Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

Connecticut
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
11
Dec

What Not to Wear

A couple weeks ago I recklessly hypothesized that European sports fans are more likely than their North American counterparts to
11
Dec

More History of Gaming

Friday it was t-shirts.  Today it's playing cards: So says Cybereye, the Austrian firm that wants to help
08
Dec

Wii-cked Awesome

As we say back in Mass., this one is "wicked pissah"—Nintendo history on a t-shirt.
30
Nov

Formula Un

I said in the introductory post to this series that it's difficult for a blog like this one
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29
Nov

High Rollers

InsideEdge, a British sports betting website, has published a list of the "top 25 most outrageous gambles of all
28
Nov

Gooooooooal!

Video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe are full of homemade sports highlight films.  Many of these are
21
Nov

Top of the Pops

I can't tell who's in charge of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, but he
20
Nov

Dumb Dumb

When I first came across 2Spare.com's Top 10 Dumbest Personal Names Ever, I assumed it wouldn'
20
Nov

Old friend

Variety has called it: VHS is dead at 30.
19
Nov

Silly Geeky

Another quick one for the weekend: Game Set Watch—an "alt.video game weblog"—gives us the Top