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Another Stupid Newsreel! I Hate The News.

The Whelk — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:50:10 -0800

We visited Weirdo Video back in 07 for propaganda films, but the YouTube channel has been steadily updating with yesterday's ephemera. Why not enjoy some vintage newsreels about STRIKES! SULTANS! SUEZ! SAN FRANSISCO! or some FITNESS FADS!

Old print ads

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:57:31 -0800

This Livejournal contains many vintage advertisements.

Time to feel old!

The Whelk — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:21:57 -0800

Youtube user Thepeterson puts together collections of the major radio hits, movies, video games, and technology of a given year. So why not take a time machine trip to the media landscape of : 1997, 1999, and 2002

40,000,000 dead at home, but our boys won the war anyway!

empath — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:40:35 -0800

The 36-Hour War. A look at the future of nuclear warfare, from a 1945 issue of Life Magazine

Scarfolk: One visit is not enough

Jimbob — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:35:35 -0800

Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." Join their Learn To Swim program, and enjoy the song that won 2nd place in the 1974 Scarfolk Harvest Festival, Dormin Slowly Died With The Radio On.

The Book Covers of Yesterday's Worlds of Tomorrow, Today!

barnacles — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:48:05 -0800

Create and customize your own Golden Age of Sci-fi book covers with The Pulp-O-Mizer! It's not quite as customizable as it could be, but a little effort gets results that are close enough to old school to be fun. (and fortunately, the Pulp-O-Mizer is entirely safe when used as directed)

Alternate pressing L and R as fast as you can to fluff these pillows.

gamera — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:59:26 -0800

Downton Abbey for the SNES. (SLYT, sadly not a real game. via tor.com)

Son is clearly going to grow up to be a Bucky the Beaver furry

acb — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:03:53 -0800

Vintage Home Computer Ads Revisited

THE BOSOM BUDDIES OF WASTE

The Whelk — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:05:37 -0800

“During the 1920s, the British firm Parker-Holladay created a fictional character named Bill Jones. Mr. Jones’ dispensed his friendly advice to British clerical workers through colorful lithographic posters emblazoned with his get-right-to-the-point maxims." Why not enjoy this collection of can-do, yes-sir business motivational posters before you head back to work?

Ghost of Christmas Past? Pac Man just ate her.

radwolf76 — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:26:42 -0800

Electronic Toys From Holidays Long Past (274 picture SL imgur gallery)

the return of pantyhose

flex — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:01:35 -0800

"Reading comments on any article about pantyhose, you’d think we were talking about the Gaza strip, not flimsy tubes of nylon. Trends come and go... But there’s something about pantyhose that’s oddly divisive." Autumn Whitefield-Madrano on The Beheld with Hosed: Conservatism and the Return of Pantyhose.

And though I don’t find pantyhose particularly uncomfortable, it’s not exactly comfortable either—again falling into line with conservatism, the idea that maybe women shouldn’t be too comfortable with their bodies. Still... I’m going to stick with ’em. For here is my conservative little secret: Pantyhose, to me, are one of many symbols of womanhood. My mother didn’t wear pantyhose, but I remember visiting her mother when I was a kid and eagerly accepting a pair of nylon knee-high castoffs that I figured would have to do until I was old enough to wear full-on big-girl pantyhose. Which I started doing in 8th grade, for special occasions: I loved feeling encased in this tight, stretchy stuff that somehow didn’t look tight but just looked...finished, making me feel finished, giving me a sense of finesse that I lacked otherwise. It does that for me still: I happily go bare-legged in the summer, but come fall, slipping on a pair of pantyhose is an adult version of putting on my back-to-school wardrobe. Pantyhose means I’m ready; it means I’m in public, wanting to be seen not as a prolonged adolescent who still sleeps on a futon and wrinkles her nose at broccoli, but as a professional. As an adult, as a woman who isn’t afraid to take herself a little seriously.

