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"Oh God, I could do better than that..."

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:22:52 -0800

Bored kid on a Friday night in 1974 in the States? The Midnight Special. Bored kid on a Friday night in the UK? The Old Grey Whistle Test! Wha… huh? On a shoestring budget of just £500 an episode, for 16 years the BBC2s OGWT played host to live performances* from some of the most influential musicians of the time at their artistic peaks. Like who? Well, there's…

…just to name a few. [Inspired by philip-random's great post] * - Incredibly good live performances.

Old squid ink

Astro Zombie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:56:58 -0800

Scientists draw squid using its 150 million-year-old fossilised ink. Paleontologists discovered the remains of the creature, called a Belemnotheutis antiquus, during a dig at a Victorian excavation in Trowbridge, Wilts. They cracked open what appeared to be an ordinary looking rock only to find the one-inch-long black ink sac inside. ... Remarkably, the ink they created was good enough to allow them to draw the squid-like animal and write its Latin name.

Don't tread on ME

sredefer — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:53:13 -0800

Costumed patriots channel forefathers: coming to a civic center near you! Need a little pump up music?

Too old for photography

klausness — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:46:24 -0800

Expiration Notice is an on-line magazine dedicated to work by emerging photographers over 35. An interesting counterpoint to the usual hyping of "young and emerging artists." (via)

You can almost hear 'em...

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:32:10 -0800

There's the fascinating autistic musical savant Blind Tom Wiggins. There are musical clowns and minstrels, and poignant images of child musicians. There are tantalizing and truly exotic images of musicians from far-flung corners of the world: India, Persia, China, Japan... all this and more at the Vintage Musicians Flickr group. Oh, and who's that critter with the banjo? Why, that may just be the ORIGINAL LOL CAT.

Lost London, in photographs

6am — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:39 -0800

User El_Greco of the SkyscaperCity Forum presents "Lost London", an absolutely stunning photographic thread of old London architecture.

Old People Dancing

not_on_display — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:47:50 -0800

I just love to watch old people dancing. I hope that when I'm this old, I'll be able to do the same!

Yeah, it's been awhile.

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:42:14 -0800

"I didn't intend to go without sex for a decade and a half. But celibacy isn't something you necessarily plan."

Polaroids are not dead!

krautland — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:18:23 -0800

Poladroid is a free app for your mac that lets you drag an image onto the polaroid camera in the corner of your screen. it then spits out a polaroid image that develops on your desktop. there's a flickr group for these shots already. it's beta "but really works."

The 123 Year Old Eyes

andeles — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:30:35 -0800

Bernt Aune's corneas are 123 years old, which possibly makes them the oldest living human tissue on record. Eduard Zirm performed the first successful corneal transplant was in 1905, and was soon followed by hundreds of successful transplantations. The Eye Bank Association of America was established in 1985, in part to provide regulation of eye banks in the US. Over 100 banks now operate in the country, and over 400 banks exist worldwide. Until recently, most US eye banks only accepted eye tissue from donors aged 65 or less; a new study has shown that corneas from donors aged 66 to 75 can be used just as well. "This could expand the donor pool by 20 to 35 percent." Here is a pamphlet [pdf] on the history of corneal and eye transplants from the EBAA. A personal log of a cornea transplant.

Spanning centuries

showbiz_liz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:50:00 -0800

Daughter of a slave casts vote for Obama. As the centenarian looks forward to turning 110 later this year, let's all take a moment to celebrate centenarians... and, of course, try to work out just how on earth they made it this far. High levels of vitamins A and E seem to play a role, or of course you could just be lucky enough to be from Okinawa or Sardinia. Whatever the reason, they sure know how to live. And as we've seen previously, they're fascinating people.

Here is the best part. You have a head start. If you are among the very young at heart.

mrducts — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:21:46 -0800

Young@Heart. What started as a 2006 British television documentary and became an audience favorite at the Los Angeles and Sundance film festivals in 2007 and 2008 opens across the United States this weekand will soon open in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and Australia. The opening sequence showing Eileen Hall , then 92 , singing the 1982 hit from punk-rock group The Clash provided the inspiration for director Stephen Walker when he first saw the group on stage in London in 2005. Besides giving new meaning to lyrics from popular hits, the film is comedic and poignant as it explores friendship, old age and death.

