Blains, dyspepsia, and flatulence.
Professional wrestler launches into angry tirade! Film at eleven.
Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.
You half-Japanese girls, you do it to me every time.
Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.
Cool beans: Every country on earth is transformed into a Dungeons & Dragons campaign simply by translating all the place names.
Hat tip to (where else?) the endlessly excellent Strange Maps. Check for wandering monsters once per hex.
Tags: Eye Candy · Visualization
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.
© 2001–2009 Rob MacDougall
3 responses so far ↓
1 Adam // Dec 7, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Cracks me up that Newfoundland remains the same. Sure, so are Havana ‘n’ Kingston, but Newfoundland? It sounds so fantastically simplistic, or simplistically fantastic! More maps please.
2 Rob // Dec 7, 2008 at 3:09 pm
@Adam: Click through and you can see a bunch more maps from the Atlas – the rest of North and Central America and one of Europe as well.
Strange Maps warns that some of the translations/etymologies in the Atlas are a little shaky – and made more so by the fact the atlas was originally published in German, then translated to English. But that just makes it more like a D&D fantasy world…
3 Adam // Dec 8, 2008 at 9:50 am
To be clear, I _like_ the mistranslation/maletymologics. Taking a huge data set like place names around the world and uhhh renaming them, it’s bound to produce anomalies [strange consistencies?] like Newfoundland. Not quite a cartographic esperanto, but it’s in that direction, maybe more like a language twins teach each other. I can totally imagine a 13 year-old german-speaking DM, “So floh sie Atlantis und ankamen in einem neuen land gefunden.”
Clickety-click!
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