net-life: "the pace on the treadmill has been turned up from cane-assisted to massively multiplayer intellectual marathon. The simple journey ... one of ascent & descent, has been disrupted. Only the end remains fixed. ... I don't know how old I am"
45rpm record label designs, visionary typography, handpainted business signs, cult of the goat in Bock beer labels, ephemera and the world of old paper, word drawings in 'they called her styrene,' shrines & altars & holy places...
Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.
Shorpy is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. Brings our ancesters back, at least to the desktop. Named after Shorpy Higginbotha
Old versions of software are catalogued, described, and offered for downloading [via links]. Historical accounts, files to download; a great archival storeroom for old, outdated, discontinued, remaindered, banned, and otherwise unfortunate software.
