I Love The (18)90's!

The iRetrofone Base is a fully-functional, stationary iPhone dock with working handset and complete compatibility with USB cable. If you've got a pocketful of ha'pennies burning a hole in your jodhpurs, it's yours for the taking. (Top-hat hat tip, Bonnie A.)

Steampunk Washington is one of any number of "enhanced" currency available for viewing at Defaced Dollars.

Oh Man, I Hope She Doesn't See This

(via Bits and Pieces)

What in the actual hell did I just watch here?

Second Life race scene from CSI:NY

But This Post Goes To Eleven

Happy Nigel Tufnel Day!

Make sure you turn the amp all the way up to 11 today.

 

You can also visit the Facebook group Declare 11/11/11 Nigel Tufnel Day, though it's kind of the eleventh hour to get that legislation passed.

This Is Spinal Tap - These Go To Eleven

Nightmare Fuel

'Cause you weren't planning on sleeping anytime in the next, oh say, two weeks, were you? A collection of truly creepy images of vintage ventriloquist dummies is on display at How To Be A Retronaut.

Meet My Mustache Mini-Me

The MOUSTAIR Tumblr tries to clear some of the Huhwuzzitnow? out of the air with this tagline:

Where men meets moustaches meets hair meets moustaches meets hair meets MOUSTAIR.

Or something. (via Copyranter)

He Thinks He's People!

Some dog-themed photos from a favorite timesink of mine, Shorpy.

Semper Fido: 1925
Remember when Tom Berenger traveled back in time to join the experimental canine/Marine unit? Yeah, me neither.

The Smoking Dog: 1927

Speaking of smoking dogs...

Walls Come Tumbling Down

Explosive Breach of Condit Dam from Andy Maser on Vimeo.

On October 26th, a hole was blasted in the base of 125' tall Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington. In less than 2 hours, the reservoir behind the dam drained completely and the White Salmon flowed unimpeded by a dam for the first time in 100 years.

The time lapse near the end of the video and the amount of built-up silt released is quite amazing!

More pics and information at Andy Maser's White Salmon Restored: A Timelapse Project, where two remote cameras stationed around Condit Dam will be shooting still images every day for the next several years. When stitched together as a video sequence, these images will provide a never before seen view of large-scale dam removal and river recovery.




The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller formed The Style Council in 1983. This political pop blast came from the 1985 release Our Favourite Shop (US title: Internationalists).

As If You Needed Yet Another Reason

..to "Just Say No" (via Daily Dawdle)

Goo-Goo Googly Eyes

Magic: The Gathering is serious business. Unless, you know, someone pastes googly-eyes on all the cards. A few from the wonderful new Tumblr blog Magic Cards With Googly Eyes.

Why you should never type "Google" into Google. Not even as a joke.




SNL - Christopher Walken: Indoor Gardening Tips From A Man Who's Very Scared Of Plants. Includes many googly-eyes.




Flickr set of random items with googly-eyes attached.

Morning Jukebox

Some surprisingly still-fresh bubblegum from 1974 with Reunion's novelty hit "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)". The lyrics are a fast patter of '50s, '60s, and '70s disc jockeys, musicians, songwriters, record labels, song titles and lyrics.

As far as I know, there was no "video", so to speak, made at the time, but this is one of the better current ones compiled from photos to accompany the lyrics. If you've got a nimble tongue and enough lung capacity (you'll probably find yourself running out of breath long before you run out of words), you can take a crack at singing along:

B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and
Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla
Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

spoken:
Listen--remember, they're playing our song!
Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey,
Make it bad and play it funky.
(Wanna take you higher!)

What, You Gotta Problem With My Halloween Costume?

(via Dependable Renegade)

This Protest Is Part Of A Balanced Breakfast

Cute.
(via The Daily What)

Guess They Should Have Cut The Blue Wire Instead

These kids may well have The Planet's Coolest Parents. Before tonight I had never heard of a Stick Bomb. My mind is now officially blown. (via Fun With Cole)

Looks like fun, right? Want to roll your own? Instructables.com shows you how to make one.

48 State Represent!

The US Represented By Its Movies

Um, pretty sure a couple of other kinda famous states joined the Union sometime in the last 50 years or so. What, no love for Hawaii and Alaska movies?