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Stephen Walter’s Map Of Subterranean London | Londonist
"Walter has painstakingly charted the buried rivers, Tube lines, bunkers, sewers, government tunnels and other hypogeal secrets of London."
london  maps  underground  secrets  history 
7 days ago by kevan
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark - Mental Floss
"The chemical cocktail that P. luminescens uses to clear out its competition probably helped kill off other pathogens that might have infected the soldiers’ wounds."
bacteria  history  science  blood  via:ole 
6 weeks ago by kevan
The ASC: Spomenik—Jan Kempenaers and “The End of History” « John Bailey's Bailiwick
"Some of the Spomeniks show clear evidence of neglect, with underbrush and trees taking root around them. It is difficult to determine whether the piece shown above is a fallen fragment of a greater structure—or whether its concrete kindling tumble is its actual design."
architecture  war  history  dereliction 
7 weeks ago by kevan
The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men' - Benjamin Schmidt - Entertainment - The Atlantic
"Using digitized books, movie subtitles, and tools like the Google Ngram viewer [...] it's possible to write a computer program that looks at every single phrase to see if it really appeared in print in the 1960s."
language  history  television  via:danielle 
8 weeks ago by kevan
London’s Longest Roads And Where They Lead To | Londonist
"A single road connects Lambeth North Tube station to Brighton Pier. The A23, as it’s now known, is another old Roman road, a fact that becomes readily apparent if you follow its largely straight course on a map."
travel  london  brighton  maps  history 
11 weeks ago by kevan
Tom Phillips: Sculpture & Mixed Media: 20 Sites n Years
"Every year on or around the same day (24th May - 2nd June) at the same time of day and from the same position a photograph is taken at each of the twenty locations on this map."
photography  history  london 
february 2012 by kevan
The Millions : The Arcades Project: Martin Amis’ Guide to Classic Video Games
"He’s technically correct, too, about the fact that, when the aliens descend to the very lowest rung, “you can slide around underneath them, touching them with your nozzle, and survive!” — but I’m not sure he’ll be wanting that sentence to show up in The Quotable Amis, should such a volume ever appear."
games  writing  history  secrets  via:infovore 
february 2012 by kevan
The Goon Who Saved 'Manos'!
"A common refrain I've heard is that without Joel and the Bots, the movie is 'unwatchable,' but I suspect a big part of that is the bad visual presentation that the movie has always had. [...] Though it's doubtful I will change anyone's mind about Manos, I would like to send a message that every film, regardless of the place it holds in movie history, deserves a fair shot to be maintained and presented in the best way possible."
films  history  via:zarba 
february 2012 by kevan
BBC News - The road sign as design classic
"The girl in the school children crossing sign is based on a picture of [Margaret Calvert] herself. She didn't like the grammar school overtones of the earlier sign, which featured a boy wearing a cap and carrying a satchel."
signs  design  history 
december 2011 by kevan
Info Tech of Ancient Democracy
"Once all the candidates' tickets were slotted in, the archon took a quantity of small bronze balls -- some colored white, the rest black -- and poured them into the funnels at the tops of the kleroteria."
technology  history  politics 
november 2011 by kevan
Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back - Waxy.org
"On Wednesday, Google retired a longer-standing 'plus': the + operator, a standard bit of syntax used to force words and phrases to appear in search results. The operator was part of Google since its launch in 1997 and built into every search engine since."
web  hacking  history 
october 2011 by kevan
A Historic Declaration: Welcoming Apollo 11 Crew Back to Earth - CBP.gov
"On July 24, 1969, customs inspectors at Honolulu, Hawaii filled out a general declaration form for the space travelers. Recording their trip from Cape Kennedy to the moon and back to Hawaii, the form listed 'moon rock and moon dust samples' as the cargo."
space  law  history  via:newsmary 
october 2011 by kevan
Bollards of London
"Bollards have a history richer than most objects placed upon the pavement and we can easily find some dating back to the earlier part of the 19th Century."
london  history 
october 2011 by kevan
London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
"A press button route indicator was installed at Heathrow Central London Underground station 34 years ago. 'This nifty journey planner' incorporated TV screen displays and a diagrammatic route map. Only one was ever built."
