February 1, 2002 – 12:00 am
May 29th, 2003 is the 50th anniversary of Tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s summiting Everest. The government of Nepal is sponsoring a Jubilee year celebration.
January 21, 2002 – 12:00 am
From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an annual assement of the state of civil rights for The Nation. Today, the magazine featured this column where he discusses the progress made in Alabama:
Are demonstrations of any use, some ask, when resistance is so unyielding? Would the slower processes of legislation and law enforcement [...]
January 1, 2002 – 12:00 am
Before the Venetian, Steve Winn wanted to dig canals into Fremont Street, and fill them with contaminated groundwater. During the Cold War, the Las Vegas City Council wanted a giant fallout shelter to hold their post-holocaust meetings. Las Vegas Life has a short article on other failed plans in the place that was almost renamed [...]
January 1, 2002 – 12:00 am
Deanna DeMatteo stuffed her History of the Las Vegas Strip Site full of trivia, history, photos and a few opinions (I don’t think she likes unions). To understand who owned which resort, how they are related, and what had been demolished to make way for the current mega-casino, this is the site.
She has some great [...]
November 23, 2001 – 12:00 am
Eileen Gunn produced a Historical Suppliment to Gibson and Sterling’s The Difference Engine intended to amplify the enjoyment and understanding of said text.
November 21, 2001 – 12:00 am
Eileen Gunn’s The Infinite Matrix is back online! Terry Bisson’s doing a daily humour column.
11.21.2113“Cats on 42nd St.” closes, ending hundred-one year run. All finale ticket holders automatically entered in Iroquois Lottery.
October 29, 2001 – 12:00 am
The whump.com homepage from 1997.
October 7, 2001 – 12:00 am
I keep hearing the term “asymmetric warfare” in the press, and on the lips of pundits. From the US Army journal “Parameters” comes this analysis:
The term du jour for future military operations is “asymmetric warfare”; ironically, it’s a concept as old as warfare itself. For centuries, even millennia, weaker opponents have sought to neutralize their [...]
September 27, 2001 – 12:00 am
Phil Agre collected hundreds of URLs related to the WTC/Pentagon attacks. All the URLs are now archived in one place.
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September 19, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via Scripting News ] Caleb Carr (The Alienist) talks about the War of 1812 in relation to the WTC Attack. The British burnt down the Congress and the White House, massacred civilians, and did other things we’d call Terror.
Aaron of aaronland.net says: “This is simply wrong. The War of 1812 was started, as a [...]
September 17, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via the Muted Horn ] A 1995 article from the U. S. Army journal Parameters on the history of the art of naming military operations from WW I to the present day.
For example, the name for the US Marine operation to aid victims of the 1991 typhoon which devastated Bangladesh was originally Operation [...]
September 15, 2001 – 12:00 am
An article from Janes’ Defense Weekly profiles the recent history of the Western powers in Afghanistan.
The US-led ëproxy warí model was based on the premise that Islamists made good anti-Communist allies. The plan was diabolically simple: to hire, train and control motivated Islamic mercenaries. The trainers were mainly from Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, [...]
August 23, 2001 – 12:00 am
I don’t know why Userland indexed this as a potential hit when I was looking up info on copying large tables in Frontier, but it’s too good to be left unblogged. Here is the History of the World as seen by Slashdot.
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks [...]
I watched “Idi i smotri (Come and See)” on my friend Freddie’s recommendation. It was odd to be watching a 1985 Soviet film about the harrowing experiences of Belorusian youth fighting the Germans during WWII on the 4th of July, However I’ve discharged my patriotic duty to see political satire earlier in the afternoon. There [...]
[ via Librarian.net ] Ghost in the Machine Day is not about Kostler, The Police, or soft-core anime pR0n. It is “the day in the Luddite Calendar that celebrates the potential for error that is innate in every machine… .”
Etaoin Shrdlu died for your typos.
