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Reshared post from Sean Cowen
A Collection of Hard-to-Find Retro-Futuristic Images from the Golden Age
It's funny - these are the sorts of images that I remember most from my childhood. My dad was a huge sci-fi fan, and he was always getting all of the cool sci-fi magazines and digests of the day. I vividly remember Isaac Asimov's digest and these images remind me of many of the ones I'd see in the magazines. I have to say that I am addicted to this entire style of 'retro-futurism' and this is an other-worldly collection of great images and artwork. Wow. Let your imagination roam and enjoy this wild thrill ride!
The Golden Age of Retro-Future (1930s - 1970s)
We continue to update our extensive collection of the most inspiring and hard-to-find retro-futuristic images. As usual, we try to stay away from the well-known American pulp and book cover illustrations and instead focus on the artwork from some rather unlikely sources: Soviet and Eastern Bloc "popular tech & science" magazines, German, Italian, British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature - all from the Golden Age of Retro-Future (from 1930s to 1970s).
via/http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/02/retro-future-to-stars-part-3.html
Brilliant and enlightening pro-Scooby Doo rant — well, essay, really. Via +Boing Boing via +Chad Towle
Reshared post from Nathan Lamont
from http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitalguides/voynich.html, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, via +Boing Boing
Reshared post from Nathan Lamont
I happen to love this characterization of the internet:
"The Internet is basically like being at a house party and trying to find the bathroom and opening up a door to a room where a bunch of kids are playing a game or doing a drug or having an orgy (metaphorically) or something and you get all flustered and say, 'Oh, my God, I’m sorry!' and they all look at you like, 'You pervert,' and you quickly slam the door shut. Everywhere you go on the Internet there are rooms you don’t understand, people playing games you don’t know the rules to, teenagers doing drugs you’ve never heard of and can’t even pronounce. And you just walk through the halls of this house party, aging in fast forward, until you open the one last door at the end of the hallway and it’s Death. Ha, ha."
Funny column (summary: 28-year-author feels old because… internet).
Reshared post from Matt Cutts
Head of the "webspam team" at Google, Matt Cutts answers the question, "does Google consider search engine optimization to be spam?"
Reshared post from Osvaldo Doederlein
Informed summary of Dart (Google's new web-oriented programming language)
Bigger Planet's 2004 Macworld Game Hall of Fame member, Starbase Defender, presented here for posterity.
Bigger Planet's Ares, originally written circa 1997, lives again, thanks to the open source effort of Chris Pickel at arescentral.org.
