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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
History of Technology
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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12
Dec
Star Wars, the baroque version
Star Wars, the baroque version. Like steampunk, but older.
(Via Old is the New New.)
05
Jun
More Crunch
Here's another one from the "Crunch" network of blogs. Today TechCrunch has a post on Apple&
23
Apr
History in Screenshots
One of the things I keep stumbling upon are amateur software histories told through series of screenshots. Here are a
20
Apr
End of an Era
In 2012 the lights will go out in Toronto. Well, at least the incandescent lights. According to a new provincial
12
Apr
Yuri
Today Google marks the 46th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space launch with another one of its commemorative logos.
04
Apr
Best and Worst
It has been a while since I posted something in the Tops of All Time series, but I noticed two
13
Mar
Place Names / Time
Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed
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05
Mar
Oldest Domain Names
Jottings.com has posted a list of the 100 oldest still-registered .com domains. First on the list: Symbolics.com, which