WTF
Mark Fortner, an open source web developer who blogs at IdeaFactory, has stumbled upon a potentially useful new analytical construct for historians. In a post entitled "WTF Moments in Java History"
History of Technology
Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008
New Stella Artois website uses brewer's long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially "L'Origine."
Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards
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 own creation for Getting Things Done, the Hipster PDA.
A History of Snowboarding
Happy Birthday "Blog"
Yesterday was supposedly the tenth anniversary of the coining of the word "blog." These kinds of anniversaries (of terms, practices, social phenomena) make for very easy newspaper copy and very bad
Star Wars, the baroque version
Star Wars, the baroque version. Like steampunk, but older.
(Via Old is the New New.)