It’s Pierre Trudeau versus Doug Henning in the fourth of five alternate Canadian histories.
The supernatural is political: ectoplasm, suffragists, and creepy retro bondage gear.
The network isn’t virtual. It’s physical, and that matters.
Old, Weird Canada: The secret origins of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and my Mom.
Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.
(Yoinked.) Posting will continue to be slow this summer, for reasons described below. And also below that. Do not despair: I am, like everyone else, on the Twitter.
Tags: Blogging · Daddyhood · Early Internets
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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1 probate advice // Sep 11, 2009 at 4:20 am
Thats a great picture. Oh how the world has changed in such a short amount of time.