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Briefly Noted for March 14, 2008

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally! From our talented Polish colleagues at Historia i Media comes Feeds, a much needed new resource that uses Google Reader to aggregate and filter RSS streams from digital historians around the world. “One Feed to rule them all, One Feed to find them, One Feed to bring them all and in the darkness bind [...]

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Tags: Blogs · Digital Humanities · Film · Sports · Tools · Video

Briefly Noted for January 1, 2008

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Ye Olde Hipster. Merlin Mann claims Thomas Jefferson’s ivory pocket notebook as the “great-great-grandfather” of his own creation for Getting Things Done, the Hipster PDA.
A History of Snowboarding in 2 Minutes Flat. (Via YouTube.)

Happy New Year!

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Tags: Artifacts · Briefly Noted · History of Technology · Sports · Video

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

Revisionist History

April 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Unfortunately for Bonds, it seems MLB’s historians now are saying Aaron hit 805. This according to The Onion.
Thanks for the tip, Jerm.

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Tags: Humor · Sports

“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