Futurama – 1939 World’s Fair vision of 1960
Fascinating what came true and what didn’t. Part 1:
And Part 2:
links for 2007-05-31
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Awesome!
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Um, yeah, I had to look up this word after reading it on a something awful article about anime. I am enlightened. Somewhat.
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The complete turn-by-turn maps as described on the Historic 66 website.
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Photographic Highlights of Route 66 in Illinois
Route 66 Mapping
The Mother Road: Historic Route 66 – a great information website has “Turn by Turn” maps that identify where Route 66 is, since some of the original road is no longer, and most of it isn’t marked with highway markers anymore.
Turn by Turn Route 66 in Google Maps – Some kind Google Earth enthusiast has taken the maps from the site above and plotted them out using Google Earth/Maps. Awesome!
Photographic Interests in Illinois along Route 66 – Someone else marked famous landmarks in Illinois via Google Earth. Nice, handy.
However, if you just want to follow along with the song – there’s a google earth map for that, too.
“I’m here to shoot a pilot”
Boing Boing is questioning whether this is actually true, but it seems to be making the rounds and has shown up on numerous news sites:
Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He’d arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as ‘pilot season’, when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a two-week frenzy of auditions and career make-or-breaks. When Figgis was being grilled by airport immigration, he was asked the purpose of his visit. Unthinking and tired after a long flight, Mike replied: ‘I’m here to shoot a pilot.’ After five hours in an interrogation cell (yes, really), he finally made it into town.
links for 2007-05-30
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Stop Homework is the blog of Sara Bennett, co-author of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It.
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Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem – more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse – can eventually lead to ci
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According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.
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They found that the women in the informed group had lost an average of 2 pounds, lowered their blood pressure by almost 10 percent, and were significantly healthier as measured by body-fat percentage, body mass index, and waist-to-hip ratio. These changes
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A pair of male flamingos have become foster parents after adopting an abandoned chick in Gloucestershire.
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attached a colored LED light to a magnet, throw it on a metal surface.
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A wi-fi scavenger hunt game – goal is to travel from one wi-fi connection to another…
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In the television industry (especially in North America), lower thirds refer to graphics that take up the lower area of the screen, though not necessarily the entire lower third portion of the screen as the name suggests.
links for 2007-05-29
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It never ends. But at least the idiocy is funny.
Big Things Photos – Back up and Running
My “Big Things” photo galleries are back up and running, finally, after some coding goofiness. In going through all the new photos, I realized I have hundreds of new ones to put online; I’m further behind on this project than I thought. But I have much easier ways to get them online, so that’s good.
I’ll point new things as I get them on the site.
Big Things In Indianapolis — Inflatables
2001 Midwest Big Things Road Trip
2004 Visit to Dinosaurland in Virginia
2005 Big Things In Louisville, Kentucky
Coming soon: 332 new “Big Things” photos, including our Big Things Road Trip to Kansas, and this summer, our Route 66 Roadtrip to California.
links for 2007-05-26
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Law Enforcement Equipment – Public Safety Equipment – Law Enforcement Uniforms. Noted because it’s how some people have modded their vehicles to be “urban camouflaged.”
OMG Ponies! (LOL Presidents)
Fark sponsors LOL presidents photoshop contest:
And also an lol presidents blog.
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