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Wikipedia, I love you. Also, one inventor so killed was a Thomas Midgley, Jr., who managed to invent both leaded petrol and CFCs. (Although the effects … gulfstream/2642
“The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil.” The surprising story of an Iraqi who moved to Norway and apparently became instrumental in establishing the … gulfstream/2640
Video of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller demonstrating how Sullivan taught Keller to speak. gulfstream/2635
There’s an emulator for the hardware used on the Apollo missions! This is the gentle introduction. gulfstream/2633
One the first use of anesthetic in an operating room, and the the moral and medical environment of the time: “Before 1846, the vast majority of religious … gulfstream/2623
Errol Morris talks to press photographers about their favourite pictures of George Bush. gulfstream/2594
Moderately interesting article on the decline of the U.S. Air Force due to neglect brought on by at least 30 years of inferior competition. (“The last … gulfstream/2590
Interview with Steven Soderbergh. Defending Che: “The people that are anti-Che just see it as a commercial for him. Some of them can’t really get … gulfstream/2578
US Presidents’ approval ratings over time. gulfstream/2576
Nice step-by-step views of the components of the Internation Space Station in chronological order. gulfstream/2571
Interview with the “notorious lawyer” Jacques Vergès, defender of war criminals. “A doctor must provide help, but as an attorney, you are not obligated … gulfstream/2558
Cartoon illustrating one difference between the 43 Presidents of the United States that have already had a go, and the 44th. gulfstream/2546
Many unexploded WWII bombs still in Germany: “In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions … gulfstream/2534
The Long Now Foundation’s modern-day Rosetta Stone: Genesis 1-3 in 1,500 different languages, plus associated information etched into a 3 inch disc, … gulfstream/2498
Excellent compendium of great Olympic moments on YouTube. (The uneven bars routines are particularly interesting.) gulfstream/2496
The Olympic torch, from 1936 to 2008, and some background to each of the designs. gulfstream/2487
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Dresden - Do Germans have a right to mourn their war dead? By Carly Berwick
The History Channel - Great Speeches: Politics & Government
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
The Secret Origin of Windows
About how the first few versions of Windows came to be.
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
Loving profile of Steve Jobs: "But all of that’s ok. Because without Steve Jobs’ Apple the world would be a less colorful place. The man is a living legend and deserves his place in history. This Thanksgiving, Steve Jobs is one of the things that I’m thankful for. And I bet you are too."
Pobediteli
Military history of Russia in WWII, via Flash movie.
Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five
"I'm told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than "missing in action." Chances are that you also failed to receive any of the letters I wrote from Germany. That leaves me a lot of explaining to do -- in precis:"
Norman Rockwell’s Photo Realism | PDN Photo of the Day
Norman Rockwell's painting were based on photos that he directed himself.
erik’s weblog » Blog Archive » Closure
Why Google's Closure is so named: "Closure was an attempt to bring a closure to this mess. The name is also a play on the programming language feature as well as the desire to make our js library be a closure of all the existing js code at Google."
Why do we have an IMG element?
Interesting and illuminating early history of the <img> element. (Only slightly annoying, unlike most of Mark Pilgrim's pieces!)
Living on $500,000 a Year
How F. Scott Fitzgerald lived: "What can be learned from Fitzgerald’s tax returns? To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue. Fitzgerald was always trying to follow conservative financial principles."
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell
A few notes on the strange history of timezones across the world, as told by comments in the olson timezone database.
Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
10 Years of Virtual Machine Performance (Semi) Demystified
Small history of virtual machine performance--author alleges that most of the earlier bottlenecks have now been removed, mostly via the hardware become more virtualization-aware.
The Circular Letter of Credit
page explaining letters of credit, the means by which travellers were able to withdraw money in foreign countries before the advent of credit cards and atms, etc. the chief means of forgery detections seems to have been the signature.
What the Internet knows about you
using the :visited selector to figure out what site a user has visited
The Tennis Fashion Hall of Fame (and Shame) - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com
Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems
"The server would use neither a persistent connection nor a store-and-forward model, thus giving it all the worst features of both telnet and e-mail."
Charlie's Diary: How I got here in the end, part five: "things can only get better!"
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot
Eric Vasilik: Code Karma
why innerHTML doesn't work with table elements in ie
File:Los Angeles Times front page 6 August 1945.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The death of a test pilot shared the front page with the bombing of hiroshima!
Unexploded Bombs in Germany: The Lethal Legacy of World War II - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
"In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered each year."
Versionista: Track changes to any Web site
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
"And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded."
Robert A. Caro - Lyndon Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland' - July 23, 2008 - The New York Sun
Cabinet Magazine Online - Fragments from a History of Ruin
"Romanticism turns the ruin into a symbol of all artistic creation; the literary or painted fragment is more highly prized than the finished or unified work"
285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps
photographs of leaders before they became famous
Apple //c - a photoset on Flickr
apple //c unboxing!
torgo_x: Everything old
browsing the web with mosaic 0.93
Image:Carlos segundo80.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress)
the original image contains a thumb, which was airbrushed out--choose "jpeg image" or the link from the detail page to see it
interview with the creators of zfs
The 10 Downing Street Door
oh, england: the "0" on 10 downing street is fixed at an angle, because the original had a badly-fixed "0" also.
Wired 14.11: The Perfect Thing
American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
easter island inhabited by humans much later than previously thought, and deforested by rats??
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
World Leaders Youth Pics - Iran Defence Forum
Slavery and the American Revolution
The New Criterion — Tales from the crypt
history of the new yorker via a review of the cd anthology; attempts to diminish it
BBC SPORT | Football | World Cup 2006 | World Cup memories
Tony Rothman's Article on Evariste Galois
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic
From Nineveh to New Orleans - Books - Times Online
Focus: White do-gooders did for black America - World - Times Online