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A visual history of SuperSoakers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:09:06 GMT

These were great on a hot summer afternoon. I had the XXP-175, which the site claims is the first “multi-barreled” of the line, and it seemed staggeringly huge at the time. I can’t remember which one my brother had — might have been this one.

Link: http://www.isoaker.com/Armoury/Analysis/SuperSoaker_tree_air_series.html

Shorpy

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:07:36 GMT

Historical photos in HD.

Link: http://shorpy.com/

Psi Chapter

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:56 GMT

A UW Madison fraternity from 1914 to the 1970s.

Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/NeedlesWaxman/PsiChapterOfThetaChiFraternity

Vintage microphones are pretty

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:34 GMT

Link: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/true_industrial_design_vintage_mics_9367.asp

Internet Power

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:54:19 GMT

The VHS-era web.

Link: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/03/17/internet.shtml

Is there hidden brain imaging in Renaissance masterpieces?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:25:51 GMT

Link: http://streetanatomy.com/blog/2008/01/22/hidden-brain-imaging-in-renaissance-masterpieces/

Top 10 Color Classical Reproductions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:22:48 GMT

Link: http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-color-classical-reproductions/

Hitchcock on Hitchcock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:51:16 GMT

Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5764312338833447645&q=hitchcock&total=46&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

Rethinking the Tunguska disaster

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:59:30 GMT

New supercomputer-powered models offer a different view of the impact, suggesting it might not have taken quite as big of a meteor as originally thought. Be sure to check out the movies linked in their sidebar for some stunning visualizations of some extremely complicated fluid dynamics.

Link: http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.html

The Bizarre Origins of Christmas

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:56:31 GMT

Link: http://www.cracked.com/article_15719_pagan-orgies-human-sacrifice-bizarre-origins-christmas.html

The transistor is 60 years old today

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:54:50 GMT

Link: http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/15/transister-creation-anniversary-oped-cx_fa_1215transistor.html

The New York skyline in 1901

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:50:16 GMT

Link: http://www.shorpy.com/new-york-city-1901?size=_original

Vintage Christmas wax

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:49:51 GMT

Recordings from the first quarter of the last century.

Link: http://paulfucito.blogspot.com/2007/12/vintage-christmas-wax-revisited.html

Historic Celestial Atlas Illustrations

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:31:24 GMT

A collection of links to historical star charts.

Link: http://www.metafilter.com/67418/Historic-Celestial-Atlas-Illustrations

The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:01:37 GMT

A history of leaded gasoline.

Link: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=932

The old world’s tallest buildings in 1884

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:48:14 GMT

Link: http://deputy-dog.com/2007/12/02/the-old-worlds-tallest-buildings-1884/

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:28:34 GMT

A movie depicting 1939’s vision of technological utopia. Mostly this means an abundance of electric dishwashers, and fewer communists.

Link: http://www.archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939

Amazing Coincidences in Linguistics

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:19:49 GMT

Link: http://members.aol.com/yahyam/coincidence.html

Rise of the Video Game

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:02:51 GMT

The Discovery Channel has put together a five part series. Looks interesting.

Link: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/video-game/about/about.html

Nostradamus biography

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:59:00 GMT

Quote: “There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy, or he did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks.”

Link: http://timeqq.blogspot.com/2007/11/nostradamus.html

A Minor History of Giant Spheres

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:40:08 GMT

Link: http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/27/foer.php

East German Type

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:38:15 GMT

As in “typography.” Just preparing for my trip.

Link: http://pingmag.jp/2007/10/05/veb-typoart-the-east-german-type-betriebsstatte/

The Atari 2600 is thirty years old

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:17:07 GMT

My first console. Sniff.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/happy-30th-birthday-atari-2600/

Jon Stewart on Balance in the Middle East

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:51:26 GMT

Deadwood: 1888

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:20:57 GMT

The sleepy little town of Deadwood, South Dakota in 1888.

Link: http://www.shorpy.com/node/595?size=_original

Irony, to a T

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:43:17 GMT

A history of the ironic t-shirt.

Link: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/irony_to_a_t.php

Leave It to Beaver

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:41:04 GMT

A freeze-framed note to Ward is finally read word for word.

Link: http://www.shorpy.com/leave-it-to-beaver

Behind the scenes at New York's Natural History Museum

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:53:02 GMT

My brother tells me it’s quite a sight.

Link: http://daneyalmahmood.com/justinecooper_past_images.html?img=4#

The 20 Greatest Historical Myths

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:02:23 GMT

I’m not sure they’re the “greatest” but they’re certainly some of the most widely spread myths in history.

Link: http://humanitiestalks.blogspot.com/2007/03/20-greatest-historical-myths.html

The James Bond title sequences

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:29:55 GMT

All 21 of them in their appropriated YouTube goodness.

Link: http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/2006/11/video-james-bond-title-sequences.html

Population of the Largest U.S. Cities: 1790 to 1990

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:29 GMT

Historical rankings — it’s fun to watch Chicago grow between 1840 and 1860

Link: http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027.html

10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:23 GMT

Ah, that’s where I put my list

Link: http://www.10000reasons.org/

America in Color, 1939-1943

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:17 GMT

Beautiful pics from the last century

Link: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

Compu-Promo

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

Lileks take on ‘60s computing

Link: http://www.lileks.com/institute/compupromo/

Welcome to Sun City, Peru

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:21 GMT

Turns out the sun-worshipping Incas lived under the greatest concentration of UV radiation on Earth

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9197&feedId=online-news_rss20

Google Trends

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:10 GMT

Graph the volume of your favorite search terms

Link: http://www.google.com/trends

Microsoft's first web page

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

Where do you want to go today? 1994.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm

A brief history of hard drives

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:26 GMT

Amazing to think it once took 50 24 inch platters to store 5mb of data

Link: http://news.com.com/2300-1010_3-6031405-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

The first computer bug

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:20 GMT

If you didn’t know, it really was a bug

Link: http://history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566k.jpg

China beat Columbus to it, perhaps

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:16 GMT

A Chinese map of the Americas from the early 1400s?

Link: http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5381851

Outrageous firsts in television history

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:22 GMT

Television nostalgia for the list-oriented

Link: http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2005/12/outrageous_firs_2.html