Honeywell Rabbit Sculpture
Honeywell Rabbit Sculpture (ca. 1965) at the Computer History Museum.
The Rabbit sculpture features on pages 48-49, in Core magazine (2015), published by the Computer History Museum.
The sculpture, made of resistors, was created around 1965, and part of an advertising campaign featured in Business Week magazine.
Univac ad - Fortune magazine, September 1956
Early computers, from the scientific world to the business world.
Photos - Tour de France 2024
Photos from our trip to the 2024 Tour de France, week three in Nice.
We toured with Custom Getaways and they were absolutely amazing 👌
Hyper-Reality
Hyper-Reality on Vimeo was posted 9 years ago, but it feels like the not-so-distant future, like in the next 5 minutes.
Video - Tour de France 2024
Video from our trip to the 2024 Tour de France, it’s 15min but quite entertaining!
We toured with Custom Getaways and had a wonderful time. They’re an official tour operator of the Tour de France, making us part of the tour with special access and events, amazing!
The video was taken with an iPhone 15 Pro and a DJI Osmo Pocket 3.
iPad traffic lights Easter egg
Is it just me, or was there a pre-roll before Craig’s F1 driving showing an Easter egg of the iPad Window Controls? I think there was a quick image of the traffic light buttons on an iPad window floating by in the montage, but it’s not on the published video as far as I can tell.
6 out of 5 stars - Apple WWDC 2025
One of the best parts of the WWDC 2025 Keynote, “6 out of 5 ⭐️” by Allen Stone.
Visualizing History
Histography is a data visualization project by Martin Stauber, and it’s pretty amazing.
“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new recorded events. The interface allows for users to view between decades to millions of years. The viewer can choose to watch a variety of events which have happened in a particular period or to target a specific event in time. For example you can look at the past century within the categories of war and inventions.
The project reminds me of The Fifth Element when Leeloo is researching “War." It’s not the interface, but the way so much information can be visualized in such a compact form – it can be a bit overwhelming.
(Revised and republished April 12th, 2025)
Deep LA Conference at The Huntington
I’ll be presenting a paper at the “Deep L.A.” graduate history conference taking place at The Huntington on October 3rd.
The conference is sponsored by UCLA and USC, with a focus on Los Angeles and Southern California regional history: http://lahistoryconference.tumblr.com
I’m presenting a portion of a chapter in my dissertation, which focuses on mainframes, paperwork, and the electrical utility company Southern California Edison during the postwar era.
(Revised and republished March 28th, 2025)
The Census Has Always Been "Big Data"
The Census has always been “Big Data,” with or without computers and the automation of information.
Census and Sensibility: A Little History of Big Data at IEEE (Wayback Machine link)
Consider just one use of today’s big data with a deep history and a major impact on computational technology: keeping track of a country’s citizenry. This has often been accomplished through a periodic counting, or census. Many references to censuses exist in the ancient world, from Egyptian tomb inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible to, perhaps, most famously, the “worldwide” Roman census described in the Book of Luke in the New Testament.
The Virgin and Saint Joseph register for the census before Governor Quirinius. Byzantine mosaic at the Chora Church, Constantinople 1315–1320 – via Wikipedia
(Revised and republished March 28th, 2025)