Vintage advertising for modern products
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Neat photoshop contest. Please sir, I would like to buy one of Mr. Nokia's Patent Mobile Telephonic Communicator.
Archive for June, 2008
Jesus in China: Life on the edge
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Chicago trib has a great article today about the Chinese church and its precarious relationship with Chinese law.
Buckminster Fuller: Creative wacko
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Great article in the NYTimes about Bucky Fuller, the geodesic dome guy. I really admire one of the last century's great inventors for the ideas he had, but I have to admit that he was also real nut ball.
Cary Grant?s super suit
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
America's favorite leading man had such an amazing suit in North by Northwest. No matter how many drunken car wrecks or biplane attacks it endured, it never frayed, got dirty, or even wrinkled.
Classic photographs: The Lego edition
Monday, June 9th, 2008
From Iwo Jima to Tienanmin Square. Lego minifigs in eerily familiar scenes.
McCain v. Obama on economy
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
CNNMoney looks at the economic promises of both candidates in a refreshingly hype-free way.
Command line for the web
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
goosh.org is a very cool DOS-style text interface for Google and Wikipedia services. It makes me want to try installing Wing Commander. At least I won't have to configure my graphics, sound and mouse hardware.
Get old news from the TimesMachine
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
The NYTimes has archived its newspapers from 1851 to 1922 online. It's the news as it was, complete with full page layouts and old timey advertising.