Sarah Haskins (formerly of Target Women):

Yes, I'm a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose. To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition. We’re in a weird generation, right? Our moms were forced to grapple with that definition more immediately, and I think it’s changed as we’ve grown up. The core issue ‘how do I fight bias against me because of my gender’ is still there but has gotten more complicated and wrapped into all kinds of identity issues about how you present yourself as a woman and I pretty much think it’s your choice. And fuck pantyhose.*

Kate in the Middle - Why I still wear pantyhose (oh, the horror!) The Beauty Boomer - Pantyhose: What's with all the hate? She Can't Be Serious - You Can’t Make Me Wear Pantyhose Again, Kate Middleton! The Shape of X - The Nylon Hurtin' Tracy Clark-Flory - The irony of my feminist photo shoot: "I posed for a magazine spread with young female activists. Many of us ended up in Spanx and painful high heels". The Frisky responds - Feminists Can Wear Spanx Too Wall Street Journal - Bare-Legged Ladies: Hosiery Reveals Office Divide Feminist Legal Theory - Pantyhose and Flip Flops at Law Firms Style Goes Strong - Where Do You Stand on Pantyhose? Alison Doyle - Should You Wear Pantyhose to a Job Interview? You Look Fab - Bare legged with blemished skin: yay or nay? Bridgette Raes - Men in Tights: The Truth About Men Who Wear Pantyhose Feminist Fatale - "Real men" like to get Spanx'd: masculinity, body image and advertising How About We - That Awkward Thing Where You Hook Up With Someone While Wearing Spanx CoolHunting - Polymorph: "Feminist Katya Usvitsky explores 'the malleability of the female body' through pervasive pantyhose" The Social Life of Secondhand Clothes - Femme Feminism: Is Wearing the Past a Step Back for Women? Already Pretty - The Jiggle Stephanie Dolgoff - Of Two Minds, One Body previously on MeFi: pantyhose during WWII - crafting with nylons previously on AskMeFi: Are pantyhose really necessary for a job a interview? - Small blemishes on legs; pantyhose to work?

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

The Whelk — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:55:51 -0800

Spend an hour tooling around 1920s-Era NYC via the magic of video

"Things that were once completely normal now seem totally surreal."

oulipian — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:40:56 -0800

Innovative and extraordinarily talented British animator Run Wrake is perhaps best known for the short films Rabbit (previously, details) and The Control Master (previously). Run passed away suddenly just a few weeks ago, less than a year after having been diagnosed with cancer. He was 47. Here is an interview with Run from APEngine. There are tributes to the artist's work on Cartoon Brew, Skwigly, Curtis Brown, and Animation World Network. You can find more work on Run's YouTube and Vimeo accounts. One of Run's final works was Down With The Dawn (one of many collaborations with musician Howie B.), inspired in part by the tests that resulted in his cancer diagnosis.

But no one ever cared about the cloth map they got for a game that wasn’t any good.

griphus — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:47:34 -0800

Kickstarter success stories have so far been firmly rooted in nostalgia, not innnovation. We’re seeing some of the biggest talent in the industry openly abandoning the ambition of innovation, and we’re paying them to do it.

Kicking It Old School: The Peril Of Kickstarter Nostalgia

An Ideal Boy

vidur — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:40:22 -0800

Blast from the past: scans of posters from schools in India. That's all.

Take Those Damned Goggles Off

The Whelk — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:37:39 -0800

Television Without Pity re-capper Jacob Clifton has written a short steampunk story for Tor.com. “There’s a level on which the story is an indictment of using steampunk as a fashion or trend. It came about because I wanted to see what would happen if you substituted Jane Austen for Jules Verne in the steampunk equation...” The Commonplace Book

...magazines depicting lesbianism, homosexuality, sodomy, transvestism, sadism, bestiality, masochism - all the abnormal perversions!

loquacious — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:16:38 -0800

The Citizens for Decent Literature want you to join their fight against PRINTED POISON. (possibly NSFW.)

