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13
Jan

Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008

New Stella Artois website uses brewer's long history, period costumes to sell beer.  See especially "L'
12
Jan

Years Ago

I have a confession to make.  I actually subscribe to very few of the amateur history blogs I mention here
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01
Jan

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
22
Dec

"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
21
Dec

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.
20
Dec

Briefly Noted for December 20, 2007

Stan Katz on collaboration in the humanities and CHNM's Zotero. Inaugural issue of Code4Lib Journal, chronicling "the
19
Dec

Schill, Scorpions, and Louis Gossett Jr.

We all know the Mitchell Report has been digging into ball players' pasts. So, it seems, has Boston Magazine.
18
Dec

Happy Birthday "Blog"

Yesterday was supposedly the tenth anniversary of the coining of the word "blog."  These kinds of anniversaries (of
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13
Dec

Ridiculous, Ludicrous

It has been a while since I posted in the Tops of All Time category.  That isn't because
12
Dec

U.S. History T-Shirt

Cheat sheet t-shirt from Snorg Tees. (Thanks, Jerm.)