Old is the New New

More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.

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Japanese robots and the gaijin who keep stealing them. Plus blood sacrifice by index card to begin the information age.

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Harry Houdini carries on Ben Franklin’s battle versus killer robots.

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Closing the generation gap… with whisky, damnit.

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Go, Daddy, go! The syncopated world of swingtech, from the Ellington Locomotor to the unstoppable Lindy Drive.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost tapped John Murray Spear to build an electrical messiah and save the world. Who was using who?

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The posthumous adventures of Benjamin Franklin.

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How not to get and keep readers.

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How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.

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Playing in order to learn is teacher logic, where play is the means and learning is the end. The kids who will keep doing it after the bell rings are the ones who learn history in order to play.

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The Cold War avante-garde, from R&D to D&D, the secret origins of hex paper, KAAAAHN!

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In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.

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IM N UR COLONY GOIN 2 CR0T04N!!! The original old, weird America.

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All hail King Ludd.

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Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.

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