_Videodrome is Motherboard's weekly look at the weird old archival footage lurking around the web. Check out old posts "here":http://motherboard.vice.com/search/posts?keyword=videodrome&commit=Search._ I'm not going to wade into the Thomas Edison
Videodrome is Motherboard’s weekly look at the weird old archival footage lurking around the web. Check out old posts here. It’s Friday, which means it’s party time, right? Only problem is, sometimes you’re sitting there sucking back a ‘grita, wit…
To describe a robot future, the makers of The Bell System, at the time the leading telephone service in the US and Canada, hired Jim Henson. Then known as the eccentric behind the variety puppet show Sam and Friends, and before he became a household…
I'm not sure exactly when this PSA dates from, but I'm guessing sometime in the 30s or 40s. Produced by the California State Fire Marshal, it's a helpful (albeit a bit goofy) guide to the dangers plaguing homeowners in California's booming suburbs.
Here's a wonderful bit of archival schlock for you: a sort-of adaptation of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" called _Bloodlust!_
“Why do your friends smile and snicker at you, Adrelene?” asks the creepy narrator in his bullying tone. Poor Adrelene conforms in every conceivable way -- she wears new clothes, is not obese, and has a “sense of humor”. But, during a trip to the cra…
For the most part, it’s a good call to live out one’s days in denial. It’s a safe bet that the world will not end in the next 100 years, so why should anyone worry about it, since we’ll all be dead anyway? Things have been going along smoothly for mi…
Whatever your feelings are about "fairly" paying janitors (Harvard just "came to an agreement with its janitors":http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/11/harvard-custodians/fJiazmLaZMEst2uvDZeNqO/index.html, though Newt Gingrich "says he wants"…
In 2001, the majority of Americans didn’t have the Internet. Most people got online using dial up connections. Only 7% of Internet users worldwide had broadband. Most things purchased online were paid for by money order. Hotmail addre…
