Found History

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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New Stella Artois website uses brewer’s long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially “L’Origine.”
Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards were first proposed as science fiction.
The History of LOLCats from G4.

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I was refilling our salt shakers last night when I noticed this little tidbit on the side of the can.

It turns out my can is part of a series. In addition to the 1956 Umbrella Girl, Morton’s is printing throwbacks from 1914, 1921, 1933, and 1941. Collect them all at your local supermarket […]

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Last night Jeremy mentioned an article from Slate about GM’s use of images of Rosa Parks and other historic persons and events to sell Chevy trucks. Here’s another article from the New York Times. Commentary on the ad—which also features images of Joe Louis, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, […]

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Together with colleagues at CHNM, I have been working for several years now on ways to elaborate and extend the practice of online collecting, especially in the areas of history of science, technology, and industry. Some of the results of that work can be found at CHNM’s Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online website, […]

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