Somebody bought over 5000 slides from a Mountain Brook (Birmingham), Alabama estate for $150 and posted a number of them on Flickr
He's posted 177 of them, from the '50s and '60s, including many national parks, '64 Words Fair, '65 Seattle, '61 Idlewild Airport and much more, including a graduation at Oberlin College in '59. The cars and street clothes are cool and the quality of the pictures is befitting someone that can afford an expensive camera. ;)

great link. Very good quality and all interesting.

Thanks, Bruce. :thumb:

What a nice vacation. I enjoyed all 183 pictures. What a steal for $150. I've been to many of the places in the current set. Of course I could name the street intersection for most of the Seattle pics. That is the most appealing tour of New York I've ever seen. I kept expecting to see Rock Hudson or Doris Day stroll across the frame.

I've been most of those places, also. Interesting to the changes.
I vividly remember the World's Fair in '64, so those pics jarred my memory.
I had to laugh at the Idlewild '62/JFK'65 pictures, nothing like that today. There was actually open, vacant, unused, parking spots. :lol:

NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW

That being said , check this out !!!

http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html

Surprisingly entertaining online billiards.

You can turn off the music, and the product placement doesn't interfere with the gameplay.

Toons, the world's first hypertext encyclopedia of toons. Very cool. :D

Bands
 

History of Band Names Any day I learn something new about Jethro Tull is a good day.

Christ I'm bored today.

This might help with your taxes (with sound). :D

Help with your oral fixation~work safe~
 

For those with this type of oral fixation

Congressional Biographies
 

Congressional Biographical Directory searchable by position (congress, president, etc), name, party, or state. The database goes back to the Contintental Congress.

??Valuable Web Space ??
 

I don't even know what to say

(SFW)

that's hot

I don't know....it bothers me that a 4 star general is a pussy.;)

This is the most annoying popup I've ever had to endure. I clicked on a link to watch a video, and instead of the promised content, I started hearing this C-grade salesman and his lame ass pitch. Took me forever to go through my taskbar buttons and find the offender.

Not really worth clicking on -- I just wanted to vent.

Just read this very positive article in today's SF Chronicle about this new website, www.imow.org

Looking forward to exploring it...

i tried. . . she just keeps shrugging her shoulders all cute-like. can she make a sandwich?

*shrugging shoulders*

Because Bobby Carburetor is easily the coolest guy on the face of the earth (who plays drums) ...

You can again hear the REAL version of All You Zombies. It is nothing like that watered down piece of crap that the rest of the country got with their MTV.

I've been listening to Scared by Science on repeat for the last half-hour or so. I don't usually do this with a single song, but I haven't heard it since some time in the early '80s, and it was always a favorite.

Please view and listen to this excellent site.

National Association of Manufacturers blog. Every saturday they post a new video tour of some factory or manufacturing process.
Like the "Industry on Parade" films they use to show on TV when the ball game was rained out.:D

try things like

booty
fight
lick
suck

actually i think thats on the VB2 one

etc and anything else dirty

A poster made up with/from using the entire script from Reservoir Dogs. Very cool.:D

Very, very... Hope they ship to Europe...

I think I'll try this new linking feature.

What "they" used to think a home computer would be in 2004. http://users.net1plus.com/scottm/HomeComputer.jpg

Wait, you mean yours doesn't look like that?:lol:

I would like to know what the giant wheel was for. I doubt they predicted "Grand Theft Auto".

I would like to know what the giant wheel was for. I doubt they predicted "Grand Theft Auto".

whell that would be WAY better than the SUCKY ASS little NON Linear steering wheel that I bought !!

That was actually a Fark photoshop contest entry, but since then has been sent along as real by many many more people than sent it along as fake. It's taken on a life of its own.

Wasn't that image of a submarine trainer or something?

I think it's part of the set from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

"with teletype interface and the fortran language..."

so naive

When I saw It, the caption was not future but early computer. I even sent it to UT for IOtD..... for which he slapped me about the head and shoulders. :lol:

Sometimes education is painful.

Capitol Steps. Very funny.

Cooler than GoogleEarth, higher resolution in a lot of cases.

I was able to identify individual cars from the parking lot at work.

It's that good.

It's clear alright. But the picture for my area is years out of date.

Oh that is too goddamn much! After looking at my house the only question is, who left the garage doors open?

Well, heck...I can identify individual cars from the parking lot at work. Now, identifying individual cars from *space*. That's a good trick. :lol:

How do I get a picture? I'm not in the database I guess

I had the same problem, Brian. Look in the upper left corner. You'll see "road" and then "aerial". Click on "aerial".

dont seem to good for australia. in fact...its shit house

I want one of these. It's a small remote controlled drone. Spy plane. With video camera on board. The LAPD is beginning to use them to supplement expensive helicopters.


Of course, if everyone gets one of these, I may just have to research how to build a high powered radio signal jamming device. Not that I would ever build an illegal device like that.

I buy flowers at least once every two weeks for my g/f and happened on this link http://www.click2houston.com/housean...72/detail.html having to do with preservation. i thought i'd give it a try and also share it with y'all......

That's for growing them with stunted stems and normal blooms. They're like kids....once thet're grown, it's too late. :D

Well, you could just take up kite-flying as a hobby. Kites as in fighting kites, with glass and metal coated strings. Think of it as a poor mans barrage balloon.:cool:

Give someone a little piece of the old farm!!

*scroll down the page and on the left is the "Testimonials" section. Check out the women's pool team.

What about http://www.idleaire.com/?

I have been looking at this for months now. It beats idling all night, saves fuel and my hearing, offers a few bennies to go along with it all.

All for the low low price of $1.85/hr.

Opinions?

Sounds like a good idea when it's available. Of course all the options are to try to get you to spend more but that's up to you....they only provide the temptation. :lol:

It has to be better than running that big ole diesel all night. What other costs to you over the hourly rate?

I have seen these yellow tubes hanging at truck stops befor , I figured it was heat and AC but not all the other stuff , SLICK Idea !!!

I have used idleaire and I loved it. phone, cable, and internet. Muy betchen.

That's the only cost to me. The diesel can cost over $2.50/hr to idle depending on the cost of fuel. And if I get my idle hours down far enough (Big Brother keeps track) I can get a fuel and idle hour bonus of up to $50/month

That will pay for the Idleaire time right there. I have to pay for phone calls and internet usage of course but if all I want is cool/warm air, I'm all set. I decided to give it a try and bought the window adaptor (mandatory) for $10 and put $30 prepaid on my account. I can add to it when I activate the umbilical with no charges for that internet transaction.

Brian

Bigger and better game
 

This guy is going for a new house and he started with only one red paper clip

Jesus help us, Elspode......that's criminal!!

Now where was that bookmark button?:yum:

Surprisingly comprehensive quotes site.

I was trying to track down a news article related to a local murder tonight, and found this site. It has some obscure stuff ... quotes from one of the most sleazy lawyers in my county. Pretty amazing, really.

Ha, I found this one amusing...

http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/200...onspiracy.html

A Spherical Cellular Automaton Very cool, if you have Java. :D

OMG xoB. ive had that theory for ages but never heard anything about it elsewhere until just now. ive spent so many nights trying to explain that the earth is one organism ( the logical next step in life from a multi-cellular organism) for a long time. now i know im not the only one!