Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt

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

Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008

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

Years Ago

I have a confession to make.  I actually subscribe to very few of the amateur history blogs I mention here on Found History.  10 Years Ago looks like an exception.  According to it&

Briefly Noted for January 1, 2008

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

"Gone Too Soon"

More from the grocery check-out.  I suppose I understand the pairing of John-John and Diana.  But John Lennon and John Ritter?

Briefly Noted for December 21, 2007

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