Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Postblogging Technology, December 1944, II: With Thundering Engines

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Wing Commander R_. C_., RCAFVR, DFC (Bar), L_. House, Isle of Axholme, Lincs, U.K. Dear Sir: I am glad that I was able to...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The Siege: Cold Ashes

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From childhood, I remember some ancient bit of literary British domestic detail from that decade when the whole country, as I understood ...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Postblogging Technology, December 1944, I: Secular Stagnation Ahead?

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Wall Street spends a lot of time on its mustache. A lot of time. Wing Commander R_. C__, RCAFVR, D.F.C. (Bar) L_. House, ...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Chthon: Terror, Night and Earth. Plus Vikings

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These Viking raid re-enactors are I don't even. It seems like I waited forever for the library to scare up a copy of Peter Hodges...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

On Thalassocracy, II: Diana in the Reeds

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Art by Jeffach:  Deviantart Page ; Pinterest ; Tumblr Great is Diana of the Ephesians! Ephesus is an abandoned city three kilomete...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Techblogging November, 1944, II: Meanwhile, at the North Pole

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Wing Commander R_. C_. RCAFVR, DFC (Bar), L_. House, Isle of Axholme, Lincs. Dear Sir: I do not know if I can alleviate your co...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Bronze Age Collapse, VI: Sea of Flowers

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EDIT: I can't spell. With wild surmise, from a hill at Kerkenes Dag, a discovery: This looks down on a sea of flowers in the s...
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