Ghost towns
They’re abandoned, spooky, creepy, cool. And they’re not just in the old American west.
5/29 Tuesday
ON HIATUS…
Well, shit. I have to neglect di4ent while I tend to other things. Sorry!
5/14 Monday
Ghost Towns of the American West
“Basically, a ghost town is any historical site that leaves evidence of a town’s previous glory. This could be in many forms — all businesses closed, municipal services at a minimum, rubble and old nails strewn about, ruins of former buildings, etc.” MORE ➲
5/11 Friday
How to save a Maine ghost town?
“Once it was home for American Indians; later to early European settlers. But soon Swan Island in Maine’s picturesque Kennebec River — about 45 miles northeast of Portland — may be without any houses. (See map for a location.) Years of neglect brought about by limited state funding has caught up with many of the historic dwellings on the island, some of them dating back to the 1750s.” MORE ➲
5/10 Thursday
Kreamer Island
“Kreamer Island was settled as a fishing and agricultural settlement in the 1800s. Access was very limited and most everything arrived by boat. There were several dwellings, a store, church, and a school. In fact one of the dwellings served as a home, post office, and general store.” MORE ➲
5/9 Wednesday
Hashima Island
 “Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.” MORE ➲
5/8 Tuesday
Elena’s Motorcyle Ride through Chernobyl
“I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations leads North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl ‘dead zone’, which is 130kms from my home. Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads. The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes. In places where roads have not been travelled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago…” MORE ➲
5/7 Monday
Ghost towns in Canada
 “Great photographs and stories on ghost towns in Ontario and Alberta, Canada… This website is dedicated to all those forgotten communities which, whether due to lousy planning, impossible dreams or rotten luck, just didn’t make it.” MORE ➲
5/4 Friday
Centralia, Pennsylvania
“Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 as a result of a 40-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania…” Also see this link. MORE ➲
5/3 Thursday
Ghost Town Explorers
Information about dozens of old mine sites and ghost towns in the northern California desert (and the Sierra region). MORE ➲
5/2 Wednesday
Colorado Ghost Towns
“Everyone’s definition for a Ghost Town is different… Basically it can be any town involved in mining or agricultural activity that went thru various cycles of boom and bust and/or towns that are important to the history of Colorado and the old west.” MORE ➲
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Grocery lists
All those little scraps of paper you write the things you’re going to buy down on? Yeah, they’re fascinating. No, really! Have a look.
5/14 Monday
Global Grocery List Project
“Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines. Global Grocery List is a long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines.” MORE ➲
5/11 Friday
When buying organic pays (and doesn’t)
“Know when it pays to buy organic food products to reduce your exposure to pesticides and other additives, when it might sometimes pay, and when it’s a waste of your money. Use this section the next time you’re making a grocery list.” MORE ➲
5/10 Thursday
Shopping list is key to grocery savings
“One of the easiest ways to save money on groceries is to simply make a thorough shopping list and follow it. I mean really follow it, not throwing in extra items or letting your children throw in extra items. If you resolve to make a good grocery list before every shopping trip, you will save real money this year.” MORE ➲
5/9 Wednesday
The Grocery List Compendium
“This site has been inspired by the kind people who abandon their shopping list at the end of a trip to the supermarket. I collect their shopping lists. If you’re American you probably refer to these as grocery lists, which strikes me as a bit strange because not all the items on the lists are groceries. Anyhow, I won’t worry myself about it if you won’t.” MORE ➲
5/8 Tuesday
The Shopping List Collection
 “Jansen [Price] has collected shopping lists for a number of years. He currently has over 3,000 different shopping lists. After collecting a large amount, he contemplated what could be done with them, and on January 10th, 1999, Jansen started emailing a shopping list randomly selected from the collection to a group of friends every Sunday.”MORE ➲
5/7 Monday
Grocist
“1. You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen); 2. simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them; 3. Grocist looks up the products information from the UPC database; 4. and keeps a running grocery list for you.” MORE ➲
5/4 Friday
Aisle-by-Aisle Grocery List Software
“Imagine walking into the store with an aisle-by-aisle list in your hand. Better yet, your grocery list has grocery coupon reminders printed right on it. Automatically. Now you won’t forget to use your coupons. Is this aisle-by-aisle list easy to make? The software makes it easy. It provides tools to lay out your own store aisles. For example, you can tell the program that canned fruit belongs in Aisle 7. You have total control and total flexibility.” MORE ➲
5/3 Thursday
Grocery List Generator for Firefox
“The GLG (Grocery List Generator) is a helpful little tool to store your recipe-ingredients and other groceries you need regularly. It creates a well-organized grocery list to help make your grocery shopping as easy as possible.” MORE ➲
5/2 Wednesday
‘Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found’
 Today my book is released. It’s called “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found” and features nearly 300 discarded grocery lists from all over the U.S. — and a few from around the globe. Where else will you find a 2,000-year-old grocery list, lists from all 50 U.S. states, the most commonly misspelled words on Americans’ shopping lists, delicious recipes made using only ingredients listed on other people’s discarded lists, a shoplifting list and a chance meeting with Chevy Chase in the bathroom at Yankee Stadium? Where? Nowhere else. MORE ➲
5/1 Tuesday
LifeHacking Your Grocery List
“The reason that we often have lots of food, but nothing that goes together is that most of us buy our groceries either with an arbitrary list of things we usually get or worse, just wander the store, filling the cart with things that appeal to us. As a result, rather than buying to feed our families, we’re buying to feed our imagination. When we start taking control of this impulse, our grocery bill will shrink, meals will be easy to prepare and you may actually find yourself enjoying cooking again.” MORE ➲
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Indiana Jones
One of the greatest movie franchises of all time — and Indy’s coming back! Let’s learn more about the films while we wait for part four.
