June 23, 1972 the day I left to join the Army. Almost didn't make it on account of Hurricane Agnes. So today I have been retired from the Army two years longer than I was in....
Tag: history
Arthuriana, Studies on Early Medieval History & Legend
Arthuriana, Studies on Early Medieval History & Legend Welcome to Arthuriana. This is the personal academic website of Dr Thomas Green, which I have maintained since 1998. I am currently engaged in research at the University of Oxford; my principal research interests lie in the history, archaeology, place-names and literature of early medieval Britain. I have published … Continue reading Arthuriana, Studies on Early Medieval History & Legend
WW I in Photos
WW I in Photos As countries caught up in the war sent soldiers to the front lines, they also built support behind the lines and at home, with women taking many roles. As villages became battlefields, refugees were scattered across Europe.
A Portrait of Jesus
A Portrait of Jesus You are invited to join in this exploration of Marcus Borg’s portrait of Jesus and what it can mean for Christian life and faith.
Quiet BASIC
BASIC on the Web... Back in the day (80's & 90's) every computer came with the BASIC programming language. Nothing like what we have today but I had fun with it. I just found this on the web so anyone with a nostalgia for BASIC can play with it again. So if you can't waste … Continue reading Quiet BASIC
TED Talk | William Noel | Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes….
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others. http://goo.gl/ISx0Bi
Distractions distractions
Amusing ourselves to death | Very scary and oh so true..... Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer
The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could own and operate and keep in their homes, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush. After building his Differential Analyzer at MIT and helping to create the military-industrial-academic triangle, he wrote an essay for the July 1945 … Continue reading The Culture That Gave Birth to the Personal Computer
Military History….
U.S. Army Center for Military History http://goo.gl/NrZDB
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute, pictures and commentary from museums, historic sites etc.....http://goo.gl/LehgD Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.
Some pics I took in Germany circa early 1980’s
I was looking thru some old stuff I had in various places on the web and found these pics from Bad Toelz and Berlin circa early 1980’s……
Computer History Museum
This Old Computer..... Spend a day at the Computer History Museum. Find out why computer history is 2000 years old. Learn about computer history’s game-changers in our multimedia exhibitions. Play a game of Pong or Spacewar!
Chaucer’s blog
Very cool ! Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog.
Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls digitized and on the web for all to see !
Reading update…..
43% through Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? (Kindle Single) by Rheingold, Howard on Kindle for Android! http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid/
Hindenburg 75th Anniversary
75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg Interesting pics of the airship. Looks so out of place to see the swastika but we were not yet at war with Germany....
Some links…..
Here's a couple of misc links for your browsing pleasure..... trAce Archive | Ten years of writing on, about, and via the internet, collected together in a single searchable resource..... http://www.dejavu.org/ | emulates ancient web browsers....
Steve Jobs speech 1983
Steve Jobs speech 1983.....
Information decay…..
Information decay | most of the information linked to in Twitter and other social sites disappears within a year......
Cybersociology Magazine
Cybersociology Magazine | Cybersociology Magazine was launched on 10 October 1997 as a forum for the cross-disciplinary academic discussion of life online. It ran for approximately two years, until 01 September 1999, and seven web based issues were published......
