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Briefly Noted for February 27, 2008

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

A Year Before is a WordPress plugin allowing users to display titles of articles posted n number of days ago. Its developers suggest using it in a “historical corner” to show “what happened in your blog e.g. 30 days, 6 months or a year before.”
Tenspotting. Chock full of “best ever” lists.
28 Weird Al Yankovic Parodies […]

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Tags: Ambient History · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Music · Tools · Tops of All Time

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

Schill, Scorpions, and Louis Gossett Jr.

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

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. […]

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Tags: Film · Music · Sports · Television

Ridiculous, Ludicrous

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Humor · Music · Television · Tops of All Time

Bowie’s in Space

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

One last music post before I return to Found History’s bread and butter.
If you haven’t been watching HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, you’re really missing something. Take my word, it’s the best comedy to hit TV since FOX inexplicably pulled Arrested Development from the air more than a year ago. It’s way too […]

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Tags: Humor · Music · Television · Video