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The Good Old

A few of my favorites:
- King Crank
  Technology and democracy in the golden age of the American eccentric.
- On A Planetary Scale
  Synopsis of my new course on science, technology, and global history.
- It’s the Weather, Stupid
  What’s the matter with Canada?
- Earthquake Weather
  “The production of civil society is a work of love, indeed the work that many of us desire most.”
- The Good Flood
  The watery disasters, natural and human-made, of 1927 and 2005.
The New Old

Most recent posts:
- I Have Until January 20!
  Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
- American For A Day
  Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.
- Pandemonium on the Potomac
  Six man mixed tag-team elimination match.
- One More Sleep
  A night of broken dreams and fractured hips.
- Burger Time Event Horizon
  The unknowability of Ms Pac-Man; Major Wesely and Vietnam; the classic arcade “kill screen” and What Lies Beyond.
The Old Old

In loose Borgesian categories:

Entries Tagged as 'Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?'

I Have Until January 20!

November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.

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Tags: Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?

American For A Day

November 5th, 2008 · 35 Comments

Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.

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Tags: Favorites · Canadian Content · Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?

Happiness is Mandatory

July 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia? Don’t they know if we outlaw emo, only outlaws will be emo?

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Tags: Asides · Russia is Neat · Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?

Seek!
The New New

Interwob links to confound and bemuse:

The New Beautiful and Enjoyable Game of Apes
Is only one of five centuries of board games at the always beautiful and enjoyable BibliOdyssey.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
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.

Stock Market Skirt
A party dress with a hemline that automatically rises and drops along with the stock market. My man Bill discusses.

The Henry Ford of Literature
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the huckster visionary whose mail-order superhighway paved the way for civil rights, feminism, the sexual revolution and the information age. Also, he may have been murdered by the FBI.

Great God, Where Is The Ship?
I don’t talk much politics here, but The Phil Nugent Experience is one political blog I can usually read without curling up into a ball crying. Also: “Drill, Baby, Drill”? Really?

Sex Magic Rocket Science
A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.

Wikipedia Is Failing
Wikipedia (who else?) on the ways Wikipedia is failing. (But see also: Wikipedia is not failing; Wikipedia may or may not be failing; Wikipedia on problems solved by MacGyver.)

Pants On Fire
Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething with ~~jealousy~~ awed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.

FDR's Men of Action!
Chef Julia Child, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., White Sox catcher Moe Berg, and the proverbial many more served in an “international spy ring” for the OSS during WWII.

Old Weird Google Map
Celestial Monochord goo-maps the Anthology of American Folk Music. What part of that sentence isn’t awesome? (See also.)
Some Of Our Corky Chums
- Cliopatria
  Pulsing heart of the history blogiverse.
- Nobody Scores!
  Loopy, loveable, misanthropic webcomic. I can't decide which character to crush on.
- Patahistory
  A hot and infinitely dense blog. Home of the life-changing Patahistory Manifesto.
- Old Roads
  You said it, Martyn: The past is "a library of human choices, reminding us that the world is larger than we are being led to think."
- Route 96
  Ten thousand miles of American cheese.
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Entries Tagged as 'Have We Learned Nothing From Flashdance?'

I Have Until January 20!

November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

American For A Day

November 5th, 2008 · 35 Comments

Happiness is Mandatory

July 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Seek!

The New New

Some Of Our Corky Chums

Behind the Curtain