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Crunk History

Andy Van Slyke — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:42:34 +0000

In honor of our new Twitter series, Great Moments in Historical Inaccuracies, we embed Drunk History, volume 1, featuring Michael Cera (The Story of Aaron Burr).

make the logo more intimidating

Andy Van Slyke — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:05:45 +0000

The Vancouver Police Museum tweeted (twat???) earlier this week about receiving a complaint that their logo encouraged police brutality. Hmmm. At first we thought we were looking at a key or some kind of contorted, phallic billy club, but then we realized we were staring down the barrel of a gun. Way to criminalize your audience! It’s a good thing nothing is actually illegal in Vancouver.

Judgement: Brutal. Whaddya think?

We are a bit conflicted about Police Museums, actually. We confess to having a really good time at the Police museum in Bogota, Colombia, but that could have been the twick-face talking. A lengthy exploration of that experience, coming soon. Interesting challenge of representation at any rate.

PS: In our de rigeur google image search for a phunny image for this post, we came across The Police Guide–your source for all things cop culture! Wheweee, yeah! What a shitshow of a site.

How-to and Why-for

Andy Van Slyke — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:31:23 +0000

This is cute, if a bit obvo. Twitter for Archivists, a slideshow presentation, on slideshare.

We’ve been tweeting our faces off lately and we’ve only un-followed David Lynch. Dude, you’re a genius, and Twin Peaks is the best thing ever (yesterday was the 20 year “anniversary” of the fictional death of Laura Palmer–spoiler alert!!), but your deep thoughts are more befitting of @jackhandy.

not-so-run-of-the-milwaukee

Andy Van Slyke — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:07:25 +0000

The UW Milwaukee library has a Nurse Romance Cover of the Week online archive. And there are a LOT of weeks. Oh my gosh, so many weeks, I think I may have to take my time and count them all, one at a time, full image search.

Please note how we feature a cover in which the woman in question is a Doctor, not a nurse lusting after some skeezy male Doc. Feminism lives y’all.

Found via @archivesbitch on twitter, who rightly asks, Why can’t there be an Archivists Romance Cover of the Week Archive?

omg, hi Smithsonian a/s/l? lol.

Andy Van Slyke — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:21:04 +0000

Hilarious tweet from @smithsonian this morn, a seemingly internal memo to other institutional twitterers advising and announcing a cunningly 21st century tactic:

Note: To RT other SI accounts, & still have enough room to fit their entire Tweet, we will still resort to a bit of “chatspeak” like “2day.”

We also recommend l33tspeak, LOLspeak, and web-2.0 style missing vowlspk.

DWYCK or Tweet

Andy Van Slyke — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:19:08 +0000

We feel dirty and ashamed, but we done gone and did it. We're on that new fangled twitter device, @suggestedD. We'll be using it to follow similar museum and library types and to post live blogs from our desk-setting and museum-partying lifestyle.

Check us out, yo, it's right over there -->

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is, I get more props and stunts like Bruce Willis.