Flashbacks

The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek

12.25.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Serling’s holiday classic starring Art Carney. Part 1 of 3. Fifty years old this year; original air date 12.23.2010.

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Pearl Harbor Day Attack

12.07.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Taken from a documentary about WWII, this is a short section about the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. [Reader's Digest Classic Collection-World War II Combat Chronicles ©MMIV Questar Inc.]

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Rod and Robby

11.29.2010

The legend Rod Serling with Robby the Robot, who made an appearance in the Twilight Zone episodes “Uncle Simon“, “The Brain Center at Whipples“, and “One for the Angels“. TIMELY AND RELATED: Robby played alongside Leslie Nielsen in “Forbidden Planet“.

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Interior Desecrations: Horrible Homes from the Brass Age of American Design

11.19.2010

M and I are in the middle of an endless jaunt backward down Memory Lane, paying particular attention to the depressing seventies. There are a few questions about the era that have been raised: What was the story with all the depressing television theme songs in the seventies? Was it a conspiracy theory? What was [...]

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Happy 12th birthday, jaced.com

11.16.2010

Where does the time go? It was a dozen years ago today that I hopped on over to (what is now Network Solutions) Internic.net and grabbed this domain. In no particular order, here are 12 notable things that happened in 1998: Google was founded. Apple unveiled the iMac. Microsoft released Windows 98. United States Department [...]

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25 Nostalgic Photos Comparing Past to Present

11.12.2010

WildAmmo has posted a radical selection of 25 photos that compare past snapshots of buildings, locations, structures, and people with the present day scene. These are all part of a larger Flickr collection called Looking into the Past by Jason Powell.

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Two years ago today

10.20.2010

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Tom Bosley RIP

10.19.2010

Happy Days star Tom Bosley, a.k.a. “Mr. C”, has died at 83. While best known for his portrayal of Mr. Cunningham, he’ll also be just as remembered for the Glad trash bag commercials. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s only been a couple days since the passing of [...]

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Barbara Billingsley RIP

10.17.2010

Barbara Billingsley, best known for her portrayal of June Cleaver on television’s white-picketed classic Leave it to Beaver, has died at the age of 94. Rest in peace, blood. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Stayin’ Alive in the Wall

10.08.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A delightful Pink Floyd Bee Gees Mashup by Wax Audio.

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Happy 50th birthday, Flintstones!

09.30.2010

Yabba dabba doo! The Flintstones turn 50 years old today. Appropriately enough, Google’s paying their own homage with the characteristically awesome doodle seen above. Those guys. While you’re here, you might as well revisit the classic intro to the TV show dedicated to our favorite modern Stone Age family: You need to a flashplayer enabled [...]

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

09.27.2010

It doesn’t get much more vintage than the Six Million Dollar Man intro from the ’70s: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Tempest long exposed

09.19.2010

A long exposure photograph of the Tempest arcade game. Rad. From a series of photographs at rosemariefiore.com.

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Google salutes Agatha Christie

09.16.2010

More awesomeness that you may have missed. Yesterday’s Google Doodle paid homage to Agatha Christie for her 120th birthday. This makes me think back to when I was about nine or ten years old when I took a trip with the family to the Grand Canyon. One night we stayed in for some TV and [...]

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Monster is gonna kick my ask

09.09.2010

A classic. “He… he will?” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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The Pac-Man Dossier

08.27.2010

You geeks looking for a turnkey time-killer? Look no further than the most complete and detailed study of Pac-Man possible. Includes the inside scoop on maze logic, cornering, areas to exploit, target tiles, intersections, Easter eggs, and the distinct behaviors of the four ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. Tons of stuff in there I [...]

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