Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for espionage. Note accompanying photo–that’s what makes the article for me.
Entries from July 2007
Secret Squirrel
July 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Asides · Squirrels · War and Peace
Madness and Civilization III
July 9th, 2007 · 15 Comments
How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.
Tags: Alternate History · Favorites · Games and Gaming · History@Play · Teaching · Technology
On the Road Again
July 4th, 2007 · No Comments
It must be summer: I’m resurrecting my old roadtrip blog.
Robots in Disguise
July 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Slate article on “why the 1986 Transformers movie was better than Michael Bay’s” contains a marvelous quote from Orson Welles, who voiced the planet-eating planet Unicron (typecasting?) five days before his death: “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed.”
Agent Crank
July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Takes one to know one? Declassified CIA files (via Wired) on various “cranks, nuts, and screwballs.”
Smells Like Treason
July 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
An obscure little weblog called Boing Boing links to the Stasi’s museum of traitorous smells.
Tags: Asides
History Carnival 54
July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
History Carnival #54 is up at Historianness and Bad History Carnival #15 is up at, well, the Bad History Carnival site.
Tags: Asides
Museum of Bad Album Covers
July 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Via The Skwib, though you should not take that acknowledgment as indication that I am grateful to Mark for learning about this site.