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V-Disc Records
, a government-created music company, made 78's full of music, stories and announcements and sent them overseas to US servicemen from 1943-1949. They were never made available in record stores and, since the American Federation of Musicians was on strike at the time, they were the only
recordings being made. All of the top stars of the day made them, including
Duke Ellington,
Louis Armstrong,
Benny Goodman and more. After the program ended in 1949, the government, following an AFM request that the records not be used for commercial purposes, destroyed the original masters. Luckily the Library of Congress has a
complete set of V-Discs and the National Archives saved some of the metal stampers.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 4:11 PM on November 4, 2004
(2 comments)
The World's Worst Website?
Well, yes, it
is really bad, but is it the worst? More importantly, isn't there a better way to educate budding web designers? How about sites that encourage, with examples of what to do, rather than the opposite? [via
The Red Ferret Journal] [SFW, annoying MIDI]
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 8:24 AM on August 19, 2004
(14 comments)
Register to vote and you can get free beer!
What better way to reach that vast pool of unregistered twenty-one year-olds than offering them something they actually want? Brought to you by the Democrats, of course. But not without some controversy (from health experts, not Republicans), even though they only get two 2-ounce glasses.
Any other examples of inventive voter registration drives out there?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 5:09 AM on June 18, 2004
(22 comments)
Remember Mac System 6?
If you do, then P.dro Classic™ is for you. Relive the glory days of 1 bit-per-pixel porn (it's almost life-like if you squint) and Pong-like games with the mouse! Hey, it's Friday and this is Flash.
For me, it's the Startup Sound that makes this.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 7:03 AM on May 21, 2004
(15 comments)
Johnny Hart stirs up more controversy,
this time among the Asian community. Back in November it was the
Muslims. How does he manage to stay on the comics page? At what point is a mainstream comic no longer acceptable to the mainstream?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 3:20 PM on January 19, 2004
(34 comments)
Someone is watching what you post.
Today I received a note from a site called InternetSeer that told me some of my posts on The
{Fray} were temporarily unavailable. Too bad I never asked them to keep an eye on things for me. Who are these people are what are they doing?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 10:06 AM on November 21, 2003
(29 comments)
Police find skeleton
in Oddfellows lodge. Turns out, they'd already found it, 6 years before (your guess is as good as mine why no one did anything then). Even more interesting, it's not the only one that's been found and subsequently investigated by the police around the country. Makes you wonder about those Oddfellows.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 2:06 PM on October 31, 2003
(26 comments)
Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer are fighting, again.
It started over a remark
Dave made about various blogging services.
Mark turned around and created a
bot that reads Dave's RSS feed every 5 minutes and spits out the text, annotated to show what's been added/deleted/changed since the last time it ran. Dave's claiming copyright infringement, Mark's claiming fair use. Okay MeFi folks, which side are you on, and why?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 1:29 PM on July 11, 2003
(67 comments)
Bunnies and Easter Don't Mix,
please think twice before getting that cute baby bunny as a gift for a child. Rabbits require the same committment as dogs or cats and can live 10 years or more (mine is 11). So this year,
Make Mine Chocolate.
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 8:44 AM on April 18, 2003
(12 comments)
Reply To All button considered harmful
An employee (called a manager in the headline but a millwright in the article) was fired from Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY when he replied to an email announcing "National Coming Out Day" (hint: he wasn't in favor). But in addition to the sender, his message went to about 1000 other employees. Kodak says he was terminated when he refused to admit that sending it to all those people was wrong, not for it's content. Is this Political Correctness run amok or justifiable?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 5:00 AM on October 31, 2002
(53 comments)
Plastic,
the site MeFi'ers love to hate, is temporarily off the air. The site says they're moving to new servers. Given the problems their parent has, any bets on whether it reappears?
posted to MetaFilter by tommasz
at 6:56 AM on December 3, 2001
(14 comments)
