Sep 30
Kodak may be "a walking corpse of a company" according to some
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Sep 26
After being invaded by Germany in the west and later by Soviet Russia in the east, the Polish government fled Warsaw but continued to fight from abroad. After Germany attacked Russia, the Russians decided to release their Polish prisoners of war, who then began re-forming into an army.
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Sep 25
Thanks to a donation from the Henson Foundation, on Tuesday, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and 19 other Muppets and well-loved characters gained their rightful place in history, entering into the collection of the Smithsonian Museum. As Kermit would say—hi-ho!
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Sep 23
So how does this whole world wide web thing work? Cables, man. Websites, h tee tee pees and computers. And it’s all a pretty new thing, right? Well not quite, the history of the web is a lot longer than you’d expect. John Allsopp of Web Directions created a timeline showing the "key dates, browsers, technologies and ideas in the history of the World Wide Web" that dates back to 1910 and goes right up until today. Even if you consider yourself a professional Internet surfer, you’ll probably learn a thing or two cruising through the timeline here. [Web Directions via The Presurfer]
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Sep 23
Some people collect baseball cards and others collect coins. Martin Howard, however, collects century-old typewriters. And boy is he good at it. The Toronto-based enthusiast has typewriters that looks like navigation instruments and typewriters that look like scales. But they all have one thing in common: They’re beautiful.
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Sep 20
Believe it or not, the history of Nintendo goes all the way back to 1889. And before you ask—no, they were not selling Mario figures carved from wood.
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Sep 18
Did an exotic actress from Vienna, considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in the 1940s, really invent wireless? Not exactly, but the non-sensationalized facts of the matter are no less fascinating, involving Hollywood, the World War II Axis Powers, and remote control technology.
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Sep 16
Last week we brought you inside the kooky but wonderful Holographic Studios
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Sep 16
Back in the 1930s the infographic scene was already humming with crazy products like the Histomap and its 4,000 years of visualized history
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Sep 12
The Little Film That Could: “Finish Line” Coming Into The Final Stretch on KickStarter
Posted in: Today's Chili
"Finish Line: The Rise and Demise of Off-Track Betting" is an indie
documentary currently in production. It’s a ‘Damon Runyon-esque"
real-life American saga real-life American saga that unfortunately doesn’t come with a Hollywood
happy ending. The shuttering of Off-Track-Betting (OTB) in New York
City plays out like a Greek Tragedy where over a 1000 employees had
their livelihoods, pensions and health benefits taken from them, while
Governor Cuomo of New York looked the other way.
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