Found History

More from the grocery check-out. I suppose I understand the pairing of John-John and Diana. But John Lennon and John Ritter?

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NEH announces funding for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. A Visit to Yesterland – The Discontinued Disneyland. “Did you ever wonder what happened to Disneyland’s Mine Train, Flying Saucers, or Indian Village? These and other attractions, restaurants, and shops are now collected in Yesterland, a theme park on the Web.” The Museum [...]

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Stan Katz on collaboration in the humanities and CHNM’s Zotero. Inaugural issue of Code4Lib Journal, chronicling “the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” History Nexus … like Digg, but for history.

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We all know the Mitchell Report has been digging into ball players’ pasts. So, it seems, has Boston Magazine. In particular, they have found a few embarrassing skeletons in Curt Schilling’s closet. For sure, there’s nothing in the signed 1986 minor league program found by the magazine as offensive as performance enhancing drugs. But the [...]

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Yesterday was supposedly the tenth anniversary of the coining of the word “blog.” These kinds of anniversaries (of terms, practices, social phenomena) make for very easy newspaper copy and very bad history. It’s obviously impossible to date the first time a word was spoken. But to the extent that these bogus birthdays get history into [...]

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It has been a while since I posted in the Tops of All Time category. That isn’t because it’s any less popular. Here are a few (“bad”) examples: The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History The 10 Most Ludicrous Moments in The History of 24

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Cheat sheet t-shirt from Snorg Tees. (Thanks, Jerm.)

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Star Wars, the baroque version. Like steampunk, but older. (Via Old is the New New.)

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