Category Archives: History

1 Year of the NY Times

Posted on 20/07/2011 by Adam

This is mesmerising! Phillip Mendonça-Vieira: Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com.

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Drunk History

Posted on 16/10/2010 by Adam

This is brilliant: get someone locked and get them to talk about something historical, interlace with reenactments with real actors. Unfortunately most of them are American history, but here’s a fab one about Tesla with Crispin Glover:

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Zuckerberg the Douche

Posted on 09/03/2010 by Adam

I’m sure I’ve called Mark Zuckerberg a scumbag here before, usually because of his total disregard for privacy. This is the other reason. I don’t feel all that sorry for the guys at Harvard that were done over, their handling … Continue reading →

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Sir Henry’s – 120bpm

Posted on 19/02/2010 by Adam

Finally got around to watching all of this. I only got the tail end of Henry’s, caught a few sweats before they faded out but I ended up spending most of my time in Freakscene. It amazing even then though, … Continue reading →

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London in 1927

Posted on 03/02/2010 by Adam
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Cork County Council Crest

Posted on 19/11/2009 by Adam

The Cork City Council crest is an excellent example of simple, representative design, but the County Council one is much more interesting. Well, for nerds anyway. Here’s the logo: And here’s your anecdote for the pub: TeachNet: In May 1899 … Continue reading →

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Under Construction

Posted on 19/10/2009 by Adam

“This small collection was saved from the rapidly dying Geocities”. My screenshot doesn’t do it justice. Go, go visit it in all it’s wonderous animated gifedness!

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Youghal Photos

Posted on 10/09/2009 by Adam

Taken on a walk around Youghal in February of this year. Posted on Corcaigh.org.

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1911 Census Online

Posted on 29/08/2009 by Adam

Including scans of the original documents, in case you didn’t hear. The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely … Continue reading →

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Merlin!

Posted on 17/07/2009 by Adam

I wish I still had mine. :( via  Giz.

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