An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.
How Anne of Green Gables Destroyed The World
September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · Canadian Content
“You will be stabbed with ten swords! Then given seven coins! Then you will become a juggler! Then you will die!”
Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.
Philo T. Farnsworth and the invention of television.
The class of 2010, Generation Gibb, ode for Caleb, the perils of Storrow Drive.
Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · Canadian Content
Speaking of Civilization
An interesting interview with Sid Meier. We may think Civ is about history, but it is really about psychology: a diabolical Skinner box of operant conditioning.
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?
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2 responses so far ↓
1 JoVE // Sep 15, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Excellent. He had me at the Summit Series. I did once try to explain to a UK colleague how for a certain generation of Canadians the Cold War was all about hockey.
2 Rob // Sep 15, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Absolutely!
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