Category Archives: history
links for 2010-02-01: Roger Eagle
Roger Eagle – Twisted Wheel Manchester – DJ, entrepreneur, club owner and important influence on the British music scene from the sixties to the nineties. Owned Eric’s club, Liverpool ran the Magic Village and Staxx Club, Manchester Roger Eagle interview … more…
History of Chicago Music 1908-1980
This three hour History of Chicago Music 1908-1980 runs from the very earliest recordings until just short of the development of house music in the early 80s. You will be wanting a different compilation for that. The James Reese Europe … more…
LSD History Comic
A telling of the history of lysergic acid diethylamine-25, better known as LSD or simply acid, in the form of a Jack Chick style comic tract, nicely done. Eventually, the generations of people who subliminally wonder for a moment whether … more…
links for 2007-12-18: cylinder preservation
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project really old audio recording archive (via Bruce Sterling) (tags: music audio wax-cylinder history mp3)
smoking ruins
From a thread at sydenham.org.uk — my local discussion forum — with lots of pictures of the Crystal Palace, which stood on Sydenham Hill after it was moved from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851, until it was … more…
links for 2007-12-06: Mysterious maps, Morrissey
Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers | Reuters Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a … more…
links for 2007-11-12: engineers, embattled churches, magenta and lavender
Crooked Timber » » Engineers of Jihad engineers predisposed to (right wing) extremism? Worth chasing up the earlier thread too (tags: psychology jihad terrorism engineering) Norfolk battle training area churches Another venture into another exclusion zone, via nyplep (tags: history … more…
Eduardo Recife
Eduardo Recife, Detail from animations for HBO, commissioned by Raygun for Assume the Position, 2006 There’s a short video clip also, with some of the animations in situ. Assume the Position looks like it might be worth looking at, although … more…