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.

Dumb Dumb

When I first came across 2Spare.com's Top 10 Dumbest Personal Names Ever, I assumed it wouldn't qualify as found history.  There are, after all, lots of Top 10

Old friend

Variety has called it: VHS is dead at 30.

Silly Geeky

Another quick one for the weekend: Game Set Watch—an "alt.video game weblog"—gives us the Top 10 Silliest Computer Mag Covers in History.  Note that this isn't

More Movie Mosts

I don't want to fall down on my first day on the job, but I'm also finding it hard to tear myself away from today's big games.

Best, Worst, Most, Least

I have never intended Found History as a place for serious or systematic research into popular historymaking, so it's hard to talk about "findings," "results" or "