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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #631 on: June 07, 2011, 09:57:14 AM »
Hey, fun to flip through this online catalog of rock memorabilia going up for auction June 25-26; items from Elvis, Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Motown, The Who, Hendrix, Joplin, Sinatra, Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, right up to Lady Gaga and more:
http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2011/music-icons/index.html

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2011/music-icons/icatalog.html

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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #633 on: June 16, 2011, 11:36:52 PM »
ah, young love in the middle of a hockey-hooligan riot:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874161-amorous-protestors-lost-in-the-heat-of-vancouver-riots#.TfpDdLXqxhs;facebook

Incredible image, but if you go to the link in the last graf of the update, it looks as if the couple and friends staged it. Performance art? ;)
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #634 on: June 17, 2011, 12:11:25 PM »
ah, young love in the middle of a hockey-hooligan riot:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874161-amorous-protestors-lost-in-the-heat-of-vancouver-riots#.TfpDdLXqxhs;facebook

Incredible image, but if you go to the link in the last graf of the update, it looks as if the couple and friends staged it. Performance art? ;)

the real story:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?entry_id=91251
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #635 on: July 04, 2011, 09:59:54 AM »
A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play.  'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us

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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #636 on: July 04, 2011, 11:44:42 PM »
A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play.  'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us

wow, cool. it really works!

I got all mine:  Neil Diamond, Farah Fawcett, Mighty Mouse.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #637 on: July 05, 2011, 12:38:59 AM »
A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play.  'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us

wow, cool. it really works!

I got all mine:  Neil Diamond, Farah Fawcett, Mighty Mouse.

It got two out of three of mine: Willie Mays and Peter Gabriel. But I stumped it with Big Al Anderson.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #638 on: July 14, 2011, 02:13:43 PM »
appropriate, as the discussion of KFOG trying to cast off their older demographic reminds that may of us ARE that demographic:

http://news.yahoo.com/aging-boomers-strain-cities-built-young-130207113.html
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #639 on: July 25, 2011, 06:34:15 PM »
especially for TC, since I'm sure he hasn't friended AARP on FB... yet.  They posted this Neil Peart artiicle in their feed today:

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-fitness-neil-peart-20110725,-10,911838,full.story
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #640 on: August 24, 2011, 02:15:10 PM »
Not about food, but SF Foodie responds to that "why people are leaving SF" piece in yesterday's Chron with a "oh HELLS no, we ain't goin' anywhere" post on reasons to live here

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/08/why_were_staying_in_san_franci.php#more
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #641 on: August 24, 2011, 02:20:40 PM »
Not about food, but SF Foodie responds to that "why people are leaving SF" piece in yesterday's Chron with a "oh HELLS no, we ain't goin' anywhere" post on reasons to live here

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/08/why_were_staying_in_san_franci.php#more

W Blake Gray, the writer of that piece, used to work at the Chronicle as a wine writer.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #642 on: November 12, 2011, 05:00:10 PM »
I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed.  Pretty awesome.

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1

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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #643 on: November 12, 2011, 07:32:07 PM »
I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed.  Pretty awesome.

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1

Wow, very cool. I've heard about one or two disused subway stations that still exist under the streets of Manhattan, but this is the first I've heard about this.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #644 on: November 12, 2011, 10:29:56 PM »
I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed.  Pretty awesome.

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1

Wow, very cool. I've heard about one or two disused subway stations that still exist under the streets of Manhattan, but this is the first I've heard about this.

I really dig this kind of stuff!  So cool.
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