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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.