Category: Media
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Phreak Me Baby
I was talking to some people over the weekend about phone phreaking (early hackers who explored the phone system and figured out how to make free calls, etc.). I mentioned Cap’n Crunch about whom I’d heard, but knew very little. I got interested, so I did a bit of searching and came across a page…
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Fading Ad Campaign
Frank Jump has an interesting project photographing vintage advertising murals. Fading Ad Campaign is a photographic project documenting vintage mural ads on building brickfaces in New York City spanning nearly a century. It has become a metaphor for survival for me since, like myself, many of these ads have long outlived their expected life span.…
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Shake Your Grove Thing…
What can you possibly say about Stealth Disco? I laughed, I cried, I got down with my bad self* Thanks for the point MeFi. *Disclaimer – all statements are hyperbole. In point of fact, I did not laugh or cry or get down with my self bad or otherwise. I did maybe chuckle a bit…
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I Gotta Get Me Some Dolls
The Doll Photo that Steven Frank found is spectacular. It’s almost enough to make me want to start collecting dolls — or more likely to start visiting his Disturbing Auctions Daily site on a regular basis.
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ASCII Movies
Wow. Somebody must have a lot of time on their hands. Thanks BoingBoing.
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Hey, I don’t remember that
It’s been so long since I’ve seen an unedited version of Animal House that when I got the DVD the other day, I was shocked to see a giant dildo gag in one of the first scenes. Giant Dildos in 1962? Well, OK, 1978, but still. The movie is as funny and raunchy as you…
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Not Sure
I’m not sure if the style of art over at IdealWord is exactly my cup of tea. The whole images juxtaposed with text thing feels like the kind of thing I want to find interesting, but ultimately, I just don’t respond to it. Of course, I never really got Dadaism either, so what do I…
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League of Nations? Really?
It seems to be way too focused on the 20th century. I mean 3 of 200 words dedicated to the League of Nations? That just seems to be out of all reasonable scale and proportion to me. Wasn’t that just a failed blip on the face of the globe? And while I’m at it, “Taxation…
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Anonymous Message Server
The Anonymous Message I got wasn’t very interesting. Just a snippet of text about chicken feet and pleasure. Still, it seems like a fun idea. You leave a message for somebody, and then you get to see the message the last person left. Give it a whirl and see what you think. If you get…
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Bleep…Bleep…Bleep
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…