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This is the online home of Rob MacDougall, historian and robot fancier. -
The Good Old
A few of my favorites:
- Infomancy
More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.
- Bad History Carnival
Abe Lincoln wallops Robot Hitler as Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison look on!
- Let’s Get Physical
The network isn’t virtual. It’s physical, and that matters.
- R&D
The Cold War avante-garde, from R&D to D&D, the secret origins of hex paper, KAAAAHN!
- It’s Mostly About The Benjamins
Ben Franklin stars in the most kick-ass 18th-century action movie you never saw.
- Infomancy
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The New Old
Most recent posts:
- Burger Time Event Horizon
The unknowability of Ms Pac-Man; Major Wesely and Vietnam; the classic arcade “kill screen” and What Lies Beyond.
- Do You Feel Lucky, Steampunk?
The Kinematrix has you: three alternate Victorian internets.
- The Gilded Age Internet and the People’s Telephone
Plus the Jimmy Carterian Internet and the Millennial Pneumatic Tube.
- That Is All
Is John Hodgman the last observer of Gilded Age telephone etiquette? I WOULD NOT PUT IT PAST HIM.
- All That Camp
Write up and reflection on THATCamp 2008, an excellent “unconference” on digital technology and the humanities.
- Burger Time Event Horizon
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The Old Old
In loose Borgesian categories:
- Academia
- Alternate History
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- Ben Franklin
- Blogging
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- Carnivals
- Comics
- Concept Courses
- Cranks
- Daddyhood
- Digital History
- Early Internets
- Eye Candy
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- Found History
- Games and Gaming
- Geek Archaeology
- Gilded Age
- GTD
- Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?
- History@Play
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- Old Blog
- Old Weird America
- Real Life
- Robots
- Robots Prepare To Torch Gene Autry
- Russia is Neat
- Science!
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- Telephony
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- War and Peace
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The New New
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
The Henry Ford of Literature
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the huckster visionary whose mail-order superhighway paved the way for civil rights, feminism, the sexual revolution and the information age. Also, he may have been murdered by the FBI.Great God, Where Is The Ship?
I don’t talk much politics here, but The Phil Nugent Experience is one political blog I can usually read without curling up into a ball crying. Also: “Drill, Baby, Drill”? Really?Sex Magic Rocket Science
A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.Wikipedia Is Failing
Wikipedia (who else?) on the ways Wikipedia is failing. (But see also: Wikipedia is not failing; Wikipedia may or may not be failing; Wikipedia on problems solved by MacGyver.)Pants On Fire
Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething withjealousyawed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.FDR's Men of Action!
Chef Julia Child, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., White Sox catcher Moe Berg, and the proverbial many more served in an “international spy ring” for the OSS during WWII.Old Weird Google Map
Celestial Monochord goo-maps the Anthology of American Folk Music. What part of that sentence isn’t awesome? (See also.)Happiness is Mandatory
Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia? Don’t they know if we outlaw emo, only outlaws will be emo?Speak In A Raspy Growl and Carry a Batarang
Scott Kaufman reports (without, alas, documentation) that Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale based their Batman on Teddy Roosevelt.Mangler 2000
From the “We survived, didn’t we?” department: A paean to old, dangerous playground equipment. (But see Greg Downey’s astute response.) Some Of Our Corky Chums
- Chapati Mystery
Decolonize your head: Sepoy & his fellow mutineers blog about South Asia's past, Pakistan's future, and everything else worth knowing. - Petri Dish
Love this blog. Long link-happy lab notes on science, pop culture, and history. - Nobody Scores!
Loopy, loveable, misanthropic webcomic. I can't decide which character to crush on. - Bibliodyssey
"Eclectic book illustrations" doesn't begin to cover it: an endless parade of images haunting and strange. - Civil War Memory
Reflections of a high school history teacher and Civil War historian.
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