Duke University has three image collections of old U.S. and Canadian advertisements. Ad*Access a database of over 7000 print ads from 1911 to 1956. Emergence of Advertising in America has 9000 images of ads from 1850-1920. Medicine and Madison Avenue has 600 medical ads and documents from 1911 to 1958. You can browse the collections by product, company, subject, year and categories or you can use the search function. Here are some of my favorites: Miss Clairol, They're Both in the Swim Today, Fancy Goods and Toy Bazaar, Sky Blue Pink, SAS Makes Airline History, A Montgomery Ward Hat that Becomes Nearly Every Woman, Radiant Peony and Hitler's Death Warrant.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 7:57 PM on April 14, 2008 (11 comments)

The most dangerous path in the world. NSFA (acrophobics)
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders at 8:06 PM on April 6, 2008 (172 comments)

I need a really awesome entrance song. Something that makes the audience be like, "Aw damn, I now know that this is going to be very enjoyable, all because this song is so badass."
posted to Ask Metafilter by ictow at 12:24 PM on April 4, 2008 (93 comments)

What is the happiest and catchiest (mostly) unknown pop song you know?
posted to Ask Metafilter by humannaire at 10:15 PM on March 27, 2008 (115 comments)

Help introduce me to new indie music and any blogs that cover them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by phyrewerx at 7:00 PM on March 25, 2008 (24 comments)

In Mongolia, overtone singing (or hoomei, as it's known locally) is mainly a guy thing, but there are exceptions to the rule, for example, the Hoomei Women's Group. More commonly though, women who want to sing do so in an exquisite, soaring style like this and this. Sometimes the men do the hoomei thing while the women do that soaring thing. Then there are those lovely choral arrangements. And then there are those rare moments when the YouTube poster's description of a clip just hits the nail square on the head, as with this one: amazing.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 7:26 AM on February 29, 2008 (23 comments)

"The most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear," Frank Sinatra wrote of rock 'n' roll during the time of Elvis Presley. But Frank wasn't stupid... he knew his relevance was fading and if you can't beat 'em, you have to join 'em. So in 1960, Elvis Presley was welcomed home from his two year military tour by the Frank Sinatra Timex Show "Welcome Home Elvis" special. Later Sinatra said, "I'm just a singer. Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture."
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 9:43 PM on February 26, 2008 (17 comments)

NetClassicsFilter: All 24 of the 25 GI Joe PSAs redubbed by Eric Fensler, via YouTube: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 [some nsfw] [previously] [also via]
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 8:22 PM on February 26, 2008 (54 comments)

GoofyTricksForKidsFilter: Looking for simple tricks that only kids under 8 appreciate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias at 7:05 AM on February 22, 2008 (43 comments)

I have a 3 week old baby boy, about 30 plain onesies and a package of iron-on printer paper...
posted to Ask Metafilter by beccaj at 7:39 PM on October 27, 2007 (25 comments)

What are some good web sites to buy cute, "hip" (whatever that means) t-shirts and other clothing for babies and toddlers? Bonus points if it's non-gendered.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dersins at 9:09 AM on December 7, 2007 (30 comments)