It’s no giant mechanical elephant (what is?), but, yes, the telectroscope is wicked boss keen. Once again, I live in the wrong London.
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What is history for?
- History At Play
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.
- Go Western, Young Man
In which our hero lands a job, and bids adieu to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
- Eternal September
The class of 2010, Generation Gibb, ode for Caleb, the perils of Storrow Drive.
- The Annotated Gipper
When blogging, I allow myself the vice of not explaining every reference. Until now.
- Math and Unicorns
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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
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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
- Route 96
Ten thousand miles of American cheese. - Randomosity
Digital scholarship, data visualization, and the history of drink. - The Emily Chesley Reading Circle
Studying and celebrating the Speculative Songstress of Southwestern Ontario. - Chapati Mystery
Decolonize your head: Sepoy & his fellow mutineers blog about South Asia's past, Pakistan's future, and everything else worth knowing. - Bldg Blog
"You know I always wanted to pretend I was an architect." Terrific blog about buildings and what goes into them.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Josh Greenberg // Jun 2, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I’ll try to drop by and check it out (it’s only 15 mins from my apt)…
2 Mr. O. W. Lowe, ESQ. // Jun 2, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Artichoke Productions is nothing short of amazing!
As for Royal de Luxe, the massive puppetmakers with whom they became so affiliated with because of the Sultan’s Elephant: they have a Jules Verne island park in Nantes called Les Machines de L’ile!
www.lesmachines-nantes.fr
How’s that for Weird History, Mad Science, and Occasional Robots?
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