Gundo - Visualize your Vim Undo Tree
april 2011 by mottram
nnoremap <F5> :GundoToggle<CR>
plugins
vim
history
undo
april 2011 by mottram
World Wide Web
december 2010 by mottram
"CERN, a European center for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, has developed an intriguing new tool for managing the cornucopia of information linked to the Internet. The World-Wide Web (W3), a global hypertext system, provides links between a phrase in one document and related information elsewhere... Those on the Internet can try out W3 for themselves. Telnet to: info.cern.ch."
history
1990s
web
december 2010 by mottram
Panic - Extras - The True Story of Audion
april 2010 by mottram
The Transmit 4 release reminded me of Audion...
apple
history
osx
mac
panic
april 2010 by mottram
Google - 2001
october 2008 by mottram
"In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001." It's actually sort of spooky.
google
history
web
october 2008 by mottram
PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds | News - Security - CNET News
september 2008 by mottram
"A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. "
bletchley
history
september 2008 by mottram
BBC - Radio 4 - Parkmasters
august 2008 by mottram
Nice series on public parks.
parks
public
history
design
august 2008 by mottram
An excerpt from Surf Culture The Art History of Surfing - CaliforniaAuthors
august 2008 by mottram
I didn't know Gidget was a real person.
surf
1950s
1960s
history
august 2008 by mottram
Bletchley Park faces bleak future - at ZDNet.co.uk
may 2008 by mottram
This is disgraceful - I can't believe Bletchley Park doesn't qualify for Lottery or state funding. It's where WWII was won, for goodness' sake (well, kind of).
wwii
bletchley
turing
cryptography
history
uk
may 2008 by mottram
The Medical Messiahs
march 2008 by mottram
"The 1966 edition of this book described the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s."
medicine
science
quacks
history
march 2008 by mottram
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
august 2007 by mottram
A sort of beginner's guide, nicely presented on a timeline.
duchamp
art
history
august 2007 by mottram
Sculley's Dream: The Story Behind the Newton
april 2007 by mottram
According to this, the Newton's handwriting recognition software was handed to them by an anonymous Russian. WTF?
newton
apple
history
april 2007 by mottram
Blast from the Past: Apple Ships OS 8 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
april 2007 by mottram
I remember being totally blown away by OS 8 when it was installed in the University newspaper office.
apple
os8
os
mac
history
april 2007 by mottram
Scotland's Past - The Darien Scheme
february 2007 by mottram
Disastrous colonial enterprise.
scotland
history
twobook
colonialism
february 2007 by mottram
BibliOdyssey's bookmarks on del.icio.us
december 2006 by mottram
Annotated archives of BibliOdyssey.
bibliodyssey
occult
images
science
history
december 2006 by mottram
artforum.com / Modernism
september 2006 by mottram
"IMAGINE AN ART EXHIBITION called "Modernism" focusing on the years 1914 to 1939. Sounds unlikely, doesn't it?"
modernism
art
history
september 2006 by mottram
Glaswegians
july 2006 by mottram
"This is the online edition of the Glaswegians Photo Archive. You will find a selection of images from 30,000 photographs taken between 1989 and 1992." - amazing.
glasgow
photography
history
culture
july 2006 by mottram
Camp Records
february 2006 by mottram
"Almost nothing is known about the mysterious 60's record label Camp Records. They released an album and 10 45 rpm records of gay parody songs, most done with effeminate voices. I believe they were issued in the early 60's, as they all appeared in an ad i
queer
gay
history
culture
february 2006 by mottram
Brownlow's and Mollo's Nazi Britain | MetaFilter
february 2006 by mottram
Links on 'How It Happened Here', a film imagining a Nazi occupation of the UK.
nazi
history
film
whatif
cinema
february 2006 by mottram
3quarksdaily: I have a dream
january 2006 by mottram
The full text of Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, delivered on August 28th, 1963.
history
text
speeches
rhetoric
mlk
1960s
january 2006 by mottram
The Thirteenth Tribe
january 2006 by mottram
Arthur Koestler's discredited theory of Ashkenazim accestry.
genetics
history
ashkenazim
jews
koestler
january 2006 by mottram
Clean Slate » The Victorian Internet
january 2006 by mottram
They had undersea telegraph cables running from Australia to the UK via India. Bloody hell.
internet
history
telegraph
victorian
engineering
january 2006 by mottram
tinfoil.com - Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders
january 2006 by mottram
"Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds"
music
history
audio
media
archive
recording
sound
january 2006 by mottram
New York Daily News - Big Town - Big Town Songbook: Make 'em sing
november 2005 by mottram
"Album covers had to be invented. This was a task that largely fell to a Brooklyn kid named Alex Steinweiss."
music
art
design
history
november 2005 by mottram
browseback: Visual Web History You Can Search
november 2005 by mottram
Browse your browsing history through a pretty visualisation thingy. Nice, but probably not worth the money.
web
history
browser
osx
november 2005 by mottram
village voice > specials > Voice 50th Anniversary by John Wilcock
october 2005 by mottram
"The camera makes the movie: whatever happens, planned or not, is the film."
vintage
past
history
film
making
warhol
art
nyc
1960s
villagevoice
journalism
october 2005 by mottram
The National Archives | Research, education & online exhibitions | Exhibitions | Public Information Films
october 2005 by mottram
"For the first time on The National Archives' website you can view complete public information films from the 20th Century."
movies
history
education
library
*
october 2005 by mottram
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