You really need a higher-resolution camera when things in real life look all pixellated and jaggy:

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What sorts of retro electronics can you retrofit to use modern electronics? All kinds of things, according to Retro Blog and the ‘related’ tags at Instructables:

In the 1970s, there was a lot of speculation about where all the new telecommunications technology was headed (The Confetti Generation is one of my favorites) — but here, with scans on Flickr*, is foresight of the internet, via Smithsonian Magazine, 1976:

* Why do people insist on uploading images of text and articles to Flickr? Aside from being a clunky way to share photos, it’s the worst way to share sequential or informational content. I almost didn’t want to link to this guy’s scans, because it’s the most horrible way to do what he was trying to do. Stop putting non-photos on Flickr, people.

Forced perspective at the Tower of Pisa can be fun — but it looks just a little crazy to everyone else but the cameraman:

Mark Twain wrote about a Mysterious Stranger — Satan (nephew to the real Satan) — whose purpose was to show humanity how worthless and inconsequential it really was. The book was edited after Twain’s death from several false-starts at a story; the book isn’t great, although this 1985 Claymation adaptation of the story strikes Twain’s sentiment home.

Plus it was good old-fashioned nightmare fuel. I saw it when I was quite young; while it didn’t terrify me, it did give me a certain insight…

Daniel Faraday, it seems, went on the wrong heading to the Island, thus being thrust back in time to shill for Subaru. And then his head exploded because he lost his Constant. Sad thing it is, being unstuck in advertising.

http://youtube.com/v/k7pmvP-PXTU

I was kinda disappointed at the lack of variety of alien-punching in the video (yes, we know Scotty’s a mean drunk when Tribbles are around), but it still gets a ‘B’ for originality.

Most groomers try to make the dog look more like what we think a dog is supposed to look like — and then there’s this kind of groomer:

Be sure to visit the slideshow…it’s…enlightening.

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