New New

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
Geeks Citizens, 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.