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Tapping Into Wireless | Wireless Investing
Taulli and Mock write: "Unscrupulous stock promoters exaggerated this theoretical advantage of radio way beyond reason at the time....it demonstrates what can happen when a revolutionary technology emerges in a capitalist society. Truly, there was a very real and promising industry in wireless telegraphy and telephony; it only needed more time to develop. The problems with stock scams at this time actually had more to do with corrupt financiers than with the radio industry...." Eventually, government regulators shut down the fraudulent companies.
wireless  history  telegraph  party-like-its-190x 
september 2011 by vielmetti
SELLING RADIO by Susan Smulyan | Kirkus Book Reviews
"A drab, ax-grinding account of the broadcast industry's formative years in the US. "
radio  broadcast  history  advertising 
september 2011 by vielmetti
The Ashtray: The Ultimatum (Part 1) - NYTimes.com
it had become commonplace among historians of science to employ the terms ‘Whig’ and ‘Whiggish,’ often accompanied by one or more of ‘hagiographic,’ ‘internalist,’ ‘triumphalist,’ even ‘positivist,’ to denigrate grand narratives of scientific progress
whig  history  politics 
march 2011 by vielmetti
From Judith Miller to Julian Assange » Pressthink
Everything a journalist learns that he cannot tell the public alienates him from the public.
history  journalism  media  wikileaks  alienation 
march 2011 by vielmetti
Daily Weather Maps Home Page - NOAA Central Library
This site provides access to historical daily weather maps from 1871 thru 2002. To see weather maps for 2003-present go to: http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index.html
wx  history  maps  research  science  weather 
february 2011 by vielmetti
Allan Guthrie's NOIR ORIGINALS
The new history of paperback original publishing began quietly in late 1949 with a brief article in the December 3 issue of Publisher's Weekly, stating that "Beginning in February [1950], original fiction including westerns and mysteries will be published at 25 cents in a pocket-size format by Fawcett Publications." The series, to be called Gold Medal Books, had actually already begun with two "experimental titles," both anthologies of material culled from two Fawcett magazines. The titles were The Best of True Magazine and The Best of Today's Woman.
books  paperbacks  superpatron  history  party-like-its-195x 
january 2011 by vielmetti
IBPA, the Independent Book Publishers Association
For an authoritative picture of those patterns, I turned to Kenneth C. Davis. The author of Don’t Know Much About History and other bestsellers in that series, Davis also wrote Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America. He began the lengthy conversation we had recently by pointing out that “books were rare luxury items” before paperbacks came along.

A study done around the time Pocket Books paperbacks were born found that America had about 500 bookstores, most of them in large cities and most of them serving the so-called carriage trade. Books were sold in department stores too, and via book clubs such as Book-of-the-Month, whose initial offering was in fact one book per month.
paperbacks  books  history  superpatron 
january 2011 by vielmetti
‘Damn right,’ I said · Eliot Weinberger reviews Decision Points from a Foucaultian perspective [London Review of Books]
Foucault found his theories embodied, sometimes unconvincingly, in writers such as Proust or Flaubert. He died in 1984, while Junior was still an ageing frat boy, and didn’t live to see this far more applicable text. For the questions that he, even then, declared hopelessly obsolete are the very ones that should not be asked about Decision Points ‘by’ George W. Bush (or by ‘George W. Bush’): ‘Who really spoke? Is it really he and not someone else? With what authenticity or originality? And what part of his deepest self did he express in his discourse?’
via:ouroboros  bush  history  politics  foucault  pomo 
december 2010 by vielmetti
GSWC: Societies & Museums
Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Inc.

Societies & Museums for
Washtenaw County Research
washtenaw  annarbor  museum  history  archives 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Ypsilanti Historical Society Archives
The Digital Photo Archives Project is a cooperative venture between the Ypsilanti Historical Society and the University of Michigan Digital Library System. When completed the collection will contain approximately 5,000 photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Images included cover people, buildings, homes, events, celebrations and other subjects. Click here to go to the web pages for the Digital Photo Archives Project.
ypsilanti  photo  archives  history 
february 2010 by vielmetti
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Two Dimensional GIS Browser
This is a special GIS (Geographic Information System) Browser that allows integration and interaction of historical maps with current geospatial data and other historical maps. Examination of the maps in GIS reveals changes in the history of the areas shown on the maps.
