Tue Jul 20 2010 07:25 "Clever Title: City Name + Time Frame" = nonfiction delight | Ask MetaFilter:
for Leonard
Tue Mar 23 2010 15:48 Connected Histories project plan:
"All code and technical developments generated by the project will be available as an Open Source, and governed by a Creative Commons Licence." Also, source control referred to in one place as CVS and in another as Subversion
Thu Mar 18 2010 16:25 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/12/the_history_of_the_honey_trap:
poor Mata Hari! (her last name had always made me think she was Indian)
Mon Jul 20 2009 13:08 Academic Earth - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877:
I've heard great things about these lectures
Wed Apr 08 2009 16:38 EST Hark, a vagrant archive:
Yay! Kate Beaton has archives by category!!!!
Mon Apr 06 2009 11:43 EST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898:
my blood runs cold
Fri Apr 03 2009 11:53 EST http://beatonna.livejournal.com/82660.html:
Rami from Project Runway, witness Kate Beaton's draperie
Fri Apr 03 2009 10:49 EST Ancient Geeks' Dies:
gotta tell Hal and Adi about this
Tue Mar 24 2009 09:03 EST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident:
As the SF Chron article asks: how creepy do you want it?
Thu Jan 01 2009 15:41 EST Palonis, Estelle V. English (ca 8-45) [13 l.] [re language problems]:
"Particularly in the Social Sciences, it was difficult to counteract the obvious fact that we had not abided by the rules of the game in our treatment of the Nisei."
Wed Dec 24 2008 13:13 EST BBC - WW2 People's War - A Woman Doctor (Part One):
a five-part recollection of a British woman who worked in military medicine in WWII - hilarious
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:19 EST http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Tryst_with_Destiny:
worth considering: what is the Indian idea, akin to the American idea?
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:18 EST http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Keep_Moving_From_This_Mountain:
MLK, Kerala, and untouchables
Sun Sep 21 2008 17:00 EST History of NYC's internet community by Fred Wilson. - Boing Boing :
To watch
Wed Jun 18 2008 08:59 EST Loving Day: Celebrate the Legalization of Interracial Couples:
Need to check out for more AWWW stories
Mon May 12 2008 22:16 EST [UCLA-LUG] open source jobs at collab.net:
This was how I got my first job.
Fri Apr 11 2008 21:08 EST research!rsc: Computing History at Bell Labs:
Useful for research for "The Man From A.R.P.A."
Mon Mar 17 2008 09:03 EST
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2, by W. Grant Hague, M. D.
:
Need some creepiness? Here you go!
Wed Mar 12 2008 16:23 EST Hidden Palace - News:
Like Golden Palace, except awesome instead of incredibly aggravating.
Mon Jan 28 2008 10:54 EST The Papers of Benjamin Franklin:
Weird possibly bogus license
Sat Jan 26 2008 08:52 EST As We May Think:
At last, a legit copy online
Thu Dec 20 2007 22:43 EST Galileo and Einstein: Lecture Index:
"How practical are Babylonian weights and measures?"
Sat Nov 10 2007 06:58 EST YouTube - Square One TV: 8% Of My Love:
creepy or wholesome in its sanguine "Here's how much I'll commit to you" calculation; a modern band should cover this
Sat Nov 10 2007 06:56 EST YouTube - Mathman Glitch Decimals greater than 1:
YouTube comments on the Square One TV vids are already impassioned, but the ones for this clip show incredible anger
Wed Oct 31 2007 09:40 EST YouTube - The Web That Wasn't:
for Leonard: Alex Wright on the heritage of the web
Tue Oct 09 2007 19:18 EST The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sceptical Chymist, by Robert Boyle:
Chemistry? Pull the other one!
Tue Oct 09 2007 14:23 EST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev:
Background for "The Man From ARPA"
Mon Aug 20 2007 23:30 EST The History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective:
Just one of many videos from the Computer Museum
Mon Aug 06 2007 21:11 PST Table of Contents: The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3:
"It's time for a National Computer Club"
Mon Aug 06 2007 19:14 PST Internet Archive: Details: Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Pt 1:
It's Reading Rainbow! (It's also an early SNL skit.)
Mon Aug 06 2007 08:14 PST The Dot Eaters - Classic Video Game History:
They defied the law of dots!
Thu Jul 12 2007 21:17 PST O'Reilly Radar > Release 1.0:
I've struck DATA GOLD!
Thu Jul 12 2007 08:37 PST Living With a Computer:
"IBM will wage a counteroffensive with a DOS of its own."
Thu Jul 05 2007 14:13 PST NARA | The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription:
Let's teach the US Declaration of Independence in English/Lit class, not just History. The brilliance of "let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
Tue May 01 2007 04:33 PST History News Network: Top Young Historians:
Is Jason Sokol the son of Jonathan Sokol?