tube  london  history  future  maps  transport 
august 2011 by kevan
Quantifying history: Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist
"The chart below shows a population-weighted history of the past two millennia. [...] Measured in years lived, the present century, which is only ten years old, is already "longer" than the whole of the 17th century."
history  time  via:josh 
june 2011 by kevan
Why Do We Like The Taste Of Protein? | Wired Science
"We eat calorically dense foods because we are also trying to pleasure this secondary [gastro-intestinal] pathway, which responds not to the nuances of flavor but to the brute intake of energy."
food  science  history  delusions  via:zarba 
june 2011 by kevan
GENTRY
Portraits painted onto grids of floppy disks and "a combination of obsolete media formats, making a comment on waste culture, life cycles and identity."
art  technology  history 
june 2011 by kevan
513 - Then We Take Berlin: When East Ate West | Strange Maps | Big Think
"This resulted in numerous so-called Geisterbahnhöfe (ghost stations), abandoned as the Wall went up (and projected downward) on 13th August, 1961, particularly on two U-Bahn lines and one S-Bahn line connecting different areas of West Berlin."
transport  history  maps  illusions 
may 2011 by kevan
WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts
"WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth."
weather  history 
may 2011 by kevan
Oramics on Vimeo
"A brief glimpse of Daphne Oram's pioneering and unique Oramics synthesizer, designed in 1957 after she left the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop to pursue the project."
sound  history  science  videos  via:jrb 
april 2011 by kevan
PsycNET - Tuning in to psychological change
"Linguistic analyses of the most popular songs from 1980–2007 demonstrated changes in word use that mirror psychological change. Over time, use of words related to self-focus and antisocial behavior increased, whereas words related to other-focus, social interactions, and positive emotion decreased."
music  history  psychology  language  via:bengoldacre 
april 2011 by kevan
F.I.S.T. - Titannica - the Fighting Fantasy Wiki
"F.I.S.T. (Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone) was the first interactive telephone role-playing game, also called a PBP ('Play by Phone')." From 1988.
phones  games  history 
march 2011 by kevan
A history of the world in 100 seconds
"Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history."
history  wikis  maps  via:bengoldacre 
march 2011 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Breaking camp
"Q Camp was a [1944] utopian experiment which tried to get troubled boys to operate a self-governing community in the middle of the countryside."
history  society  children  via:drjon 
march 2011 by kevan
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
"The purpose of this project is to show how the entire 172 public facing websites that are earmarked for deletion have been copied, archived, distributed and republished online - independently - for the price of a cup of Starbucks coffee (around $3.99)."
web  history  future 
february 2011 by kevan
The Flying Serpent, or Strange News Out Of Essex - Magnum Opus Press | DriveThruRPG.com
"Also a discourse of other Serpents and particularly of a Cockatrice killed at Saffron Walden."
monsters  history  roleplaying 
december 2010 by kevan
Fitzwilliam Museum - Compound Roman Utensil
"Eating implement, folding, with three-pronged fork, spatula, pick, spike and knife."
cutlery  history  metal  technology  via:zarba 
november 2010 by kevan
Automatic Fire and Burglar Alarms : Abstract : Nature
1935. "The motor drives a small dialling drum, the small metal discs on which correspond to the letters and figures of the telephone number of the nearest fire station. The station is thus called up and a gramophone record then comes into action giving, in a verbal message, the location of the fire and all essential details."
fire  crime  technology  history 
october 2010 by kevan
A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage « Making Maps: DIY Cartography
"Harvard University, that hotbed of map pin innovation, confronted head-on the 'too many pins in one place' problem that plagued the Harriman pin map. Why not, they suggested, create stacks of beads?"
maps  technology  history  via:blech 
october 2010 by kevan
Why I spoofed science journalism | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
"Have you ever wondered why the first few lines of any BBC website article are often particularly stilted and awkward? It's because thanks to the BBC's multi-platform publishing guidelines, the first few paragraphs of any news story need to be written in such a way that they can be cut and pasted into a Ceefax page."
news  television  writing  history  via:blech 
october 2010 by kevan
Cinema advertising tricks from the 1920s | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play
"Have facsimile of legal subpoena printed, summoning the public to attend the attraction. [...] 'And for failure to attend you will be guilty of not witnessing a tense drama that will entrance you with the remarkable acting.'"
