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Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.
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Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
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Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
North Country Blues
Or, why did Dylan go south?Crouching Data, Hidden Patterns
Flowing Data ranks the year’s Best Data Visualizations; two of five come from my visualization crush Amanda Cox.Pants Extinguished
Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.Vague Memories of America
American Memory archives + members of Skinny Puppy + multimedia + post-industrial music = some damn cool I don’t know what. (Douglas Rushkoff explains a bit.)Robo-Theorizing
Bill Benzon on Astro Boy and the robot as subaltern. Hat tip to The Constructivist–but which of his blogs to link to?The Better Dinosaurs of Our Nature
An “alternate history theme park” in which dinosaurs fight in the Civil War. Where was this in 1996?Slow Blog Manifesto
Slow and low, that is the tempo. Hat tip to Dan Cohen.Perky Canada Has, Um...
Remember that old Onion headline: “Perky Canada Has Own Government, Laws”? Apparently, for the next eight weeks, we don’t!Channel Ocho
Or, television without context. Warning: may be creepy. Will be weird. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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1 Chris // Jul 21, 2008 at 11:44 am
I remember some Superman trivia book I had back in the late 70s telling me he was a Republican, which at that age was enough for me to want to join that party (reinforced by a meeting with Teddy Kennedy a few years later in which TK was a total dick).
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