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Briefly Noted for December 21, 2007

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments

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 of Bad [...]

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Tags: Apple · Art · Briefly Noted · Collecting · Digital Humanities · Fakes · Music

More Crunch

June 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Here’s another one from the “Crunch” network of blogs. Today TechCrunch has a post on Apple’s 30th anniversary. While the post itself is not very interesting, many of the reader recollections solicited by the author and shared in the post’s comments section are. Currently there are nearly eighty. As our experience [...]

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Tags: Apple · Collecting · History of Technology · Memory

(h)iStory

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s official. The iPhone will make its debut on June 29, 2007. Will 6/29/07 go down in history as the day Apple revolutionized the cell phone industry? Maybe, maybe not. In either case it will have some competition for ownership of June 29th in the historical consciousness. CrunchGear has a [...]

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Virtual Apple

December 14th, 2006 · No Comments

For those of us who grew up with an Apple II computer in the home, Virtual Apple provides a timesucking trip down memory lane. Dedicated to “preserving a generation of Apple 2 disks,” Virtual Apple emulates old Apple 2 games in your web browser. Ironically, because they’re powered by Active X, the games [...]

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Tags: Apple · Gaming · History of Technology

Lunch Break

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Most days, Ask Dave Taylor is a great place to go for Mac tips and support. Today it’s a great place to go for a spirited (bad, I know) history of gin. It’s really no substitute for a three-martini lunch, but maybe it can suffice for those of us stuck at our desks [...]

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Tags: Apple · Food & Drink