Miscellany from Past and PresentMiscellany from Past and PresentA historian's tumblelog. Various film clips, images and links. Just for fun, but mostly related to the past. 
Articles
War Torn: Five Years
2008-03-16 14:30:00 War Torn: Five Years : Excellent bit of stocktaking on the past five years by John F. Burns of the New York Times. Darned good reading.
Don't Feed the Trolls
2008-03-14 13:14:00 Don't Feed the Trolls : Cartoon and commentary by Ender, who is always worth reading.
Playing with Tumblr themes
2008-03-14 12:40:00 I?m playing around a little with Tumblr ?s premade themes this morning. If this tumblelog looks really odd or even unreadable, just stop by a little later. One thing I?ve noticed, is that themes will look very different depending on the kinds of posts one does. So I actually select and save a theme to see how it looks live. More About: Themes
The internet is the ultimate labour-creating device
2008-03-14 05:21:00 The internet is the ultimate labour-creating device: ?Every day on the train I?ve been watching an optimistic businessman bury his nose in Timothy Ferriss?s forthcoming Four Hour Workweek, the latest manual for productivity junkies. Despite all these manuals, though, most of us remain stuck behind a desk. I always thought that technology was supposed to liberate us from the tireless nature of work. Instead we?re becoming the information proletariat, chained to our PCs and digging somewhere deep in the data mines. I wonder what Karl Marx would have made of it all? .? ?- Bobbie Johnson, at The Guardian. [Follow the linked title for the full article.] More About: Internet , Creating , Labour , Device , Ultimate
"Dreams of a future when technological advances would liberate us from the
2008-03-14 04:59:00 ?Dreams of a future when technological advances would liberate us from the daily drudge and allow more time for leisure appear to be fading, with futurologists predicting less talk about ?work-life balance? and more about ?work-life integration?.? - John Carvel, Wave goodbye to the nine to five, and say hello to virtual enterprise, The Guardian, 3/14/2008 More About: Future
Changing Themes?
2008-03-14 03:41:00 I seem to have forgotten how to change themes on Tumblr. Or did they put this feature in some obscure location I haven?t yet found? More About: Themes , Changing
tumbleweed
2008-03-14 03:04:00 tumbleweed: A desktop application for Tumblr. Works with Adobe Air, just like twhirl does. Beats Tumblr?s widget for the Mac, because it allows you to do all the varieties of posts Tumblr can handle. It also provides access to your dashboard. Wow!
"Saying that Hillary has executive branch experience is like saying Yoko On
2008-03-14 02:13:00 ?Saying that Hillary has executive branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.? - Commenter on Daily Kos (via marco, who got it from tgumbel) More About: Experience , Branch , Executive
"Workaholism is an introspection-killing disease, the anxious disability of
2008-03-14 02:03:00 ?Workaholism is an introspection-killing disease, the anxious disability of tunnel-vision middle managers.? - Camille Paglia (via marco, who got it from highindustrial) More About: Introspection , Disease , Disability , Killing
Duty Calls from xkcd.com. [Hat tip: Bobbie Sullivan]
2008-03-13 01:20:00 Duty Calls from xkcd.com. [Hat tip: Bobbie Sullivan ] More About: Duty
First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders webs
2008-03-12 17:29:00 First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders website: Cyber-demonstrations for free speech rights on the internet. [hat tip] More About: Webs , Launched
"You know, anybody can play a composition and use far-out chords and make i
2008-03-11 21:59:00 ?You know, anybody can play a composition and use far-out chords and make it sound wrong. It?s making it sound right that?s not easy.? - Thelonious Monk, 1961 More About: Play , Composition , Chords , Make
Adding Data Portability: Blogcatalog
2008-03-11 18:51:00 Adding Data Portability : Blogcatalog: Rich explains what this new BC feature is about and how it fits into the rapidly evolving social media landscape.
Lies and Consequences
2008-03-09 02:21:00 Lies and Consequences : opinion piece about plagiarism and other related ills More About: Lies
"What does America have going for it now? What could we send out to the wor
2008-03-09 01:19:00 ?What does America have going for it now? What could we send out to the world that might have the same impact on, say, Arabs and Muslims today that rock, jazz, and B-movies had on Russians and Europeans during the Cold War?? - Fred Kaplan More About: Send
"We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let me
2008-03-05 03:44:00 ?We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.? - Mma Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life (New York: Anchor, 2003), 91. More About: Women , Decisions
Who the heck is Dimitry Medvedev?
2008-03-03 05:09:00 A new president was elected today in Russia, but has anyone heard of him? Do the Russians even know him? Peter Finn aptly describes the ?election? as a coronation. More About: Medvedev
"This door is not alarmed."
2008-03-02 17:41:00 ?This door is not alarmed.? - Sign my wife saw on a door at work. More About: Door
William Shatner, ?Rocketman?[hat tip]
2008-02-28 17:07:00 William Shatner, ?Rocketman?[hat tip] More About: William Shatner , William
Bobbie?s Wordless Wednesday posts over at The Right Blue are definitely wor
2008-02-27 06:04:00 Bobbie?s Wordless Wednesday posts over at The Right Blue are definitely worth a look. More About: Posts
Good news for Blogspot bloggers
2008-02-24 03:36:00 Good news for Blogspot bloggers: Sometimes Blogger does things right. More About: News , Good News , Bloggers , Good
"Can someone please tell me why I can configure and order a pizza online an
2008-02-24 03:06:00 ?Can someone please tell me why I can configure and order a pizza online and have it delivered to my house in 30 minutes, but I can?t get an HMO referral form from my doctor without making four phone calls and have no confidence that the referral will get where it?s going without making a fifth call?? - Kathy Frederick, The Junk Drawer More About: Pizza , Online , Order , Configure
Some kitsch that came up in a conversation this evening.
2008-02-18 04:13:00 Some kitsch that came up in a conversation this evening. More About: Conversation , Evening
"The next president will ban torture and seek solutions for global warming
2008-02-11 05:01:00 ?The next president will ban torture and seek solutions for global warming and immigration. That?s a good start.? - ?The Coming Change? The Washington Post, 2/10/2008, p. B6. More About: Global Warming , President , Global , Torture , Solutions
Tuesday, Feb. 12, is election day in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia
2008-02-10 01:36:00 Tuesday, Feb. 12, is election day in Washington , DC, Maryland , and Virginia . More About: Election , Tuesday
I?m beginning to think that Sesame Street is the coolest...
More articles from this author:2008-02-10 01:10:00 I?m beginning to think that Sesame Street is the coolest show ever. More About: Sesame Street 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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