advertising  history  camrad  via:holly 
september 2010 by kevan
The evolving blogosphere: An empire gives way | The Economist
"Numbering several thousand, [the blogs] had not been updated since May 2009. Like hastily abandoned cities, they mark the arrival of the Indonesian version of Facebook, the online social network."
blogs  internet  history  via:lmg 
july 2010 by kevan
Cope » Hide & Seek & Aliens Among Us
"The game was originally devised by Erick Wujcik, sometime in the early 1980s—which makes it extraordinarily early for a game of this type, predating Mafia/Werewolf by five years."
games  design  history 
july 2010 by kevan
ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network
Adverts for 1970s versions of modern gadgets. "I've learned that there is no greater design element than the anachronism. I've learned that the strongest contrast isn't spatial or tonal but historical. I've learned that there's retro, and then there's time travel."
design  history  advertising  time  via:waxy 
june 2010 by kevan
Warrick - Recover Your Lost Website
"Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files."
web  history 
march 2010 by kevan
Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater | COSMOS magazine
"Duane Hamacher, an astrophysicist studying Aboriginal astronomy at Sydney's Macquarie University, used Google Maps to search for the signs of impact craters in areas related to Aboriginal stories of stars or stones hitting the ground."
maps  history  australia  space  via:duncan 
january 2010 by kevan
Spillway: London in 2010
Observer article from 1990. "Bankside power station has been converted into a museum, although here it's the 'Thatcher Museum of Commerce'."
london  future  history  architecture 
december 2009 by kevan
London's Treasure Hunt Riots | Paul Slade - Journalist
The rise and fall of proto-ARGs from 1904, with clues hidden in detective fiction. "Before he could secure his prize, Randall had to narrow down the possible cities to Newcastle and Carlisle, [...] find a district of Newcastle that sounded a bit like 'Edward Green' and realise that the serial number Meggs had overheard must be attached to a lamp post."
games  args  pervasive  history  london  secrets  money  news  via:holly 
november 2009 by kevan
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE
"MENACE is a machine that plays noughts and crosses, built out of 304 matchboxes." [...] "When it is MENACE's turn to play, the operator simply selects the matchbox corresponding to the current state of play, shakes it, and opens it to see which move has been chosen."
games  computers  history 
november 2009 by kevan
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
"The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves. By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis." [...] "No matter what was going to happen, there still would be revenge. Those who attack us will be punished."
war  apocalypse  technology  russia  history  politics  weapons  via:lmg 
november 2009 by kevan
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
"The program downloads and parses a part of the text of a recent best-selling book. The algorithm eliminates all insignificant words like 'I', 'and', 'to', 'for', 'the', etc. The remaining words and their combinations are the keywords for the patent drawings."
art  emergence  books  history  via:zarba 
september 2009 by kevan
Time to follow Samuel Pepys (Phil Gyford’s website)
"If you’re ever going to follow Samuel Pepys on Twitter then you should start before tomorrow. That’s Wednesday 2nd September 2009. Or Sunday 2nd September 1666… the day the Great Fire of London began, and Pepys will be 'live tweeting' the event as it happened."
twitter  history  fire  london 
september 2009 by kevan
Patent Models Record Inventions in Miniature | Wired Science | Wired.com
"From 1790 until 1870, U.S. patent law required inventors to submit actual physical models of their novel machines along with their drawings and descriptions." [...] "not more than twelve inches square [...] neatly made."
history  design  via:zarba 
july 2009 by kevan
Grumpy Gamer - Stuff and Things and Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's commentary on a Monkey Island playthrough, 20 years on. "OK, I'm going to admit that I was completely stumped by the grog puzzle. [...] I found several puzzles would give me pause because I'd remember some previous unimplemented version of them and it would throw me off track."
games  if  history  nostalgia  design  via:waxy 
june 2009 by kevan
London's magical history uncorked from 'witch bottle' - New Scientist
"The bottle also contained bent nails and pins, a nail-pierced leather 'heart', fingernail clippings, navel fluff and hair. The presence of iron sulphide in the mixture also suggests that sulphur or brimstone had been added."
magic  history  hair  via:amuchmoreexotic 
june 2009 by kevan
Ian Bogost - A Television Simulator
"Here you see not only how much more realistic the car sprite would have appeared on a [1970s] television, but also how the multiple colored lines on the horizon would have blended with one another, creating a more credible sunset."