Live Retro Sci-Fi Radio Comic Book Stage Show

TheSecretDecoderRing — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:23:42 -0800

"In a genre of its own—Live-Action Graphic Novel—The Intergalactic Nemesis saga is a hilarious, uplifting adventure of heroes-by-circumstance overcoming impossible odds. But the telling is what makes the experience of The Intergalactic Nemesis so incredibly unique: while three actors, one Foley artist, and one keyboardist perform all the voices, sound effects and music, more than 1,250 hand-drawn, full-color, hi-res, blow-your-mind comic-book images blast from the screen, all performed live." "To set the stage: It's 1933, there's a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, an evil hypnotist, a time-traveling librarian and alien sludge monsters. The radio play, says producer and director Jason Neulander, started simply, with scripts, a few actors and some crazy noises." - NPR Show excerpt Conan O'Brien February appearance National tour promo More background via Wikipedia

George Best at the L.A. Aztecs

marienbad — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:13:50 -0800

Some great retro images of George Best during his time with the L.A. Aztecs in 1976. Includes this wonderful image of Best and Pele - whats not to like about it? As the article writer says: "George Best. The NASL. adidas retro kit. Pelé in a coral suit.......To be honest, you could probably shoot us now..."

Junkyard Silver.

gamera — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:52:26 -0800

Chromeography is a tumblr devoted to images of chrome: the lettering, logos, and ornaments adorning old automobiles (and bicycles and cameras and appliances).

Where Do We Go From Here?

The Whelk — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:01:12 -0800

SF author and Mefi's Own Charles Stross talks about the future of "big idea" Science Fiction: If SF's core message (to the extent that it ever had one) is obsolete, what do we do next?

Mega Man Tape

reenum — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:12:47 -0800

From 1990: A 12 year old, armed with an NES, video camera and VHS recorder, films a walk through on how to beat Mega Man. (SLYT)

Whiz Kids

zarq — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:25:35 -0800

In the early 80’s, personal computers were a new innovation. Films like WarGames made it seem as if a kid with a keyboard could hack into anything: a school or corporate mainframe, NORAD, the US nuclear arsenal or your neighborhood bank. Hoping to capitalize on this, in 1983 CBS premiered a show which could have been considered WarGames’ intellectual successor. It featured a group of resourceful kids who solved crimes by hacking and cracking, led by Matthew Laborteaux, child star of Little House on the Prairie, and advised by a Gavilan SC-toting, mustachioed reporter played by Max Gail, formerly of the show Barney Miller. Whiz Kids lasted only a single season: 18 episodes, but all of them live on in cyberspace, on YouTube. Complete episode links contained within. Wikipedia: ”Activities included things like war dialing (one kid even mentions WarGames), editing hexadecimal machine code in a hex editor, brute force password cracking, denial-of-service attacks, emulation, facial recognition, speech recognition and speech synthesis, image enhancement, social engineering, and even computer dating. In almost every episode, the kids (sometimes at the instigation of Farley) perform what would be considered serious criminal acts within a few years of the show airing (if not during its airing); the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was first passed in 1984."
Unfortunately, the quality of the episodes isn't perfect. They were obviously transferred to digital format from a tape recording. Episode 1: "Programmed for Murder" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 2: "Fatal Error" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 3: "Deadly Access" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 4: "Candidate for Murder" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 5: "A Chip off the Old Block" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 6: "Airwave Anarchy" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 7: "Return of the Big Rocker" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 8: "The Wrong Mr. Wright" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 9: "Red Star Rising" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 10: "The Network" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 11: "Watch Out!" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 12: "Amen to Amen-Re" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 13: "Maid in the USA" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 14: "The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 15: "The Sufi Project" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 16: "Father's Day" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 17: "Altaira" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Episode 18: "May I Take Your Order Please?" Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 There were also two crossovers with the show Simon and Simon, one on each show. Here's a video of the full Simon and Simon episode, at Hulu.

Go right, my child.

d1rge — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:54:23 -0800

Go right. [SLYT] [via]

CRASH AND BURN

The Whelk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:59:42 -0800

The Onion's AV Club Asks: Just How Prescient Was Hackers Anyway?