Vintage Ad Browser features 100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore, like these Joe Camel Ads. I’m suddenly taken back to my college women studies classes where hour long conversations about how the camel’s face looked like genitalia were common place (I KID YOU NOT).
Japanese Robotics Company Builds a Chucky Look-alike.
Few remain as 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns. I was looking at Centralia, PA on Google Earth and you can actually see the burnt-out coal seams. The Dan Aykroyd masterwork “Nothing But Trouble” is based on the plight of Centrailia PA.
Sichuan buttons: The flowers that electrocute your mouth. “The Sichuan button will zap your tongue like a battery — and that’s got some chefs buzzing “. Intriguing.
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything. Not quite “plastic aluminum”, but I’ll take any product that keeps stains off my clothes.
Smoke Monster From ‘Lost’ Given Own Primetime Spin-Off Series.
Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home.
Monster illustrations from ‘Yokai Jiten’. Japan does monsters best.
Jellyfish made of tape and LEDs.
Brace yourself. Japanese commercial featuring people dressed up as Star Wars characters for potted meat. Trivia: R2-D2 is actually filled with potted meat in case Luke gets hungry.
Pee & Poo, your new favorite toy!
A DEVO performance from 1973. I love the chimp masks.
CBC Radio 3 on the Free Music Archive (mp3).
Pain - Star Trek Remix. Edited scenes from Star Trek set to the electronic disco music.
Clips from Terminator set to the electronic disco music. And autotuned! From Pogomix.net which features lots of these movie scenes edited into songs type thangs.
Monster and the Stripper. More like a fire dancer and a caveman in a cage, but fun 1960s exploitation none the less.
Gus Visser and his Singing Duck. I have to wonder: was this was the guy’s job, or simply a hobby?
