A few of my favorites:
What’s the matter with Canada?
Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.
O for the days when the worst thing Americans had to fear was the demise of league bowling.
Letters from the front: more on my grandfather, killed in action during WWII.
Martin Melosi on “machine space”: Why vast swaths of our cities are inhospitable to human life.
Most recent posts:
Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.
Don’t get me started.
Every country on earth is transformed into a D&D campaign just by translating all the place names.
Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.
In loose Borgesian categories:
Two good friends of mine have just launched Social Ch@nge, a blog about using the net for nonprofits, with some constructive criticism of Joe the Plumber’s official (!) website.
Tags: Canadian Content · Asides
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.
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1 Foxtown // Nov 9, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Ooooh, I want to “Shop Joe”!
He’s so dreamy!
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