John Bolton, John Stewart, Doris Kearns Goodwin
I was cleaning out my TiVo last night, and I caught this odd trio debating the makeup of Lincoln's cabinet. The phone is an especially nice touch.
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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.
Best and Worst
It has been a while since I posted something in the Tops of All Time series, but I noticed two recent articles in PC World that fit the bill. The first is a
Red, Green, and Blue
I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's superb Mars Trilogy, an imagined history of humankind's colonization of Mars. The first in the series, Red Mars, was published in
History on the Corner
To commemorate 30 years of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service has started painting its blue corner mailboxes to look like R2-D2, the lovable droid who first appeared in 1977.
I was
Podcasts
If you haven't subscribed already, Episode 2 of Digital Campus ("The Old and the YouTube") is now available for your listening pleasure. Dan, Mills, and I chat about YouTube,