Sprites ahoy!

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:09:47 -0800

Like sprites? The People's Sprites has the most extensive repository of old game pixel art I've ever seen.
Some good examples from:
Battletoads, Excitebike, Final Fantasy GBA, Mega Man, Metal Slug, Mortal Kombat, Punch-Out, River City Ransom, Shinobi, Samurai Shodown, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, and my favorite, Super Metroid.
Hundreds more at the site, plus original and public domain ones.

Old logos

tepidmonkey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:57:51 -0800

120 pages of old logos, scanned from a 1970s book called “World of Logotypes.”

Still kicking

whimsicalnymph — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:13:24 -0800

Buster Martin is an old man. This 101 year old Brit intends to run the London Marathon. He is, as you may guess, the sprightliest centenarian you've ever seen. Last year, after leaving a pub, he was jumped by some hoodlums, but managed to beat them off when he "pushed one and kung fu kicked the other." He refuses to stop working, which doesn't seem to be a bad idea. Running a marthon, even at 101, looks like it might be a good idea for health and longevity too.

Wot's...Uh The Deal?

punkfloyd — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:34:25 -0800

Pink Floyd fans may not need no education but Gilmourish, an exhaustive review of the guitars and audio effects of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour (with help from an insider), will leave most comfortably numb.

Hipkiss database of old maps

ranchocalamari — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:21:15 -0800

Do you know the way to San Jose? I found this googling for map images for an animated title sequence I am doing. Wow. A treasure trove of antique maps of every age, description and location.

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.

Alex404 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:57:41 -0800

Interviews with 100-year-olds:
(Short): Quick NPR interview with a guy who works on Wall Street.
(Medium): A series of small segments with the oldest graduate of Gilbert High School.
(Long): Part of WFMU's 365 day project. Restored tape from 1978, on which it appears a young student is interviewing an old lady from Kansas.

Global Warming, Strange Attractors...

sporb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:15:01 -0800

Remember all that talk about the Gulf stream turning south and England entering an new Ice Age?
Well, better take a look at this one: (at the bottom)... Ok, this is the Jet stream, not the Gulf stream, but turbulence is turbulence and chaotic systems have a way of quickly migrating to new attractors, often first displaying a kind of turbulence during the transition phase. Here's a link to a .pdf that may be helpful (or not...)
I tell you - Winnipeg (Canada's Global Warming Success Story) just keeps lookin' better and better! But, hopefully, never this good...

Second time (un)lucky

the duck by the oboe — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:19:19 -0800

A bowhead whale was recently killed off the coast of Alaska. When its hunters carved it up, they discovered someone else had attempted to kill it- more than a century earlier.

yamaiga.com

hama7 — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:47:44 -0800

廃道レポート・東北の廃道・旧道・国道・県道・林道.

Man, I hate it when my body gets scribbly.

miss lynnster — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:30:35 -0800

What happens when people get old?

CRAYON!

divabat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:28:07 -0800

Before RSS and personalized aggregators such as Personalized Google and NetVibes, there was CRAYON, a service that allowed you to "CReAte Your Own Newspaper" by providing a page with links to chosen sources. [mi]

Funny ha ha and Funny queer

grahamwell — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:13:23 -0800

The Open Secret. "They were a light in the dark ... This is who and what I am; this is my tribe — and, look, I’m famous and life is fun". Matthew Parris sings the praises of those old British poofs, the camp, safe, funny gays that your mum liked. All together now I'm Free! more more

The neverending David Gonterman.

6am — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:10:11 -0800

David Gonterman is still alive. Gonterman was last mentioned here five years ago. Gonterman has become a long-time Deviant. Gonterman is accepting comissions via his journal. Gonterman is writing a "part autobiography" about a boy who was teased in school and retreated into a fantasy land. Gonterman has made available the first part of this novel (doc). Gonterman has made available the first part of his new furry PI comic series (pdf). If you don't know Gonterman, you are fortunate: this is Gonterman.