Early Modern Notes

One day I will write one of them proper post thingies…

Hubris and Hermeneutics
  Janice Liedl muses on the problems of ’seeing the past on its own terms’

Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
  a recent conversation in JAH between historians considering the progress and future of digital history (seems to be open access… or perhaps not)

Bad Science: Don’t let facts spoil a good story
  Ben Goldacre on the misrepresentation of academic research by journalists. sometimes you just think, we're doomed…

Misery Loves Democrats
  pigs 'n' lipstick 'n' stuff

The Wonderbra ad and strict new advertising guidelines
  Charlie Brooker: "Only one thing for it: we're all going to have masturbate our way back to sanity together. Right, readers? Three … two … one … go!"

The scientist who started the MMR hoax faces the GMC - but who will hold the media to account? A fine piece by Ben Goldacre - “in MMR, journalists and editors have constructed their greatest hoax to date, and finally demonstrated that they can pose a serious risk to public health”

History is to blame - the life and times of Samuel Pepys

What I’ve been reading online lately…

University student ‘escape goats’ get caught by academics
  i know, we shouldn't laugh at students really. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Comforting butternut squash and red lentil dal
  comfort food isn't supposed to be this healthy…

on bad citation « a historian’s craft
  the difference a full stop makes…

Behind the Curtain « The Edge of the American West
  The Wizard of Oz, history, audiences and politics

Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris
  Photoshop, Iranian missiles and fakery

Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008
  Lisa Spiro's presentation on digital humanities

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Nazis do The Lambeth Walk
  

Back to the Futura
  the Obama poster and German modernist art

Why science writing is hard — Andrew Sullivan (and surrogates) illustrate
  "Just because a press release or a paper says something doesn’t mean you can suspend your bull-shit sensor."

Stranger Fruit: The Value of History of Science to Science Education
  how historians can contribute to better understanding of science

How to get a grant from NEH
  good advice on grant proposals (not just to NEH)

“I do not think about things I don’t think about.” « The Edge of the American West
  the 'Monkey' trial

Peter Burke, “Context in Context” « The Long Eighteenth
  On contextualising the idea of 'context'

What I’ve been reading online lately…

A Don’s Life - Hadrian — some myths busted
  Mary Beard has some more reflections on Hadrian

A very modern emperor
  Mary Beard on Hadrian

The Declaration of Sentiments at 160
  Hugo Schwyzer on a key moment in feminist history

invisibl olimpiks
  10/10

The Green Aesthetic
  communicating 'greenness' to consumers

(Sorry about the lack of posting lately. Events beyond my control getting in the way.)

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Flowchart of the week
  what to do with that idea

2b or not 2b?
  david crystal on txtg

To an unreasonable request.

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Mmm… Marginalia: The Games Medievals Play ~ Got Medieval
  more medieval marginalia

Poor decision on an epic scale in
  …

Ooops — Missed Anniversary: Darwin/Wallace edition
  Thomas Levenson on the 150th anniversary

History Carnival 66
  join the debates!

Mind the gap: did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years?
  … short answer: no

ExpoMuseum
  history of world fairs and exhibitions since 1850

What I’ve been reading online lately…

The Web Time Forgot
  Paul Otlet's Mundaneum

Critics choose their most-loathed books
  writers find the words to completely and utterly trash books they hate

How Darwin won the evolution race
  Darwin and Wallace and the Origin of Species

Pharyngula gets email
  from an utter fundie loony. freaking hilarious

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Carnivalesque XL
  the 40th Carnivalesque (early modern edition) at jliedl.ca

The Tudor delusion
  names and anachronisms

Kunstpedia
  "the knowledgebase on fine- and decorative arts" (bilingual English and Dutch)

Everyone’s a historian now
  digital archives and 'crowdsourcing' are changing historical research

Thnkx, kid
  but not right now…

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Hearty mushroom soup recipe
  liked this one

Lentils with chorizo & red wine recipe
  mmmmmmmmmm….

Medieval Parking Fines
  a not entirely idiotic analogous use of 'medieval' in the news? Got Medieval is stunned.

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008
  a brilliant way to visualise changing box office patterns

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Charles Tilly, May 20, 1929 – April 29, 2008
  personal memories of Charles Tilly

Old Bailey opens its unseen files
  nice feature on the project in The Observer

Observer Food Monthly April 2008
  a special anniversary edtion: loadsa Nigel Slater recipes

the moment cat lost…
  uh-oh

Hitler diaries scandal: ‘We’d printed the scoop of the century, then it turned to dust’
  on the 25th anniversary of the Hitler Diaries, the inside story

The Pirate Problem
  dan cohen on historians' reactions to digital history

What I’ve been reading online lately…

A rogue copy editor’s manifesto
  because language belongs to the people who use it. amen.

The 50 Greatest Crime Writers
  according to The Times, anyway… at least, some of the articles are worth reading

Successful Test cricketers live for longer
  according to the latest research…

Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part Two) - Errol Morris
  what we see and don’t see

What I’ve been reading online lately…

omg a capshun!
  bonus meta lolcats!

Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part One) - Errol Morris
  illusions and deceptions in documentary reconstructions

Rise of the Digital NEH
  overview of the current state of digital humanities

What I’ve been reading online lately…

Day 43. Still no signs of rescue.
  lolcat of the week. iz funny.

A Viper Created With Recycled Keyboards
  an awesome sculpture

Deliberate Distortion
  from the Daily Mail? Shurely not!

Outwith
  Language Log on a rather wonderful word my Scottish friends taught me…

Yahoo! Movies Presents: The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies
  the ones that make your history teachers cry (or cackle hysterically)

No, I haven’t been drunk all week. Just a bit busy to post.

12th Military History Carnival
  Rounding up recent military history blogging.

Welcome, BoingBoingers. Here, have a monkey! (Take two, they’re small.)
  Medieval monkeys at Got Medieval

50 Miles Per Burrito: Is the Body the Most Efficient Vehicle?
  Not really into burritos, but it's nice to know that my bike ride to work is burning plenty of calories…

Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of ‘Doktor’ Verboten
  Americans with PhDs beware…

What I’ve been reading online lately: fakes, race, cats and typewriters…

I’m Shocked, Shocked To Find that Some Memoirs Are Fake
  Tim Burke wonders "why it is that socially privileged, basically comfortable, largely white readers have such an avid taste for tedious stories of suffering and loss whose only value is their naive claim to be literally true"

Echoes of Enoch Powell
  On the BBC's documentary about Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech: "a disgracefully misleading, cowardly, manipulative and politically irresponsible programme"

I is cuter…
  lolcat for the week

Typology: a phenomenology of early typewriters
  

What I’ve been reading online lately: history, culture, news, cats…

Dunno what happnd
  never touched it!

Lying feminist ideologues wreck English, says idiot Yale prof
  Glorious rant from Language Log

Whither the Chainmail Bikini?
  Were Viking women sexy?

The Charms of Wikipedia
  Cream rises or shit floats?

What I’ve been reading online lately: history, news, food, fun…

Head over heels
  A look at screwball comedy and women, to mark the BFI’s new season

The root master
  Yummy root veg recipe ideas from Nigel Slater

History Carnival 62
  And the latest History Carnival is up!

This morning I cut my finger on a piece of toast.

It still stings. It’s not funny.

[Update: it’s stopped stinging today. You can laugh now. Because, really, injuring yourself with a bit of toast? How daft is that?!)]