Looking for (Digital) History?
This one has been making the rounds, and rightly so. Bill Turkel has posted a very useful and much needed roundup of digital history blogs over at Digital History Hacks. It's
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.
Classic Toys of the 80s
The past month has seen the reintroduction of at least two classic toy lines of the 1980s. Having finally reached adulthood, having finally attained a certain level of financial and corporate clout, my
Tony likes "History"
The History Boys—Alan Bennett's play about the meaning, study, and teaching of history in an English grammar school in the 1980s—won six Tony Awards including Best Play, Best Director,
Historically Bad Advice
Stepping off a plane at BWI this weekend, I spotted an ad for Saul Ewing, the venerable Philadelphia law firm, across from the gate. Below a headline asking "Will you have the
History @ HP
Buried deep within the small business section of Hewlett-Packard's website, this short history of the @ sign has been making waves among techies. A quick search of Technorati yielded more 400 references