Further to yesterday’s post:
Bonus historical content: Animated election results, 1840-2004. But no clicky until you’ve voted.
Martin Melosi on “machine space”: Why vast swaths of our cities are inhospitable to human life.
Cigars all round.
All hail King Ludd.
More history than one blog can handle.
The Great White North is grey! The third of five alternate Canadian histories.
Further to yesterday’s post:
Bonus historical content: Animated election results, 1840-2004. But no clicky until you’ve voted.
Tags: Eye Candy
The Unit Upgrade
Mark Rayner’s latest is a funny in-joke for recovering Civilization addicts like myself. Related: uh-oh.
Liberal Arts Education or Sleep Aid, You Decide
I generally mistrust blogs whose every post is a list of stuff from elsewhere, but this is a nice (big) collection of history lectures you can watch online.
Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti?
As my man Head 58 says, “I don’t want to live in a world where he didn’t.“
Holden's History of the United States
At Hilobrow, for J. D. Salinger & Howard Zinn.
The Black Pyramids of Georgia
BLDGBLOG on messianic architecture, by way of Tama-Re, the Egyptian city built by an Afro-supremacist UFO cult in rural Georgia.
Sticky Meme
The always worthwhile Zunguzungu is on a Teddy Roosevelt kick of late. Here he goes looking for the origins of Teddy’s big stick.
Everything Was Open-Source, Once
This blog post at Attic #42 hits several of my sweet spots: telephone history, KGB surveillance, a plea for open-source technology, and a gripe about PDFs.
Secede, Suppress, Survive
Not especially funny as Onion articles go, but it actually could be a TV show: New Alternate Reality Series on Island Where South Won Civil War.
The Other KKK
Mystic anti-war boy scouts? Fascist futurist theosophists? What was up with the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift?
The Red Peril
Snarkout’s annual post is as keen as ever: an appreciation of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians becomes a link-happy history of literary invasions right back to Saki and Wells.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Oleksa // Nov 4, 2008 at 9:48 pm
While this may be a bit off-base, is it sad that I view these election posters knowing full well that if those shows were actually booked by the wrestling promotions operating today, the business would experience a massive boom period…perhaps equal to Hulkamania?
Oh…and since knives are allowed, under New Jersey Rules, I feel bad for Biden…I think Palin’s been sharpening her’s for months.
2 Adam // Nov 5, 2008 at 6:51 am
Kudos to U of Richmond for the wicked awesome maps that move with time. Throw in some “Schoolhouse Rock” type jingles so as to increase the information retention quotient, and I’d buy that for a dollar.
3 mgrasso // Nov 6, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I like that Kucinich is a luchadore.
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