Get out your bristol board and rubber cement: it’s time for the school science fair.
A few of my favorites:
Ben Franklin returns, with a time-traveling chess-playing robot and a cast of dozens, in my mostest award-winningest post.
What is history for?
All hail King Ludd.
Painkillers, hallucinations, and Hill Street Blues.
Ben Franklin stars in the most kick-ass 18th-century action movie you never saw.
Most recent posts:
Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
Spybots invade English village.
Beards, bots, and were they hot?
More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.
Japanese robots and the gaijin who keep stealing them. Plus blood sacrifice by index card to begin the information age.
In loose Borgesian categories:
Get out your bristol board and rubber cement: it’s time for the school science fair.
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
The Tank
Tom Englehardt posts Chalmers Johnson’s review of Alex Abella’s new history of RAND.
Note To Self: Ia Fhtagn
What appears to be H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book: creepy images, story ideas, and games he’d like to run. (Via Felix Gilman.)
High Tech Noon
Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?
Men In Tights
It’s been well linked (Barista assumed it was taking the piss but I think he underestimates Chabon’s geeky earnestness) but it’s worth it: Michael Chabon on the superhero unitard. PS How good is All-Star Superman, am I right?
The Cardboard Internet
Paul Collins on the Mundaneum, a networked encyclopedia on fifteen million index cards (shades of the Memex?). Plus index cards as (literally) the U.S. War Department’s killer app.
Google Maps of Sci-Fi
BLDG BLOG’s Geoff Manaugh on mapping the fictional onto the real.
More Dick
You heard it here first:* Moby Dick is awesome! (*No, you didn’t.)
Au Clair de la Lune
Feast your ears on the oldest known sound recording–from 17 years before Edison’s phonograph. (Via Corn Chips & Pie.)
The Pickle King of Islamistan
Khalid (née Bertram) Sheldrake, the “power hungry, toothbrush mustachioed, British ninny” who somehow failed to convert western China to Islam.
Elektro: The World's Fair Robot That Smoked
Excellent robot content from Dave Lester. Ah, but was it trained to smash your camera?
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