A few of my favorites:
Ghost cameras, necrophones, and the no man’s land between faith and reason.
O for the days when the worst thing Americans had to fear was the demise of league bowling.
Philo T. Farnsworth and the invention of television.
Abe Lincoln wallops Robot Hitler as Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison look on!
Both the phrase and the spooky world of semi-buried Americana it denotes are having their Elvis moment.
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:
Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
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I picked up a box, I lifted some rocks, while I stood on my head…
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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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