The Future In The News

As you can tell from the name of this small site, there are future news articles from the years 2020 - 2050. Some of these predictions actually make sense when you think about it. At least the ones from 2020. One prediction that I liked was the one titled "Can Paralyzed Walk in the Future?" from the year 2035.

News of Future
http://www.newsoffuture.com/

The Toaster is Hot!

Hey, this site is a "toasting" fun! It features a museum, vintage ads, FAQ, and other stuff. Lots of info. The articles section is great. Even though I really like this site, I wish that they had an archive for the vintage ads. They only show two ads per month or so..

Toaster Museum
http://www.toaster.org

Follow That Map (If You Can)

Just what the title says... a whole pile of strange maps. You wouldn't believe what's out there.

Strange Maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Plan 59 (Not Plan 9)

Plan 59 is the name of this virtual museum with many mid-century illustrations in 18 different categories. There is also a shop. Pretty cool and entertaining.

Plan 59 Museum
http://www.plan59.com/

The Hiroshima Museum

Warning: This site is may depressed you, but since it occurred during those retro decades, I decided to put it up. Not to mention that it has valuable information from the Japaneses' point of view. It's full of pictures and children's drawings (as the one above) of the aftermath, mostly related to the impact it made on the Japanese culture and families.

Hiroshima Museum
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0203_e/exhi_top_e.html

IHBFd

The Internet Hanna-Barbara Fashion Database. From the site: "IHBFDPro.com offers representation listings for over 44,000 people and contact details for over 8,800 companies." Good Source for cartoons, unfortunately, there is some profanity (for example, the Apache Chief page).

IHBFd
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/ihbfd.htm

Mr.Magoo and the Stag Beer

A long commercial of Mr. Magoo pushing for Stag Beer. Do you recognize the voice? That's Jim Backus, who played Thurston J. Howell III on "Gilligan's Island".



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf77ld5lLfQ
Update 1/4/10: video removed by user.

Who is David Szondy?

David Szondy is a freelance writer with a sense of humor. He has pretty cool stuff on his blog. Like black and white pictures with funny captions under neat them, Pulp Fiction, Science Fiction magazine covers and some odd stuff. Be aware though, the text is white over black background.

David Szondy
http://davidszondy.com/

The Alphaville

I used to live in NYC for a little while, and one of my favorite places was this little store called Alphaville. It has been a few years since. At the time they didn't have a website yet. But going to the store in person is more entertaining. They didn't have a whole lots of stuff, but I still enjoyed looking at all those little treasures. The space age items and the trinkets were the best. It probably has changed since I last went there, but I bet it's still worth a visit. So if you are in NYC I recommend you to check it out.

Alphaville
http://www.alphaville.com/

Get On My Vespa

An interesting collection of scooter ephemera from "culturesponge". Plenty of vintage.

Flickr: culturesponge's Vespa:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesponge/sets/1311606/