games  emulation  history  television  via:waxy 
april 2009 by kevan
Online gaming the Victorian way - science-in-society - 17 April 2009 - New Scientist
"Telegraphed billiards matches used a gridded table that enabled players to cable the positions of the balls, but the system proved frustratingly slow."
games  history 
april 2009 by kevan
4chan Memes, circa 1889 / taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog
"When a disputant was desirous of throwing a doubt upon the veracity of his opponent, and getting summarily rid of an argument which he could not overturn, he uttered the word Quoz, with a contemptuous curl of his lip, and an impatient shrug of his shoulders."
language  history  via:waxy 
march 2009 by kevan
Internet Archive: Details: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
The first thirty years' worth of ISIHAC, apparently in their entirety, at archive.org.
mp3s  radio  comedy  history  via:mcios 
march 2009 by kevan
Robot Messenger Displays Person-to-Person Notes In Public
"The user walks up on a small platform in front of the machine, writes a brief message on a continuous strip of paper and drops a coin in the slot. The inscription moves up behind a glass panel where it remains in public view for at least two hours so that the person for whom it is intended may have sufficient time to observe the note at the appointed place."
technology  paper  history  communication  via:warrenellis 
february 2009 by kevan
English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did [their] job for some time, but after some time they collapsed too." They were looted for scrap metal, including reactor shielding.
architecture  history  russia  pollution  dereliction  photos  via:warrenellis 
january 2009 by kevan
Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory
"Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?"
fiction  history  time 
january 2009 by kevan
Depression 2009: What would it look like? - The Boston Globe
"In many ways, though, today's depression would not look like the last one because it would not look like much at all." [...] "The New Depression would be largely invisible because people would experience loss privately, not publicly."
society  money  future  history 
november 2008 by kevan
314 - Watch the Road: World’s Earliest SatNav << Strange Maps
"The [Routefinder] consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ’scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking."
maps  travel  history  technology  paper  via:waxy 
october 2008 by kevan
Serena Korda | Transport for London
"Working with groups and organisations, Korda has developed a series of crosswords that offer an alternative guide to Stanmore and reveal something of the knowledge, stories and specialisms of those encountered."
crosswords  history  london 
july 2008 by kevan
Hardcore Gaming 101: Segagaga
A 2001 Sega game about the fall of Sega. "After defeating an enemy, there's a chance that they'll stick around and negotiate for a job. You have 10 seconds to answer a rapid fire series of questions, most of which includes salary offers."
games  history  meta  via:venusberg 
july 2008 by kevan
One Post Wonder
"A collection of amazing blogs that have one post."
blogs  history  via:lmg 
july 2008 by kevan
Pasta&Vinegar » information overload in 1613
"One of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the world."
books  history  via:currybet 
june 2008 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Oldest' computer music unveiled
From 1951. "During the session, the temperamental [Ferranti Mark 1] managed to work its way through Baa Baa Black Sheep, God Save the King and part of In the Mood."
computers  music  sound  history 
june 2008 by kevan
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
"In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or 'electric telescopes,' as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files."
computers  web  history  technology  paper  via:waxy 
june 2008 by kevan
Whispers of War - The British World War II rumour campaign by Lee Richards
"The rumour he submitted to the UPC was sent for clearance to the Inter-Services Security Board (ISSB) who were responsible for clearing rumours and had power of veto over any of a military nature which might inadvertently be a real security risk."
war  history  lies  illusions  psychology  memetics 
april 2008 by kevan
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." Including a playable snippet of a Guide sequel written, badly, by Michael Bywater.
if  history  games  business 
april 2008 by kevan
Al Jaffee - Mad magazine - Comics - Art - New York Times
"I have this idea, I think it’s a funny idea, but I know you’re not going to buy it. But I’m going to show it to you anyway. And you’re not going to buy it because it mutilates the magazine."
interviews  art  comics  history  via:waxy 
march 2008 by kevan
Take a walk in the park with Joseph Paxton
"But just imagine if Joseph Paxton was magically transported back from the past, and you could walk through [Crystal Palace] park with him. Wouldn't it be interesting to talk to him about his park? What would he think?"
