One year ago today
Gendered crayons: From Melissa and Doug, whose image is of a cool, progressive toymaker.
Five years ago today
Chile's forgotten socialist Internet: Allende contracted with a British garage-inventor to erect an egalatarian nationwide data-network.
Ten years ago today
Making Book: best of the proto-blogs: This is a terrific book. I mean, I had no idea. It is a convulsively funny, shrewd and sharp collection of anaecdotes well-told, observations well-observed and jokes hilariously cracked, all the while tracing secret histories of fandom, the ins and outs of being diagnosed narcoleptic at a time when such diagnoses were considered sprious and radical by the medical establishment, and of the gypsy life of a con-running, APA-publishing foremother of the blogging masses whose "personal publishing revolution" has its origins in the dim days of mimeographs and dittos.
