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American da Vinci

tellurian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:02:27 -0800

Viktor Schreckengost who died last year at the grand age of 101, was regarded by some as the father of industrial design. Every adult in America has ridden in, ridden on, drunk out of, stored their things in, eaten off of, been costumed in, etc… and there is no going past his gorgeous pedal cars. Some of his work can also be seen online at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Jacques Brel et compagnie

Kattullus — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:31:22 -0800

YouTube user lightning49 has 160 of videos of French singers which she has subtitled with her translations. Her biggest collection is of Jacques Brel videos but there are also songs performed by George Brassens, Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf as well as a smattering of other stuff. To start you off with a few songs here are three of my favorite songs by Brel, Je suis un soir d'éte, Le moribond and La valse à mille temp along with Charles Aznavour's La boheme, Edith Piaf's Milord and Georges Brassens' Les passantes.

#3[T1:Al Gore) i'm gonna make a sandwich and invent the internets ... brb

not_on_display — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:43:50 -0800

Before instant messaging, before chat groups, before IRC... there was Diversi-Dial. As the eighties became the nineties, the internet grew, and DDial died. Or did it? More than 20 years later--still at 300 baud and on an original Apple ][e--DDial lives on! Back in the early 1980's, the movie "WarGames" was played repeatedly on cable. Home computers, such as the Apple ][ and the C=64, were becoming affordable, and had ports into which you could plug a modem. Put the peanut butter in the chocolate, and soon, many socially angst-ridden or isolated teens were made aware of each others' presence in surrounding towns and counties via the various BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems) of the time. But a single BBS where many users could congregate together at the same time was rare. (Compuserve had a multi-user online chat feature at the time, but their rates--around $6/hr--were exorbitant, especially on a kid's paper-route budget.) Enter DiversiDial, written by Bill Basham of Diversified Software Research, which took advantage of the ability to plug seven modems into an Apple ][e at once. The result? Thousands of teenagers (and some actual weird-ass adults) across North America ~~wasting~~ spending millions of teen-hours talking about everything and nothing, trading wit, barbs, phone numbers, and generally scooping themselves out a social niche where none had existed before. Meet-ups? Well, imagine a house packed full of intelligent, often nerdy, no-longer-alienated eighties teens, and Budweiser (among other intoxicants) purchased by someone's older sibling. John Hughes would have been proud. Before AOL. Before the internets. Way, way before MeFi. If you were a DDialer, nostalgiacize here. (My local DDial was #5150 in Reveeah, MA, formerly DDial 2112 in Lynnfield.)

I'm a girl watcher...

phrontist — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:54:34 -0800

Modest, yet fashionable. It may be February, but you'd best get an early start finding the perfect modest swimwear. Onesies are probably best left the domain of christian harlots. A two-piece is right out. How about a four-piece? The fine folks at Haşema and Ahiida can hook you up with the hottest styles this season. After a refreshing swim, why not go for a jog?

Have You Seen Me?

fandango_matt — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:33:20 -0800

Requiem for La Contessa: After she was set afire in December, three questions arose: who burned her, why, and what became of her figurehead? The first two have been answered, but the third remains a mystery despite the sculpture's brief appearance in a photo on tribe.net.

"Window in the Sky", a U2 montage of 137 video clips

stbalbach — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:20:28 -0800

"Window in the Sky" is a YouTube style video synch mash-up done on a professional budget with the magic of copyright clearances. "It's a triumph of postmodern reconstruction" says the Washington Post.

I swear it was 7 just a couple of minutes ago...

buzzv — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:50:41 -0800

The Clock is ticking again.

Pathetic little fat man, noones bloody laughing

headless — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:07:45 -0800

"See his pug-nose face." David Bowie, from Extras second season, which premieres tomorrow in USA. Stephen Merchant (from today's RADAR) and Ricky Gervais have been mentioned here before, but I think the David Bowie clip is worth it.

La Planète sauvage

smoothvirus — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:31:43 -0800

La Planète sauvage - based on the novel Oms en Série by Stefan Wul, and known to the English speaking world as Fantastic Planet, is a wonderfully psychadelic animated Sci-Fi film from 1973. An international production between France and Czechoslovakia, the movie has a cult following, mostly from viewers who saw it on USA's Night Flight in the 1980's. Although it has languished in obscurity for some time, Hollywood has decided it's time for a live action remake. For those who haven't seen it, or for people who haven't seen it in twenty years, some kind soul has uploaded the entire film to Youtube. You'll never look at your pets the same way again.

video of LAPD beating up a gang member

Bravocharlie — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:40:35 -0800

was there just a second ago... Cop Watch LA, a police watchdog group, posted the video on YouTube, said organizer Joaquin Cienfuegos. Cienfuegos said the video was shot by a neighbor of Cardenas with a cell phone camera. The neighbor gave it to Cardenas' family, who then gave it to Cop Watch, according to Cienfuegos.