Eleven historical maps of the San Francisco Bay area from 1851 to 1926, eighteen historical maps of the Boston area from 1776 thru 1897, over thirty historical maps covering the area of the 1804 - 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, 35 maps of Washington D.C., and 32 maps of New York City are now available for viewing in the GIS Browser. Additional historic maps of U.S. cities and regions will be added in the near future including Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Yosemite Valley, and Lake Tahoe. The current geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes roads, lakes, vparks, state boundaries, digital orthophotos (aerial photography), topographic mapsheets, digital elevation models and satellite imagery. Many of these maps may also be viewed in our Google Earth viewer.
maps  history  gis  neogeography 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Byron Michigan History
In 1836 Byron was indicated by a dot on the territorial map, although all there was of the place at that time was a grist mill and two log cabins occupied by the families of Judge Dexter and his brother-in-law, Major F.J. Prevost. In June, 1836, Judge Dexter sold the above mentioned lands to his brother-in-law, S.S. Derby of Dexter, Calvin Smith of Ann Arbor and Pierpont Smith who formed an Association known as the Byron Mill Company. During this month there was a three days rain causing a great rise in the Shiawassee River, and the filling of the marshes with water caused the largest supply of mosquitoes ever known in Michigan. The men who were surveying and laying out the village of Byron were obliged to wear veils made of a kind of white lace, shaped like a flour sack and large enough to go over their shoulders and fastened at the top by the hat crown. Gloves had to be worn to protect their hands. When the surveying was completed a fine map was prepared representing the magnificent village of Byron with its broad avenues, several blocks of fine buildings, including stores, hotels, private dwellings, a fine dam across the east branch and a race to empty its waters into the main stream, a fine flour mill on the bank of the river, and a large side-wheeled steam boat lying close beside the mill laden with barrels of flour for Saginaw. But this boat never left its place beside the mill, although a flourmill was constructed in 1843. Even though the village had been laid out in the summer of ’36 it was not until April 28th, 1837 that the plat of the village was recorded.
byron  michigan  history 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Newspapers started small, cheap and with different standards | Howard Owens
For more than a decade, we expected to build online news organizations that could support a super structure of the modern newspaper newsroom -- with the all the reporters and editors and big story packages (look at all the emphasis we put on big Flash multimedia productions) and that we could keep doing journalism just the way we always did it.

While we bemoaned shovelware (taking the same exact print story and repurposing it for the Web), we took little time to really examine what might might be different about online publishing that should change the way news is gathered and presented.
newspapers  history  journalism  future  the-past-didnt-go-anywhere 
june 2009 by vielmetti
OnTheCommons.org » Back When Food Was Really Local
To browse through The Food of a Younger Land is to be transported into a time when mothers improvised recipes because of shortages of certain ingredients and fathers brought home fresh game from the woods and mussels from the ocean. The book describes the “sugaring off” parties in Vermont, where people hosted neighborhood celebrations as they finished off the annual tapping of sap from trees for maple syrup. It describes the making of persimmon beer among Mississippi African-Americans. In and around Darlington, South Carolina, people would host outdoor gatherings and serve “chicken bog,” a distinctive chicken-and-rice dish. Nebraskans loved buffalo barbeque and Wisconsin folks enjoyed sour-dough pancakes.
food  history  locavore  chicken-bog  party-like-its-193x 
june 2009 by vielmetti
More Bamboozling - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com
A thousand years hence, it will be easy to miss the fact that the text comes from two different periods of time, separated by 62 years. Will all information (regardless of when it was produced) end up packaged in one agglutinated mass? Perhaps this is an example of an unintentional falsification — where we completely loss track of context, where there is no longer a before and after. Only an endless present.
archives  history  context 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Cabinet of Wonders: Semaphore as Information Network
As a result, with the success of the Lille line, optical telegraph lines were built over the entirety of France over the next twenty years or so. Napoleon loved the system, having his own portable station built which he carried with him on campaign. He also poured money into building more of the network. It wasn't cheap, because each station had to be manned by a highly-trained person, who observed the signal from other towers and knew how to pass it on. But the French system of fast communication was one of the key ingredients in France's success during the Napoleonic War, and so they hung onto it as long as they could. Claude Chappe himself remained in his position as the head of the system for over 30 years, until there was an administration change.
history  technology  networks  telegraph  communication  chappe  semaphore 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Michigan State Normal College, Yearbook, 1904-1905
with a careful accounting of all of the courses taught and a list of students
ypsilanti  history  michigan 
may 2009 by vielmetti
Dusty Diary: Response to Reader Question: Am I Living in Allie's Relative's House?!
one way to write local history is to read old diaries and fill in the blanks; dusty diary does this for ypsilanti
ypsilanti  michigan  history 
may 2009 by vielmetti
The History of Eating Utensils
The Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences houses the Rietz Collection of Food Technology. Containing nearly 1,400 items, this collection was assembled by Carl Austin Rietz, an inventor and businessman in the food industry. His interest in the industry led him on travels around the world to collect objects used in the production, processing, storage, presentation, preparation, and serving of food.
