Early Modern Notes

What I’ve been reading online lately…

The Magnificent, the Merry and the Mundane: The Display Windows of the Eaton’s Department Store
  an online exhibit from Canada chronicling the impact of large display windows on shopping

Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking
  not the Advertising Century's finest moments?

400 years of the telescope
  a website to commemorate the invention of the telescope

Ad Age Advertising Century
  100 years of American advertising

The British Cartoon Archive
  new website for British political and social cartoons from the University of Kent

Interactive – the influenza pandemic of 1918
  The unfolding pandemic in contemporary sources, from The Guardian

Fucking hackers.

Or, more accurately, “Noted ages ago (was it really less than 2 weeks?) after That Election and sadly neglected in my drafts folder”…

I Have Until January 20!
  Rob MacDougall rounds up some 'good crazy' responses to That One's election

Obama’s Disastrous Gaffe-Laden Press Conference
  Jon Swift is really, really, really enjoying himself this week

On centrism
  the 'centre' can shift: for real change, it has to…

Nominations for The Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging are open until the end of November.

The award categories are: Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, Best Writer.

Forgetful types may find the following resources useful for memory jogging:

Cliopatria’s History Blogroll
The History Carnival Archive

Final selections will be made by judging panels of history bloggers and announced at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in early January.

Niche interest? Fetish? Perversion? Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms.

Stop Worrying About Obama Losing Already
  because he's going to win. *bites nails, sacrifices another chicken, does rain dance*

OMG!!! Exclusive!!!! Must Credit LGM!!!
  "If Obama were some sort of secret, DFH terrorist front candidate, who exactly would he be signaling with this logo? Is America filled with Weatherman sleeper cells, just waiting for a sign of the revolution?"

Philosophy in the news ….
  more on the Bill Ayers ghostwriting scandal! (not)

Malcom X II and the Fuschia Fascists
  is it satire? is it lunacy? who can tell any more?

More seriously: of course it’s not over until it’s over. But think about these polling numbers.

2 November 2004: RCP Electoral College Count: Bush 227 – Kerry 203 – toss-up 108. (270 EC votes needed to win: result on 4 November: Bush 286, Kerry 252.)

3 November 2008: RCP Electoral College Count: Obama 278 – McCain 132 – toss-up 128.

This is 1997, not 1992. (Except I don’t want to push the 1997 analogy because we all know how that turned out…)

This story is going around, but I’ll repeat it just for the fun of it:

The Welsh actually means: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.

Oops.