5/14 Monday
A “letter” on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied.” MORE ➲
5/11 Friday
Indiana Jones Movie Formula
“Hi all Indy fans, well here are some interesting relationships between the Indy trilogy movies ( like the ones in the Back to the Future trilogy) So if you want to write an Indy movie, follow this formula!” MORE ➲
5/10 Thursday
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure
“This game was part of Williams/Midway’s ‘SuperPin’ line of widebody games. The first pinball game to use Williams’ DCS sound system. Features custom-recorded speech by actor John Rhys-Davies (‘Sallah’).” MORE ➲
5/9 Wednesday
Twitter / IndianaJones
Not active enough, but maybe he’ll get on the ball one day! MORE ➲
5/7 Monday
Indygear.com: Indiana Jones Clothing and Equipment
“We are simply a resource to help fellow Indiana Jones fans locate items used in the movies for their own collection. Think of us as an online Grail Diary to provide clues and help you in your quest to find that perfect Fedora…or whatever it is you are searching for.” MORE ➲
5/4 Friday
Walt Disney World Resort’s Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
“Thrill to the pulse-pounding explosions, crashes, clashes and death-defying stunts of Indiana Jones’ onscreen adventures. Sit behind the director’s chair to participate in this stage spectacular that reveals some of the moviemaking magic responsible for Indy’s triumphs over deadly traps, bad-guy battles and epic-scale obstacles. You may even be chosen to be an extra!” MORE ➲
5/3 Thursday
Indiana Jones 4
“Indiana Jones 4 is the working title of the anticipated fourth film in the Indiana Jones series, which is set to be released worldwide on Thursday, May 22, 2008.[1] The film had been in development hell since shortly after the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, with various screenwriters and false production starts. Shooting is to commence June 18, 2007. Harrison Ford will return to play the title role.” MORE ➲
5/2 Wednesday
TheRaider.net: Indiana Jones news, info and fan community
“The latest news & extensive coverage on all Indy films, tv-series, video games, books, collectibles, downloads, articles, etc.” MORE ➲
5/1 Tuesday
Twenty-Five Reasons to Watch ‘Raiders’ Again
 “[On June 12, 2006] audiences were thrown headlong into what has become the most celebrated adventure movie serial of all time. To commemorate Raiders of the Lost Ark’s 25th anniversary, indianajones.com has collected 25 little-known facts for you to share with friends while watching the movie that redefined the action-adventure genre we know today…” MORE ➲
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T-Shirts
Oh, c’mon! We all love cool, clever t-shirts — and we’ve all bought stupid, insipid t-shirts. Here are a bunch of links to both!
5/14 Monday
“The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”
“In The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, business professor Pietra Rivoli takes the reader on a fascinating around-the-world adventure to reveal the life story of her six-dollar T-shirt. Traveling from a West Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory, and from trade negotiations in Washington to a used clothing market in Africa, Rivoli examines international trade through the life story of this simple product.” MORE ➲
5/11 Friday
Irony, to a T
 “How we got from the earnest ‘Dew it with Dewey’ shirt of the 1940s to the ‘I’m getting really good at masturbating’ one of today.” (Thanks kottke.org!) MORE ➲
5/10 Thursday
The Best T-shirt ever made
Maybe not the best ever, but surely pretty damn awesome. MORE ➲
5/9 Wednesday
Tcritic
“Hey there, welcome to Tcritic, a daily blog about t-shirts, t-shirt companies, and things that should be t-shirts. If you want your t-shirt reviewed, send me an email and preferably a picture of someone wearing the shirt. I tend to like original t-shirts, indie, odd, attractive, artsy etc.” MORE ➲
5/8 Tuesday
Innovation and the T-Shirt
“Phillips has always been an innovator in lighting and displays. Now they bring that innovative approach to the lowly T-shirt with their Lumalive light emiting textiles.” MORE ➲
5/7 Monday
A History of T-shirts
“The predecessor of the t-shirt was the “union suitâ€, a type of one-piece long underwear worn beneath clothing. In 1901, P.H. Hanes Knitting Company introduced two-piece men’s underwear for catalogue sale. The t-shirt got its big break during WWI in 1913 when the U.S. Navy issued a garment that featured short sleeves, a ‘crew’ neckline and a ‘T’-shape.” MORE ➲
5/4 Friday
How T-Shirts are Made
“The most commonly used seams for T-shirts are narrow, superimposed seams, which are usually made by placing one piece of fabric onto another and lining up the seam edges. These seams are frequently stitched with an overedge stitch, which requires one needle thread from above and two looper threads from below. This particular seam and stitch combination results in a flexible finished seam.” MORE ➲
5/3 Thursday
A T-Shirt History: From Underwear to Outerwear
“Mesa, Ariz., screen printer / airbrusher Spider likes to tell the (possibly apocryphal) story of the Chinese merchant who, about 2500 B.C., combined the even-then old art of stenciling and then-current rage at the Emperor’s court — decorated robes — to produce an early printed garment. ‘I’m not sure where that story comes from,’ said Spider, ‘but even today I can see that old Chinaman’s reasoning: There was a big market for a printed garment and it was faster and cheaper to stencil it than to paint it by hand.’” MORE ➲
5/2 Wednesday
TSHIRT HELL
“Looking for a funny t-shirt, a cool t-shirt, a crazy t-shirt? Come inside now, you funny tee shirt sheik.” MORE ➲
5/1 Tuesday
Threadless
“Threadless is an ongoing tee shirt design competition. Four to six designs are chosen every week from 600+ submissions to be printed and sold from the site with the winning designers receiving $2,000 in cash and prizes! The project was started in January of 2000 by two Chicago area designers, Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart. Since then over 450 winning designs have been chosen for print from more than 60,000 submissions.” MORE ➲
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