food  design  history  cooking  anthropology  fork  spoon  knife  culinary-history 
may 2009 by vielmetti
Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Blog Archive » Virtual Museum of the Gulag Seized
Depressing and not getting enough notice: masked police recently raided the office of the Russian human rights group Memorial, which has been digitally cataloguing the artifacts and names of those affected by the Soviet Gulag. The police took drives containing biographical information on more than 50,000 victims of Stalinist repression and over 10,000 digital photographs, among other unique archival documents. We worked with Memorial on our Gulag history project. (Thanks to Elena Razlogova for bringing this to my attention.)
history  archives  censorship  russia  risks  stalin  gulag  party-like-its-193x 
january 2009 by vielmetti
BBC - History - Timelines - British Timeline
bbc  britain  history  timeline  timelines 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Program for the Future Conference — Program for the Future
The 1968 DemoEngelbart dreamed of technology and tools that increased our Collective Intelligence and gave us a stunning example of how it works. Now it's up to us to take up the challenge. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Engelbart's astounding demo, the Program for the Future is bringing together some of the best minds in science, media, business and education -- and we hope you will be among them -- to explore the question: what's next?
history  nethistory  engelbart  doug  future  the-future-is-now-my-people 
january 2009 by vielmetti
ANR | Vegetarians and Straight Edgers, 1906
H. Martin, "Just a Few of the Regular Diners at a Broadway Physical Culture Restaurant."
Illustration for "Eating Walnut Croquettes and Broiled Peanuts with the 'Straight Edgers' and
Indulging in Date Butter and Nut Sandwiches at a Vegetarian Restaurant,"
New York World, Sunday, June 10, 1906
food  history  newspaper  vegan  vegetarian  party-like-its-1906  straight-edgers  comics 
december 2008 by vielmetti
§ 91. A short history of telephone numbers
In the USSR there were also ten letters standing beside numerals on a dial: А, Б, В, Г, Д, Е, Ж, И, К, Л. The letter З wasn’t used not to be confused with three.
history  telephone  russia  telephones  design  ussr 
december 2008 by vielmetti
James Ashley - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society
In 1869, President Ulysses Grant appointed Ashley governor of the Montana Territory. A majority of the people residing in Montana favored the Democratic Party and opposed Ashley's Radical Republican views. He served as governor for fifteen months and returned to Toledo after President Grant removed him from office. Ashley then became involved with railroad construction and helped to establish the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railroad. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1890 and 1892, but Ohioans refused to elect him in both elections. He died on September 16, 1896, in Alma, Michigan.
ashley  james  toledo  ohio  history  annarbor 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Speak Up › Otl Aicher: An Expanded, Abridged Story
By now some of you are aware of the stress-inducing book we are working on, Graphic Design Referenced. This week I had the pleasure of writing the entry of German designer Otl Aicher. Unfortunately I got carried away and wrote much more than the word count I knew I had to meet. So, since the book will only have a 285-word version I wanted to share the extended one for anyone that might be interested in learning more about this great designer or just getting an abridged version of his story — this post also combines a segment of what we are writing for our entry on Summer Olympic identities. Most of the information here is taken from the wonderful monograph, Otl Aicher, written by Markus Rathgeb. And don't miss the Otl Aicher Flickr Pool.
design  history  germany  olympics  typography  aicher  otl  identity  graphics  rathgeb  markus 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools: About Us: vanityfair.com
The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. Looking back at that belief during hearings this fall on Capitol Hill, Alan Greenspan said out loud, “I have found a flaw.” Congressman Henry Waxman pushed him, responding, “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right; it was not working.” “Absolutely, precisely,” Greenspan said. The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.
stiglitz  joseph  greenspan  alan  waxman  henry  politics  economics  essay  finance  crisis  history  ideology 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
history  britain  london  oldbailey  law  archives 
december 2008 by vielmetti
A History of Online Information ... - Google Book Search
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing on personal experience, extensive research, and interviews with many of the key participants, the book describes the individuals, projects, and institutions of the period. It also corrects many common errors and misconceptions and provides milestones for many of the significant developments in online systems and technology.
