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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

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

WTF

January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Mark Fortner, an open source web developer who blogs at IdeaFactory, has stumbled upon a potentially useful new analytical construct for historians. In a post entitled “WTF Moments in Java History”, Fortner introduces the concept of the “WTF moment” in which contemporary observers and later analysts of historic events can only exclaim “WTF.” […]

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Tags: Blogs · History of Technology · Memory

“Gone Too Soon”

December 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Ambient History · Biography · Memory