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, May 29, 2015

Postblogging Technology, April 1945, II: Headaches and Hope

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dear Father: I write you in these sad and trying ...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

The Bishops' Sea: Planting the Atlantic Cross

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Note: diacritics omitted when it's easier that way. Hólar farm in Öxnadalur, north Iceland, Photo by Rajan Parriker, posted at http:...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Postblogging Technology, April, 1945, I: Of Robots and Men

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dear Father: As a first order of business, congratula...
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Good History Can Be Boring: Grexit, Or, The Too-Late Bronze Age

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The Greek forest fires of 2007. Boring or not? Lots of things happened this week that I'm tempted to write about. VE Day happ...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Postblogging Technology, March 1945, II: This Post Brought To You by Kleenex, Beauty Secret of the Stars!

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Captain (E) J_. C_., R.N., D.S.O. (Bar), D.S.C., M.M. HMAS  Kuttabul, New South Wales, Australia. My Darling: . . . Aft...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Fourteen Large: Grexiting the Late Bronze Age, 2

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First, I've just read Oliver Dickinson's new attempt to synthesise the Greek Bronze Age--Iron Age transition.   Powerfully scholarl...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Postblogging Technology: March, 1945, I: Out Ride the Sons of Terra, Far Drives the Thundering Jet

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Captain (E) J_. C_., R.N., D.S.O. (Bar), D.S.C., M.M. HMAS Kuttabul, New South Wales, Australia. Davidcmc58 My Dearest: You...
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