party-like-its-1976  nethistory  autonote  history  history-of-computing  reitman  walter 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Airspeed: Ghost Airports - A Tour of Paul Freeman's Abandoned and Little-Known Airports Archive
aviation history via abandoned airfield
airport  archives  history  aviation 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The History of Peaine Township
Peaine Township was formed in March of 1847, and comprised all of Beaver Island. The first Township meeting was held on May 1st of that year at Alva Cable's store and Indian trading post. In 1848 James Jesse Strang and some followers formed a colony on Beaver Island, building houses and roads and planting crops. As they strengthened their hold, they began to impose rules that drove away the earlier settlers. Strang was assassinated in 1856 and most of his followers were expelled from the Island. Within a few weeks some of the earlier settlers, mostly fisherman, returned to the Island, as well as many newly-arrived Irish immigrants. James Cable, nephew of Alva Cable, also had a trading post at the South End and a dock to supply cordwood to Great Lakes steamers during the 1840's and 1850's.
party-like-its-1848  beaver-island  michigan  history  lake-michigan 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Our History | American Druze Society - Michigan Chapter
The 'El-Bakaurat Ed-Dirziyat' meetings were held once a month, and the members met on the first Sunday of every month. Organized meetings were conducted, and impeccable records were kept. Dues of .50 cents per member were collected monthly, and absent members without a valid reason for the absence were fined 25 cents. A 25 cent fine was also levied on a member for tardiness, as well as for talking out of turn. If a member talked badly of another member in public, and if a member's conduct was not conducive to the Druze Social Values, the member was suspended from the meetings for a definite period of time.
druze  michigan  history  mutual-aid-society  social-club 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Bootstrapping Knowledge Representation
ABSTRACT. The symbol-based, correspondence epistemology used in AI is contrasted with the constructivist, coherence epistemology promoted by cybernetics. The latter leads to bootstrapping knowledge representations, in which different parts of the cognitive system mutually support each other. Gordon Pask's entailment meshes and their implementation in the ThoughtSticker program are reviewed as a basic application of this methodology. Entailment meshes are then extended to entailment nets: directed graph representations governed by the "bootstrapping axiom", determining which concepts are to be distinguished or merged. This allows a constant restructuring and elicitation of the conceptual network. Semantic networks and frame-like representations with inheritance can be expressed in this very general scheme by introducing a basic ontology of node and link types. Entailment nets are then generalized to associative nets characterized by weighted links.
history  collaboration  web  computer  questions  knowledge  conductance  theory  intelligence  hci  semantic  cybernetics 
december 2008 by vielmetti
NSFNET reunion, a perspective
Thanks to everyone I saw there (cja, mayabe, dsobeloff, glee, srh) and especially to those who were young enough in 1987 to disagree with the networking orthodoxy of the time (because we had nothing to lose and everything to win).
history  networks  nsfnet  event  notes  reunion  party-like-its-1987 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Only Collect « a historian’s craft
And the work is: Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You’re five years old. Don’t presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it’s just one line saying “Never read this again”; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge. And the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is organization, or librarianship. You must keep tabs on everything you collect, somehow; a system must be had, and the system must be idiot-proof. That is to say, you should be able to look back on it six months for now and not be completely stymied as to why you’ve organized things that way.
library  lifehacks  history  research  organization  inspiration  collecting  practice 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Revenge of the Nerds
What happened next was that, some time in late 1958, Steve Russell, one of McCarthy's grad students, looked at this definition of eval and realized that if he translated it into machine language, the result would be a Lisp interpreter.

This was a big surprise at the time. Here is what McCarthy said about it later in an interview:

Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into [IBM] 704 machine code, fixing bugs, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. So at that point Lisp had essentially the form that it has today....
design  history  language  lisp  graham  paul  russell  steve  mccarthy 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The Sir John Soane's Museum Web Page
Welcome to the web page of the house and Museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect.

Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837.

Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections. Having been deeply disappointed by the conduct of his two sons, one of whom survived him, he determined to establish the house as a museum to which 'amateurs and students' should have access.
design  history  research  art  creativity  architecture  london  museums  archive  party-like-its-1815  soane  soane  john 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Mapping the Project,
This was a very unhappy interface. And small wonder. No doubt this entire virtual environment was being encrypted, decrypted, reencrypted, anonymously routed through satellites and cables, emulated on alien machinery through ill-fitting, out-of-date protocols, then displayed through long-dead graphics standards. Dismembered, piped, compressed, packeted, unpacketed, decompressed, unpiped and re-membered. Worse yet, the place was old. Virtual buildings didn’t age like physical ones, but they aged in subtle pathways of arcane decline, in much the way that their owners did. A little bijou table in the corner had a pronounced case of bit-rot: from a certain angle it lost all surface tint.
