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A brief history of the History Channel
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history  channel 
10 weeks ago by fjordaan
TwimeMachine - Read your old tweets
Use TwimeMachine to easily browse through your old tweets (max 3200). Read what you said ages ago.
twitter  history  paged  archive 
january 2012 by fjordaan
Ben Alman » jQuery BBQ: Back Button & Query Library
jQuery BBQ leverages the HTML5 hashchange event to allow simple, yet powerful bookmarkable #hash history. In addition, jQuery BBQ provides a full .deparam() method, along with both hash state management, and fragment / query string parse and merge utility methods.
jquery  bbq  javascript  ajax  history  hashchange  html5 
december 2011 by fjordaan
Art in the Age of Commerce: The Mona Lisa Curse | Brain Pickings
In The Mona Lisa Curse, an ambitious documentary available on YouTube in 12 installments, Hughes — curmudgeonly and keenly insightful as ever — traces the evolution of the art world’s devolution. From archival footage of Hughes, once a suave TIME critic, in his 1960′s prime to insider accounts of some of the greatest art events and deals of today, the series is as much an exemplar of investigative journalism as it is an absorbing and eye-opening piece of cultural storytelling.
art  documentary  history  money  watchlater 
march 2011 by fjordaan
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered. We welcome comments, feedback and corrections. More >
smarthistory  art  education  history  reference  kickstarter 
february 2011 by fjordaan
Spacelog: space exploration stories from the original transcripts
Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.
astronomy  history  nasa  space  archive  transcripts  logs  spacelog  moon  landing  crowdsourcing 
january 2011 by fjordaan
ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
archive  delicious  flickr  history  yahoo  jasonscott 
january 2011 by fjordaan
Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun | The Awl
All of which brings us to the backstory of the Fourteenth Amendment, and to the thorny history of gender-neutral language in English. Prescriptive grammarians have been calling for "he" as the gender-neutral pronoun of choice since at least 1745, when a British schoolmistress named Anne Fisher laid down the law in A New Grammar.
history  language  linguistics  sex  grammar  pronoun  discrimination  gender  neutral  male  female  english 
january 2011 by fjordaan
That Gormandizer Man: How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!
Last week I was waiting for the bus and wondered why they are numbered as they are, and why some have letters in front of a number.
london  bus  history  transport  buses  numbers 
january 2011 by fjordaan
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.
gui  reference  ui  usability  desktop  gallery  history  retro  computer  OS 
october 2010 by fjordaan
Twistory
Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!
twitter  history  calendar  archive  backup 
july 2010 by fjordaan
History Pin: Overlaying Google Street View with Historical Photos - information aesthetics
History Pin [historypin.com] hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world's historical images and stories. The website acts like a digital time machine, and uses Google Maps and Street View technology to allow the wide public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto an interactive map. Uniquely, Historypin lets people layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, providing a series of geo-located time tunnel views into the past.
history  pin  historypin  google  street  view  streetview  historical  photos  overlaid  infosthetics 
july 2010 by fjordaan
Open Plaques
Open Plaques is a service that aims to find and provide data about all the commemorative 'plaques' (often blue and round) that can be found across the UK and worldwide.
britain  geodata  history  plaques  uk  blue 
april 2010 by fjordaan
Lee Byron » What » Listening History
The result is a printed poster, generated using Processing. The poster shows the changing trends in listening history by showing a stacked graph of all musicians that user has listened to over time, and their changing interest in the eyes of that user. The poster is a sort of virtual mirror, reflecting very personally significant events made visible by the changes in listening trends.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  graph  history  last.fm  listening  music  processing  visualisation 
july 2009 by fjordaan
Graffiti from Pompeii
Each inscription begins with a reference to where it was found (region.insula.door number). The second number is the reference to the publication of the inscription in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Volume 4.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  funny  graffiti  history  pompeii  roman 
june 2009 by fjordaan
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS is fascinating reading. Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  anniversary  codinghorror  computerworld  diagram  family  history  timeline  tree  unix 
june 2009 by fjordaan
HANSARD 1803–2005
This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files. Material on this site remains under Parliamentary Copyright. Within these copyright constraints, you are encouraged to use and to explore the information provided.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  debates  hansard  history  parliament  political  uk  xml 
june 2009 by fjordaan
Dan Carlin - Common Sense
In "Hardcore History" the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge. It's not for everyone. But the innovative style and approach has made "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History" a New Media hit.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  carlin  dan  history  podcast  tolisten 
november 2008 by fjordaan
History Commons
The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue, providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of government and private sector entities. It is collaborative and thus allows individuals to build upon the work of others.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  collaborative  commons  community  grassroots  history  investigations  timelines 
october 2008 by fjordaan
Aza’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can’t know that because the browser secures the user’s history, right? Wrong.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  aza  bookmarking  clever  detect  geek  history  humanized  icons  links  mozilla  raskin  social  ux  visited 
may 2008 by fjordaan
BBC NEWS | Technology | Victorian 'supercomputer' is reborn
That is the view of Doron Swade, the man who is behind realising the creation of the famed Difference Engine No 2 which has just gone on display in Silicon Valley.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  babbage  bbc  computer  difference  doron  engine  history  swade 
may 2008 by fjordaan
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org
From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" - a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  adventure  drive  fiction  game  history  infocom  interactive  waxy 
april 2008 by fjordaan
Let's Tell a Story Together
Let's Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction) Copyright 2006 by Jimmy Maher
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  adventure  book  fiction  games  history  interactive  jimmy  maher 
april 2008 by fjordaan
Forty Three Thousand untagged posts DONE. | MetaTalk
Holy crap, the back tagging project (recent update) is complete! 43,000 old posts have been keyworded by a team of hundreds of volunteers here. A huge thanks to all, I never thought we'd finish up all those old MeFi posts.
netvouzimported  netvouzpublic  history  keyword  mefi  metafilter  tagging 
april 2008 by fjordaan

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