Slashdot tells us of the New York Times’ report on the earliest known sound recording, made almost twenty years before Edison’s work.

One of TalkingPointsMemo.com‘s advertisers is HistoryShots, which creates posters that show such things as the Moon Race, Political Party History, and other neat stuff.

Thank you, Colonel Petrov.

(If that link doesn’t work without registration, the story is excerpted at DailyKos.)

The things you learn from cleaning up address lists… I just ran across an address on the “State of Franklin Road”. Wikipedia tells us that “Frankland” seceded from North Carolina and attempted to join the United States in 1785, but it could not get the full number of votes required by the Articles of Confederation.

…and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year….

Thanks to Ted for the reminder.

*sigh* Geeks and their toys…

Or so says Joe Lieberman.

Theodore Roosevelt, during the First World War, had a somewhat different perspective.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Howard Dean wrote an open letter to Sen Lieberman asking him not to try to stifle debate on issues of vital importance to our country. If you agree with this, go cosign it.

…literally. Check out this site that gives biographies of various people who have appeared on US stamps.

Note: I’m listening to Wicked at the moment, and I found this site by searching for “elphaba -wicked” on Google.