history  media  time  media  dead  sterling  bruce  flatware  bruce 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Bibliography — William H. Taft (1857 - 1930) - Miller Center of Public Affairs
taft  taft  william  history  scholes  marie 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Rhode Island Historical Society
The Society has the largest and most important historical collections in existence relating to Rhode Island . These collections include some 25,000 objects, 5,000 manuscripts, 100,000 books and printed items, 400,000 photographs and maps, and 9 million feet of motion-picture film. The Society owns and maintains the notable John Brown House ( 52 Power Street , Providence ), a National Historic Landmark built in 1786; the Aldrich House ( 110 Benevolent Street , Providence ), also a National Historic Landmark, built in 1822; and the Library of Rhode Island History ( 121 Hope Street , Providence ). The Society also maintains the Museum of Work and Culture ( 42 South Main Street , Woonsocket ), a regional history museum devoted to the ethnic history of northern Rhode Island . The Society offers through the Newell D. Goff Education Center a variety of educational programs including workshops, lectures, films, and walking tours of Providence .
rhodeisland  history  museum  providence 
november 2008 by vielmetti
What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - Project Gutenberg
Title What's Wrong with the World
Contents The homelessness of man -- Imperialism, or the mistake about man -- Feminism, or the mistake about woman -- Education, or the mistake about the child -- The home of the man - Three notes
books  history  book  reading  america  chesterton  gk  party-like-its-1910 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage Conditions in the United States
maps of the mortgage mess; these need a mejn-style cartogram to make them make more sense
maps  history  economics  subprime  mortgage  meltdown  map  mapping  neogeography  neo-geo-fedo 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Master of 500 Hats: The Secret History of Silicon Valley: Thu 11/20 Brown Bag Lunch @ Computer History Museum (Mt View)
Next Thursday, November 20th, Steve Blank will be giving a lunchtime talk at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on the Secret History of Silicon Valley. You can check out a previous video of his talk below:
blank  steve  siliconvalley  history  nethistory  computer-history-museum  video  secret-history-of-silicon-valley 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Pewabic Pottery - History
Pewabic Pottery was founded in 1903 by Mary Chase Perry (later Mary Chase Perry Stratton) and her partner, Horace Caulkins (developer of the Revelation Kiln), at the height of the Arts & Crafts movement in America. The Pottery's first home was a stable on Alfred Street in Detroit. Four years later, Pewabic Pottery moved to a new facility on East Jefferson designed by architect William Buck Stratton in the Tudor Revival style. In 1991, the building (which still houses the Pottery) and its contents were designated a National Historic Landmark and today is Michigan's only historic pottery.
pottery  ceramics  tile  party-like-its-1903  detroit  michigan  museum  history  arts-and-crafts 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Pewabic Pottery - Museum and Education Center
Pewabic Pottery is a living treasure and offers visitors an exciting glimpse of a little known part of American history. Founded in 1903 during the Arts & Crafts Movement, Pewabic is nationally renowned for its tile and pottery in unique glazes. Today it is a non profit ceramic art education center which welcomes 70,000 visitors annually.
michigan  history  detroit  art  museum  pottery  tile  pewabic  party-like-its-1903  arts-and-crafts 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Gospel of Consumption | Orion Magazine
There was, for a time, a visionary alternative. In 1930 Kellogg Company, the world’s leading producer of ready-to-eat cereal, announced that all of its nearly fifteen hundred workers would move from an eight-hour to a six-hour workday. Company president Lewis Brown and owner W. K. Kellogg noted that if the company ran “four six-hour shifts . . . instead of three eight-hour shifts, this will give work and paychecks to the heads of three hundred more families in Battle Creek.”
battlecreek  michigan  kellogg  community  party-like-its-1930  history  marketing  work  lifestyle  consumerism  consumer 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Who killed the blogosphere?
death of the blog predicted, film at 11
blog  community  history  twitter  weblogs  blogging  blogosphere  its-not-dead-yet  film-at-11 
november 2008 by vielmetti
if:book: On the Virtues of Preexisting Material: A Manifesto, By Rick Prelinger
My partner Megan and I run a research library in San Francisco that we built around our personal book, periodical and ephemera collections. At some point it got a life of its own and started growing like mushrooms in Mendocino. Many of you know it because you’re our honored shelvers. We joke about how it’s a library full of bad ideas; I characterize it as 98% false consciousness. It’s full of outdated information, extinct procedures, self-serving explanations, ideas that never passed the smell test, and lies. And yet that’s where you find the truth. You can’t judge the past at its best, you need to confront its imperfections. And of course that’s true for the present as well.
manifesto  prelinger  rick  growing-like-mushrooms  ideas  history  books  archives  the-past-didnt-go-anywhere 
november 2008 by vielmetti
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Underwear as outwear
Elaborate bra straps. Designer trunks riding above low-slung jeans. The fashion for flaunting one's underwear may have more to do with conspicuous consumption than a decline in decency, says Lisa Jardine.
