Introducing my entry into the THATCamp Maker Challege: Moby Schtick, a Twitter bot that randomly mashes up tweets from comedian Rob Delaney (“the funniest person on Twitter”) with passages from his favorite novel, Moby-Dick (“the funniest book about sperm whales”). Be forewarned, this bot is NSFW (Not Safe for Whaling). Sample tweets: I avoid controversy […]
Continue readingIn an effort to make a space for digital historians to communicate and collaborate, I created a “Commons in a Box” site: digitalhistorians.org/.
Continue readingIn American naval history, officer promotions have gotten a lot of offhanded comments but little substantive analysis (one exception I just found: Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes, by Donald Chisholm, a book I look forward to reading at greater length). The commonplace assertion is something like this: After the War of 1812, it became almost impossible for […]
Continue readingTaking my existing bibliographical information (currently stored in a Google doc) and plugging it into Zotero. I can't provide a link. Updated to add: https://www.zotero.org/athurman/items
Continue readingIn honor of the fun 3d workshops today, I present the CHMN logo in glorious 3d. (Or 2d screenshots here) I’d like to note that the UVA has their SHANTI group, named in part for the Buddhist virtue of patience and forbearance. Anyone wishing to cultivate these virtues is encouraged to do 3d modeling […]
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I'll admit it, what I spent my day creating is completely useless, but it was fun to make! Click the link to get to the full five page comic. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jq39aglfp29erub/Retro.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/jq39aglfp29erub/Retro.pdf</a> To make this, I used an ipad and its camera, the app called Comic Life, and dropbox. The whole flow is easier on […]
Continue readingSo I did it: I made a beta of a contract repository. It’s a work in progress, but check it out, free your contracts by contributing them, and leave suggestions in the comments. Oh, and favorite this if you want to vote for it in the Maker’s Challenge! For some context, see my earlier post […]
Continue readingI'd like to bring PowerPoint back to THATCamp. No, not like that. Many THATCampers will know that I'm interested in performance and deformance in digital humanities, something I've written about <a href="http://www.foundhistory.org/2012/02/15/game-change-digital-technology-and-performative-humanities/">here</a> and Mark Sample has written about <a href="http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/02/notes-towards-a-deformed-humanities/">here</a>. In a <a href="http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-71-everybody-has-a-hamburger.html">recent episode of the podcast Roderick on the Line</a>, John Roderick described […]
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