• An abandoned house. A pile of Playboys. A rotting mattress. A skeleton,
• Courtesy of Bruce Sterling, this lovingly-crafted and utterly absurd techno-utopian take on the future of the Internet by a mad and earnest Italian who sounds suspiciously like our own Camillo Miller.
• The worst jobs in science. Orangutan urine collector I can see making the list, but NASA ballerina? You'd think dancing with a giant robot penis would make the entire thing a lot more bearable.
• "Robert Harrison is best remembered for his famous scandal sheet "Confidential", a magazine full of dirt, slander and fabricated scandals. However before the launch of "Confidential" in 1952 Harrison had been publishing a variety of Girlie magazines, with memorable titles such as Titter (America's Merriest Magazine), Beauty Parade (The World's Loveliest Girls), Wink, Flirt, Eyeful (Glorifying the American Girl) and Whisper." Via Grow-A-Brain.
• Metal Man comes to life at the 1939 World's Fair.
• A "reformed" Christian homosexual sings a wonderful song: "It's not O-KAY to be GAY / It's not O-KAY to be a HOMO / You shouldn't live that WAY / God said it was a real big NO-NO!"