history  underwear  clothes  bbc  conspicuous-consumption  conspicuous-waste 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Media History Through Gartner Hype Cycle Graphs: 1995-2008 - Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
Besides, they illustrate this wonderful quote from David Brooks's "Lord of the Meme" column in NYTimes: "In order to cement your status in the cultural elite, you want to be already sick of everything no one else has even heard of."
history  future  hype  gartner  trend  visualization  brooks  david  lord-of-the-meme 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons.”
library  history  internet  digital  biodiversity  encyclopedia  encyclopédie  biodiversité  biologia  biodiversidade  biodiversite  biologie 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Original Literature of Vintage Mechanical Musical Instruments
Many collectors of this unique slice of our musical heritage also collect original literature associated with the manufacturing and marketing of these wonderous machines. All too often, this segment of our collecting passion tends to be obscured by the highly visibile machines themselves, appealing to the 3 senses of sight, hearing and touch. Very often, these delightfully appealing machines are shared with the general public, be they home tours, local charity events, association events, and/or neighborhood gatherings.

However, serious research into the remarkable history of these music machines can only be realized through access to original literature. Regretably, much of this original literature tends to be hidden away in filing cabinets, workshops, libraries, et al, and all too often not accessible to serious researchers. In my own 40+ years in this delightful avocation, I too accumulated my fair share of original literature.
music  history  massdig  player-piano  digitization 
october 2008 by vielmetti
The Polish Pioneers of Calumet, Michigan
This blog explores the Polish community of Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan.They were not the largest ethnic group- but many Midwestern families trace their ancestry back to a miner in Calumet. The first settlers were from German Poland. The 1910 US Census enumerated miners hailing from Russian Poland and Austrian Poland, as well.
michigan  blog  history  mining  calumet  polish  yooper  keewenaw 
october 2008 by vielmetti
NYC Subway Historical Maps
archive of maps
design  maps  history  nyc  transportation  newyork  take-the-a-train 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Efficient Markets Hypothesis: History
Around this time, Leonard Jimmie Savage, who had discovered Bachelier’s 1914 publication in the Chicago or Yale library sent half a dozen “blue ditto” postcards to colleagues, asking “does any one of you know him?” Paul Samuelson was one of the recipients. He couldn't find the book in the MIT library, but he did discover a copy of Bachelier’s Ph.D. thesis.
postcard  blue-ditto-postcard  history  research  economics  reference  efficiency  timeline  efficientmarketshypothesis  emh 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Special Guest Post: Revisiting John McPhee on NYC's Greenmarkets—The Catbird Seat: Friends & Guests—Emdashes
I saw this news of a vendor ejected from New York City's Greenmarket farmers markets, for offering products not raised on his own farm, just after I read John McPhee's "Giving Good Weight," an article on the markets from the July 3, 1978, New Yorker. (Not online; link is to abstract.) The Greenmarket program had only begun in 1976. McPhee worked for several months for Hodgson Farm of Newburgh, N.Y., manning stands (in "black Harlem," Union Square, the Upper East Side and Brooklyn) and observing the initial interactions between farmers--who were new to selling on the streets of the city--and urbanites, who were often clueless about agriculture but, of course, were also finicky know-it-alls.
food  history  writing  nyc  mcphee  john  put-the-california-peaches-back-on-the-truck  greenmarket  ubifarm 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Monopoly information
The Hasbro version of the history of Monopoly is bullshit. The real history is closer to this very abridged version, which is supported by patents, Ralph Anspach's research and book, the article excerpted at the link below, and The Monopoly Companion (Philip Orbanes' book): Lizzie Magie invented a game called The Landlord's Game to push Henry George's Single Tax concept. The lesson intended was that only land should be taxed; anything else is bad for the masses and only good for the rich—that this evolved into Monopoly is not too surprising.
monopoly  taxes  history  games  boardgames  darrow  clarence 
october 2008 by vielmetti
"THE LANDLORD'S GAME TO MONOPOLY: A HISTORICAL REVIEW."
MONOPOLY HISTORY, LANDLORDS GAME HISTORY
Game Images, Game Rules, Articles, Commentary
History of monopoly and Landlords games; popular myths vs. historical facts...

