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Briefly Noted for March 27, 2008

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

The D&D crowd at MIT pays tribute to the late Gary Gygax with a large 20-sided die in Killian Court.
Cartridge Save, a British ink and toner retailer posts a surprisingly in-depth history of print on its corporate blog. Yet again we find that history is good for sales.

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Tags: Art · Briefly Noted · Gaming · History of Technology · Hobbies · Marketing · Memory

Briefly Noted for March 11, 2008

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

How to make a Leyden jar out of a two-liter Coke bottle, from MAKE Magazine.
Top Ten Moments in Sitcom History. I think you’d have to put Lucy and Ethel’s stint at the conveyor belt at the top of the table, but a good list nevertheless. (Thanks, Jerm.)
Prolific “junior ranger” Chance Finegan on the history of […]

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Tags: Briefly Noted · History of Technology · Hobbies · Humor · Local History · Management · Television · Tops of All Time

History and the Long Tail

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

In an interview on the most recent Digital Campus, PublicDomainReprints.org founder Yakov Shafranovich notes that one of the most popular uses of his print-on-demand service for public domain Google and Open Content Alliance books is to supply out-of-print manuals to latter day blacksmiths, pigeon breeders, and others still working in ancient, but declining, trades. Last […]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Google · Hobbies · Memory · Tools

Briefly Noted for February 22, 2008

February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree’s recollections of a lifetime with personal technology.
Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads.
Technica. An archive of lego history, including early advertisements, a numbered set listing, and an extensive timeline.

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Tags: Artifacts · Biography · Briefly Noted · Genealogy · History of Technology · Hobbies · Memory · Timelines · Video

“Boomers” and History

January 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments

I can’t tell you how tired I am of reading about baby boomers and their impending retirements. The self-indulgence of aging newspaper, magazine, and television news editors in running story after story about just how interesting and important their generation has been is very nearly unbearable. Newsweek is case in point. Its […]

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Tags: Collecting · Hobbies · Sports