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.

F/X

A quick one tonight from Popular Mechanics: The Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History.  In fact it's not a countdown of scenes at all, but rather a list of

Hot for Teacher

Because I completely fell off the wagon towards the end of the year, I'm going to extend the Tops of All Time series for another month.  All told, I didn'

Hot Wheels

Today's item in the Tops of All Time series shows just how widespread this brand of history really is.  Why a rental car outlet at the Shannon, Ireland airport would post

To Die For

New Zealand's MSN gives us the Weirdest Deaths in History.  Among the winners: fatal hilarity and swallowing a toothpick.  I'm not sure about the choices, but the accompanying anecdotes

Finding History at Home

A couple months ago, my friend Rob sent me a link to a great piece in the Washington Post that I somehow forgot to post.  "A Homer's Odyssey" reports