MONOPOLY AND LANDLORD'S GAME
A HISTORICAL REVIEW
history  games  gaming  game  board  boardgames  boardgame  monopoly  darrow  clarence  parker-brothers  levine  jay 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Stompin' Tom Connors lyrics - Bridge Came Tumbling Down
Nineteen men were drowned in June of 1958
In old Vancouver town
There were seventy-nine men working
To build this brand new bridge
To span the second and narrows
And connect up with the ridge
Till a big wind hit the bridge
And the bridge came tumbling down
party-like-its-1958  stompin-tom-connors  disaster  via:wcbn  vancouver  bridge  history  music  lyrics  down-home-show 
october 2008 by vielmetti
HistoricAerials.com
HistoricAerials.com provides free online access to historic and current aerial photography. You can view aerial photography from the 1930s through today. Use our multi-year comparison tools to detect changes in property. Come and explore your favorite points of interest at HistoricAerials.com.
maps  history  photography  aerial  retro  party-like-its-19xx  awesome 
september 2008 by vielmetti
1908 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wiki version of history
party-like-its-1908  wiki  history  tell-the-wikitruth 
september 2008 by vielmetti
The Cumberland News
Cumbria features prominently among the photos in the collection. After Francis’s death his sons and grandsons continued the work of chronicling British towns and villages, so the images range in time from the late 19th century, when Francis started, to the second half of the 20th century, when his grandson finished the task. And this range of several decades therefore shows how many familiar places changed over time. They allow us, for example, to see Penrith’s market place as it looked in 1893 and contrast it with a picture of the town centre taken in 1955. The photographs are often quite important historical records, as spokeswoman for the collection Julia Skinner pointed out. “Workington bus station on Murray Road was the first purpose-built covered bus station in the country,” she said. “It has been extended over time, but the core building is still there.
history  photography  cities  london  images  party-like-its-189x 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Girl, Interrupted
Patty Hearst was a rich man’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom by a group whose demands were delivered through public “communiqués” sent to radio stations. Clearly she would have made news in any era, but it took something more than the facts of her case, spectacular though they may have been, to account for the impact she had on the American public (between February 1974 and March 1976, she was on the cover of Newsweek seven times). The central question about her experience was also being asked in a million tiny dramas that were unfolding across the country—ruptures that turned on blue jeans and broken curfews and birth-control pills, rather than on joining a gang of armed revolutionaries: Had this well-tended and much-loved daughter really crossed over? And if she had, was she so far gone that even her own people might not want her back?
history  culture  america  terrorism  hearst  patty  manson  charles  party-like-its-1974  symbionese-liberation-army 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Gamasutra - Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981
This four-year period -- from 1977 to 1981 -- contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroids) and the development and release of its first home computing platforms.
design  history  business  arcade  atari  party-like-its-1979  gaming  game 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web - Waxy.org
"But before we go too far, let's take a moment and have a look at just what the Internet is and what it takes to start surfing through Cyberspace. You may already be a net surfer and you may want to skip this section, but if you're just starting out, we suggest you spend a few minutes getting familiar with some of the most common Internet terms." Dig that mid-1990s design aesthetic. Grey background, huge 3D rendered header graphic, Times New Roman italic, centered text... It's 1995, all right.
history  internet  video  media  vhs  computerhistory  nethistory  party-like-its-1995 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Arcade Ambience Project
The arcade ambience project is an attempt of mine to simulate the audio ambience of a crowded arcade room during the golden age of arcades in the 1980s. This is a sound I think that has been lost over the years and does not exist in today's pitiful arcades in my opinion. My main motivation for this project was to create some ambience in my basement arcade, having a somewhat authentic arcade background hum while I or my guests play on my MAME arcade cabinet. I thought that maybe others who have cabinets (or just miss real arcade nostalgia) could also benefit from my work.
music  history  audio  awesome  ambient  arcade  videogames  party-like-its-198x  sounds-like-pinball-petes  via:mitten 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Antique Radio Classified--Restoration Topics
My grandfather was a remarkable man who was fascinated by technology and built all kinds of electronic and mechanical gadgetry during his lifetime. He started working on electronic home projects in an era when components were only just becoming available to hobbyists. Among other things, he built electronic musical instruments, radios, and even a TV, around which all the neighbors gathered to watch some of the first BBC broadcasts from the Crystal Palace in London where he lived. In the late 1940s, he built an electronic wire recorder. Tape recording had not yet been introduced commercially and steel wire, thinner than a human hair, was the only medium available for making audio recordings. Although by this time wire recorders were being introduced to the domestic market in America, in Britain they were still a rarity, confined mainly to the military and to offices where they were used as dictaphones.
