YouTube's Greatest Hits From Fortune!

It was fun to see some of them again. Such hilarious clips! 'The Evolution Of Dance' in cracked me up. I chuckled when watched Charlie Bit Me' and 'OK Go: Here It Goes Again' and the 'Man Dancing'they were definitely amazing. I was at awe. Isn't it amazing the creative ideas that some people come with? I would have never thought of these ideas, and I certainly wouldn't be dancing on that huge rock in between these two mountains. It was very inventive, but scary for me to watch it! I'd have a hell of a vertigo.

YouTube's Greatest Hits
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/technology/0907/gallery.youtube_top_videos.fortune/

The Virtual Pollack Advertising Museum

Nice collectible items by Michael Pollack. He owns this huge virtual museum. For over 30 years, Pollack has been collecting advertising items. As well prime commercial, industrial and multi-family real estate projects. He collected so much that he needed to build a new facility building to house his collectibles. His 110 Baranger displays and over 7,000 advertising items are now rest in a special section of a 7,000 square foot area inside the 31,000 square foot building. The rest of building is for his corporation offices.

Even though the museum is authentic (apparently not accessible to the public?) and is located in Mesa, AZ, you can only see it virtually on line and photographs.

The categories are: banks, baranger, lunch boxes, slot machines, tap handles and misc.

Pollack Advertising Museum
http://www.pollackmuseum.com

Anti - Alcohol Posters From Those Old Soviet Days

Check out these Soviet anti alcohol that were published during the propaganda era.

The Museum Of Anti Alcohol Posters
http://www.tululuka.net/alco

The Most Incredible Human Feats!

The Human Marvels site is about true and incredible unique human feats from the past to present. The blogger tells us that his site is about "Presenting peerless prodigies of physical phenomina you may call them oddities freaks or monstrosities - whatever you will- but I call them incredible, persevering, resourceful, and marvelous human beings. I chronicle their inspirational stories of triumph over nature, fate, and the judgment of man."


One example is the image above, it shows a man leaning on a stool or table. If you look at his shoes, you'll notice a very tiny woman standing next to him. Yeah, I didn't notice her either at first. Her name is Pauline Muster also known as Princess Pauline. She was born in February 26, 1876 in Ossendrecht in the Netherlands. On the Guinness Book of World Records she is considered the smallest woman in the world at just one foot and 11.2 in height. Her story is incredible. To read more about her, check her out under a category called "dwarfism".

The Human Marvels
http://thehumanmarvels.com

Dig Your Magazine

A nice looking and organized blog that has historical photographs of magazines covers. When you click on the image, you'll see short stories from the magazine. that are related to the popular culture at the time. The site describes its goal as "exploring the history & the power of popular culture".

The Pop History Dig
http://www.pophistorydig.com

Blog - Chair Blog

Wow, I had no idea you can write so much about chairs. There are alot of interesting ones. Many of them are art. There are also chairs designed by famous architectural designer. What is a blog without pictures? My favorite categories are the "chair art", "armhair", "baby chair" (check out the stylish baby lounger), "chair" and the "bench".

Chair Blog
http://www.chairblog.eu/

Blog - St. Mexican Vintage Ads

A blog in Spanish with Mexican ads. I don't speak nor read Spanish, but I can tell you the ads are interesting and cool. Many of them are American products. I think that some of them are American ads in a Spanish but I am not certain. It's nice to see ads in other languages.


sr. mexicant vintage ads
http://mexicovers1.blogspot.com/

Find Your Survival Kit

An interesting store that carries all kind of survival kits, such as pet, earthquake, pandemic flu and more. A pretty useful site.



http://www.moreprepared.com/

Smoking Is Bad But The Cards Are Cool

These are cigarette cards from the NYPL Digital Library that date back to the 19th century to early 20's century when the nicotine's harm was not widely known yet. The alphabetical list is huge and is due to the large amount of cards not to mention the number of the themes that are featured. They are so different from each other too. Whoa! Some examples of how different they are: Kings and Queens of England, Kodak, Jockeys, Kensitas Flowers, Indian women, Happy family, Fables of Aesop, Henry and The Inns of Court. I have not seen them all, but so far I really liked the "Famous Building" series. To learn about the history of these cards click on the second or third link below (they are both the same url).

Cigarette Cards
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgtitle_tree.cfm?level=1&title_id=108805

Cigarette Cards Collection History
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all&collection=ABCsofCigaretteCards&col_id=161

Or a shorter url:
http://tinyurl.com/c5pf2e

Flickr- Retromod's Vinyl Set

Retromod has three pages of vintage vinyl albums. Some of these sure have bad covers which made more fun to look at.


Flickr Retromod
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12028474@N02/sets/72157601780812316/

Or
http://tinyurl.com/kkkm38