School Colour Palettes of Britain 1930

Illustrations from The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools & Hospitals, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., 1930, found here.

Elinguated Hot Links

She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.

Runners.

Smile *click*

Irish mussels.

Some bad days.

The Hand (1966).

Trains and trains.

Product placement.

Ricky G, influencer.

R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)

Little Shop de Brujerias.

Norty Blues Episode 88.

World’s longest experiment.

Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].

1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.

Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].

Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]


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¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!

[Skeletons going “Huzzah” .gif found here.]

Halloween Costume Suggestions

All appear to be the work of Petr Válek, more at the link.

Flicks from the Cauldron

Making Movies In A VolcanoPopular Science Monthly, April 1933. Illustration: Edgar Franklin Wittmack.

[Found here, and that’s $3.67 in 2024 dollars.]

It’s Anything Can Nancy Day

[Modified just a slurp, original strip found here. More Nancy related items in the archive.]

Rhyparographic Hot Links

The Cry Of The Wild Goose, Frankie Laine (1950)
The wild goose nose song scored No. 1 on Billboard’s most played by deejays list in 1950, the third of Laine’s three consecutive No. 1 hits of that year.

Disobey.

Pulled shrimp.

Never can tell.

Multiple choice.

Fastballs are fast.

Goodbye Tropicana.

Pennsylvania aurorae.

Norty Blues Episode 85.

An ounce of prevention?

Here come the Maskholes.

Hiking through Chimney Rock.

I Am Boris Kelstorm [via IDHMGO].

Paris street art [via Mme. Jujujive].

Dairy Queens of yore [via Memo Of The Air].

Misophonia and an example of misophonia.

1947 road trip (with music from 1959?) [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Painting by Quebec painter Mark Lague found here.]


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Making Monsters

A young girl was found imprinting her face into velvet upholstery.

[Found here.]

Antiquarians

Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers’ dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009

[Found here.]

Acolouthic Hot Links

Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Lolo Face.

Cirrus Surfer.

Soho George.

UFO crash site.

Bark bark bark.

Poling bamboo.

Listen to a moth.

Donkey nannies.

Wendy’s watching.

Self Defense in MA.

Eh. Eh. Ah, ah, ah.

Norty Blues Episode 81.

Escape from Springfield.

Streetscapes in watercolor.

The CPI continues to climb.

Cool maps you’ve never seen.

Nice magazine. Want to sell it?

The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.

Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.

The worst movie death scene ever.

Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].

Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]


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