history  research  radio  audio  electronics  britain  sound  archives 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples are attempts to censor a photograph, a file, or even a whole website, especially by means of cease-and-desist letters. Instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes quickly receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2] Mike Masnick said he jokingly coined the term in January 2005, “to describe [this] increasingly common phenomenon.”[3] The effect is related to John Gilmore's observation that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."[4]
wiki  history  internet  cyberculture  psychology  streisandeffect 
august 2008 by vielmetti
PhiloBiblos: Cats in the Print Shop
Otago University's Special Collections librarian, Donald Kerr, posted a fascinating query to Ex-Libris a few months ago, and I was delighted to see that the story got some press in New Zealand this week with a story in the Otago Daily Times. On f.250 of the library's copy of Astesanus de Asts Summa de casibus conscientiae (Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, 1472/3), Kerr discovered three feline footprints in ink, and asked other holders of the book to check their copies to see if further footprints were evident.
books  design  history  printing  pets  cats  via:britta  kerr  donald  i-can-has-incunabula 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Polish Stamps of 1963 | The Ministry of Type
very nice stamps from Poland, 1963, showing space program; notable use of roman numerals in date e.g. 8.XII.1964
stamps  design  polish  poland  fonts  party-like-its-1963  space  space-the-final-frontier  history  typography 
august 2008 by vielmetti
pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Apple I BASIC as a Mac OS X Scripting Language
recompiled apple I basic as a macos scripting language; for when you need to have the awesome power of basic in your hands.
scripting  macosx  osx  history  apple  mac  cli  basic  retro  woz  if-its-good-enough-for-woz-its-good-enough-for-me  party-like-its-1976 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Aug. 2, 1873: San Francisco's First Cable Car Conquers Nob Hill
1873: Andrew Hallidie tests the first cable car in San Francisco.
Hallidie is said to have conceived his idea in 1869 while watching a team of horses being whipped as they struggled to pull a car up wet cobblestones on Nob Hill. They slipped and were dragged to their deaths.
It so happened that Hallidie's father held the British patent for wire-rope cable, and when the son came to the Gold Rush fields he put it to use hauling ore-laden cars from mines. So it wasn't too much of a stretch for him to envision horseless cable cars carrying passengers up the steep slopes of San Francisco's hills.
party-like-its-1873  sanfrancisco  cable-car  hallidie  andrew  history  transportation 
august 2008 by vielmetti
In Defense of the ‘60s -- In These Times
Peter Marcuse is professor emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University and was involved in the demonstrations at the University of California-Berkeley in 1968. His father, Herbert Marcuse, was a founding sponsor of In These Times and was one of the philosophers who provided a theoretical basis for the 1968 protest movements and the New Left.
party-like-its-1968  marcuse  peter  boomers  history 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Beyond Steel historical GIS project at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Leheigh University (Bethlehem, PA, USA) recently launched a historical GIS project called Beyond Steel. Here’s the description from the front page:

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project is comprised of the early twentieth-century Sanborn fire insurance maps, Sholes’ Directory of the Bethlehems, 1900-1901, 1900-1902 Bethlehem Steel employee lists, a contemporary database of streets, and selected information from the 1900 Census report. The result is a geospatial presentation of turn of the century Bethlehem population and a context for more specialized visualization of workers in the steel industry.
lehigh  bethlehem  pennsylvania  steel  party-like-its-1901  neogeography  sanborn-fire-maps  census  gis  history 
august 2008 by vielmetti
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000
This version of Vivian Sobchack's essay was originally published in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Mark Dery (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995): 11-28.
cyberculture  history  netculture  nethistory  party-like-its-1995  cyberspace-we-hardly-knew-you  mondo-2000 
july 2008 by vielmetti
About MOTAC - The Museum of the American Cocktail
Having roots in New Orleans, the American cocktail has influenced music, theater, art, film, and politics around the world during its two-century-old history.
new-orleans  via:metagrrrl  cocktail  alcohol  history  museum  archives 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Modern Mechanix: A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa
contemporary interview with Lisa development team
apple  lisa  interview  party-like-its-1983  design  history 
july 2008 by vielmetti
The Rotary Club of Marquette, Michigan - The First Fellowship
Rotary was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. on 23 February 1905. Its founder was Paul Harris, an attorney. On that day Paul met with three friends – Silvester Schiele, a coal dealer; Gustavus E. Loeher, a mining engineer; and Hiram E. Shorey a mer
rotary  history  party-like-its-1905 
july 2008 by vielmetti
June 20, 1840: A Simple Matter of Dots and Dashes
The code Morse devised in partnership with Alfred Vail uses a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers
electronics  history  morse-code  radio  morse  samuel  vail  alfred  party-like-its-1840  telegraph 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Charles Tilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
n his obituary, Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger stated that Tilly "literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history".[1] Adam Ashforth, of Northwestern University, described Tilly as
history  thesis  wikipedia  sociology  clio-and-minerva 
july 2008 by vielmetti
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