This is a huge database of pictures from Life Magazine (and sometimes not from there) that cut into our nostalgia and find new perspectives on our grandparents' and great-grandparents' times. Here and Here. I saw the first picture in this stream in a Denny's in Texas, with some really bad airbrushing to insert the Denny's logo. So lame.
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A cool site that takes your birth date (or a "friend's" birth date) and cranks out a list of interesting facts about your life so far. Find out how many days you've been alive or approximately how many kilometres total you've travelled through the galaxy. Fun. Here. So there's this new videogame that is kind of what might have happened if Frank Miller and Tarantino had a love child. It's the 60s and the Nazis won. You're pissed about that and aim to do something about it. And to advertise it, they created a fake recording label with all sorts of 60s hits as they might have sounded if they were written with the Third Reich in charge. Creepy, funny and totally weird. Check it out: http://www.neumondrecordings.com/en-us/site You wouldn't think Disney could be this funny. This cartoon was made in '97 and disappeared for a while. It was recovered a few years ago and now you're watching it. Life is cool. A really cool fake documentary from the future, where the economic balance of the world has shifted, and North America finds itself on the other end of consumer capitalism. Several segments are online. The trailer is at the bottom. Digital Janitor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ZeDtorKcA Baby Makers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVH7TQ5gqj0 Digital Spam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J21WdMbTYx4 In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls' playhouse - IO95/24/2014 "The task was doomed from the start; later testimony indicated Kulka had no idea where to find the locking pin in the large and complicated bomb-release mechanism. After a tense 12 minutes searching for the pin, the bombardier decided, correctly, that it must be high up in the bomb bay and invisible because of the curvature of the bomb. A short man, he jumped to pull himself up to get a look at where he thought the locking pin should be. Unfortunately, he evidently chose the emergency bomb-release mechanism for his handhold. The weapon dropped from its shackle and rested momentarily on the closed bomb-bay doors with Captain Kulka splayed across it in the manner of Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Kulka grabbed at a bag that had providentially been stored in the bomb bay, while the more-than-three-ton bomb broke open the bomb-bay doors and fell earthward. The bag Kulka was holding came loose, and he found himself sliding after the bomb without his parachute. He managed to grab something-he wasn't sure what-and haul himself to safety. Moments later the plane was rocked by the shock wave of the blast when the bomb hit the ground." http://io9.com/5904633/in-1958-america-accidentally-dropped-a-nuclear-weapon-on-two-little-girls-playhouse He's been busy since the end of Pink Floyd. "Mechanical things are just... brilliant," says Nick, gently tapping on a Ferrari that falls closely to hand. "You can fettle and tune and take them apart - but in my case I usually have to get someone else to put them back together again. Then the little adjustments you make turn into tangible things like faster laps and higher top speeds. I'm very grateful to have a passion for cars." http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/nick-mason-car-collection-2012-05-04 Google Books has a wealth of old magazines uploaded that you can read for free, whenever. It's amazing, curious and sometimes disturbing to see into the past this way. Here's the May 12, 1947 issue. http://books.google.ca/books?id=ZEgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA42&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false "The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower"
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