history  architecture 
march 2008 by kevan
Civic Heraldry of England and Wales - Greater London
"The ancient ship with its dragon's head prow points to some notable expedition by sea which is credited with having sailed up the Thames as far as Putney."
london  design  history 
march 2008 by kevan
The First IBM PC - August 13, 1981
"I.B.M. is also allowing anyone else who wants to do so to write programs for the I.B.M. machine, which the company would evaluate. If the programs were accepted for marketing, the writer would be paid a royalty on sales of the program."
computers  history  via:leonard 
february 2008 by kevan
The Joy of Silly - New York Times
"[Modern] toys, for all their technological sophistication, tended to lay down the rules. [...] A Hula Hoop lets you make up your own dance; Dance Dance Revolution gives you the steps. A guitar lets you create; Guitar Hero 'is really well defined'."
games  toys  design  history 
january 2008 by kevan
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier - Alan Moore,Kevin O'Neill
Disappointing. After setting up the 1950s as a much better context than expected, it sprawls too far into the past, stretching a thin plot and overpopulating it for the sake of it. And the documents are pretty meagre parodies.
booklog  comics  books  secrets  history 
january 2008 by kevan
Game Innovation Database
Browsable history of videogame ludemes and innovations, explored through a somewhat unusable Flash interface.
games  design  history  technology  via:waxy 
january 2008 by kevan
WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
"This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin's letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written."
war  history  weblogs  via:lmg 
january 2008 by kevan
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources: Dymaxion Chronofile
"The Chronofile was a vast scrapbook that included copies of all [Fuller's] incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes and sketches, and even dry cleaning bills. [The] Chronofile was bound into handsome leather-backed volumes."
writing  history  paper 
december 2007 by kevan
Helvetica (2006)
Engaging history of the typeface; its rise and the backlash against it, all shown against the backdrop of Helvetica's global omnipresence in urban signage. No narrator, just lots of genuinely enthusiastic or angry type designers.
filmlog  4stars  fonts  design  history  art 
december 2007 by kevan
Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360)
A clean hybrid of Prince of Persia and GTA, with a great, flowing sense of parkour across the 12th century rooftops of Damascus and Jerusalem. Slightly thin missions so far, and the meta-plot seems unwisely bolted on, but it's still exhilarating to play.
gamelog  4stars  death  secrets  history  weapons  war  cities  architecture 
november 2007 by kevan
OFF THE TELLY: Light Entertainment/The Game Still Goes On
"On 23 October 1996 the game began. Runners were released from a television studio in West London, with Trackers in hot pursuit. Seven days later, at 8.30pm, the first episode of Wanted went live on Channel 4."
games  television  history  surveillance  cheating  via:diamond 
november 2007 by kevan
Chris O'Leary - Forgotten Futures
"The top 100 terms for each year were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, and mapped onto a grid. Holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. For example, 'war' is the biggest hole in 1945."
art  future  history  libraries  plastic  via:infosthetics 
september 2007 by kevan
graffiti archaeology
"A project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years."
graffiti  history 
september 2007 by kevan
The Search for the Giant Squid - Richard Ellis
The past eight years have done a lot to dent the mythical status of the living giant squid, but this still stands up as a solid history of all sightings and contexts. It trawls in some tenuous sea monsters as potential suspects, but they're all good.
booklog  squid  history  mysteries  via:mattgreen 
september 2007 by kevan
Jodrell Bank Telescope To Become Largest Cinema Screen On The Planet
"During the show, the huge dish of the telescope will act as a giant video screen displaying images of early space exploration, astronomy, engineering, the history and future of radio astronomy and the construction of the Lovell telescope itself."
space  history  films  via:foe 
august 2007 by kevan
RevolutionSF - Back Lots of the Lost: The Implausibility of the Cliched "Lost World"
"If dinosaurs live in the Congo today, they had to have migrated there from somewhere else, and again, no definitive dinosaur bones or other remains have been discovered past the K-T boundary."
dinosaurs  history  secrets  evolution  world  via:leonard 
august 2007 by kevan
Digital Humanities Quarterly: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky
Revisiting the caves. "Instead of the horizontal 3x3 horizontal grate described in 'Adventure', the Bedquilt entrance to Colossal Cave is now protected by a vertical gate, which in this photograph lies open on the ground (away from the camera)."
if  history  stone  via:zarba 
august 2007 by kevan
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