Mon Apr 30 2007 08:24 PST Medieval Legends:
Awesome old stories
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:52 PST Xooglers: Here's your desk. Now start doing marketing stuff.:
"I suffered from what Sergey would often describe as a "big company attitude" that led me to expect rules and process and clearly defined areas of responsibility."
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:52 PST Chistory :
"The late 1960s were a turbulent era for computer systems research at Bell Telephone Laboratories."
Sat Feb 24 2007 07:20 PST Crooked Timber » » Trees, flowers, mountains, stones:
Fascinating surname history from around the world; includes insulting names purposely chosen to inconvenience tax collectors
Mon Jan 01 2007 14:06 PST Hut 8, Naval Intelligence, Alan Turing's Hut on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:
Can't you see I'm BUSY IN THE HUT
Mon Jan 01 2007 10:27 PST:
Another old address: 10966 Roebling Ave #10A, 90024
Mon Jan 01 2007 09:56 PST:
2000 address: 415 gayley #12, 90034
Fri Dec 08 2006 20:10 PST Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1650:
The notion of identifying "bad guys" seems pretty arbitrary, but a tour de force nonetheless
Mon Oct 23 2006 20:15 PST Listology: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die":
"Here is the list you requested". I count 69 of these read, 22 owned but not read, 8 on wishlist
Mon Oct 23 2006 12:45 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_Revolt:
Pro-democracy activists: be careful about chanting "Constitution" if your autocratic ruler's name is easy to mistake for "Constitution"
Sun Oct 22 2006 18:42 PST Ask reddit: I plan to travel back to the 1400s. Any advice on how to recreate the Internet? :-) (reddit.com) :
Ted Stevens jokes and temporal mechanics
Sun Oct 22 2006 18:22 PST WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT BOOKS IN 1498:
Menocchio, the Lyndon LaRouche/Camille Paglia/David Icke of 1500s Italy, and William Caxton, who scratched his own itch
Sat Oct 21 2006 08:59 PST Cool Tool: Diagramatic Chart of World History:
a prettier and Frenchier alternative to the histomap?
Sat Oct 21 2006 08:50 PST Cool Tool: Histomap of World History:
to replace the Time/Life Hammond Ultimate Civilization chart between the pirate flag and the "I'D RATHER BE SMASHING IMPERIALISM" bumper sticker
Mon Oct 02 2006 12:45 PST Classic Texts in Computer Science:
Collect them all
Sun Jul 30 2006 06:00 PST The Other World: Table of Contents:
Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person, and he wrote a book about travel to the moon.
Mon Jul 24 2006 19:06 PST The rain miracle:
Not related to my current obsession
Mon Jul 17 2006 20:45 PST Outlaws of the Marsh: A Somewhat Less Than Critical Commentary :
From Andrew Leonard's weblog. There must be a free translation online; who can find it?
Sat Jul 15 2006 09:53 PST History of role-playing:
A gopher gem found while doing book work
Fri Jul 14 2006 19:18 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO:
Not related, but interesting
Fri Jul 14 2006 18:59 PST Oldenburg Archie Gateway:
October 1993, huh
Fri Jul 14 2006 18:47 PST Index of /History:
There's more where that came from
Fri Jul 14 2006 18:40 PST The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized:
I'd never seen this before yesterday -- name-checks Colossal Cave. "[Copyright enforcement and data security] are of secondary importance at CERN, where information exchange is still more important than secrecy."
Mon Jun 26 2006 11:55 PST http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/start.html:
Good analysis, with interviews
Thu Jun 23 2005 14:46 PST The Food Timeline:
Still great
Sun Mar 27 2005 23:12 PST China History Forum, online chinese history forum (Powered by Invision Power Board):
"Imperial rules and guidelines"
Mon Feb 07 2005 17:28 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_subcultures_in_the_20th_century:
pick your poison
Fri Feb 04 2005 12:52 PST Pepys' Diary: Monday 3 February 1661/62:
they sure lived it up
Wed Jan 05 2005 17:16 PST A Critical History of Electronic Games - FrontPage:
good show, old chap
Thu Nov 18 2004 13:07 PST Map History / History of Cartography - Homepage:
history *of* maps! bliss!
Mon Oct 18 2004 13:47 PST Archived: Helping Your Child Learn History: Introduction:
"Imagine waking up one morning to find out that you have no memory! Yes, you have become an interactive fiction protagonist!"
Fri Oct 15 2004 12:01 PST History of Games:
inc list of references to backgammon-like games in literature
Tue Sep 21 2004 13:02 PST http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/0/1/3/10136/10136-8.txt:
RPG rulebook for Victorian england
Thu Aug 19 2004 16:02 NST8NDT Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners:
Excellent! Now I just need Byzantium!
Tue Aug 10 2004 16:17 NST8NDT http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/1/4/13144/13144-8.txt:
"Medieval People"
Sun Jul 18 2004 19:44 NST8NDT The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase:
He's so modest!
Sun Jul 18 2004 19:41 NST8NDT The History Carper -- Primary Source Documents, Histories, and Stories:
primary sources galore
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