Category: xtra

This collection of amazing photographs of 1930’s New York City in the New York Public Library Archive are really worth a look. But really any of the 700,000 images they offer online are fascinating.

kind of artsy of google this commercial is. but does google really need to make commercials?

For at least the past 60 years, on Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, a mysterious man would leave a bouquet of roses and a bottle of cognac at his grave. Each and every year, except this year! Fascinating.

A very original take on tetris, ads a bit of a challenge
to the game. Try it to see what I mean.

In this 1972 picture book author Geoffrey Hoyle envisions what life will be like in the far of future, the year 2010! Surprisingly he is not far off in the “vision phone” department, the other ideas are a bit wilder, and sadly we never seem to get to a point in the future where we all wear jumpsuits.

Thanks to Daniel Sinker for bringing this wonderful book to the internets!

This awesome site lets you browse vintage ads for all sorts of things. Try candy or select gender and see how incredibly sexist, ads used to be.

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