This is a video of an old Parrish & Heimbecker grain elevator being sent to meet its maker by an excavator in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, after outliving its purpose. And speaking of outliving its purpose *lowers voice, looks around* my roommate. Honestly, I’m not convinced he ever had a purpose to
This is a very 90’s Game Boy commercial marketing the handheld console to adults who need a break from their fast-paced adult lives. Honestly, the same tactic would probably work just as well for selling White Claw hard setlzers. Maybe even better, because I just bought a 12-pack based on
The last Blockbuster store, located in Bend, Oregon, is letting residents of Deschutes County the chance to have an AirBnB sleepover in the store for three nights in September for just $4 a night (a cent more than the cost of a movie rental). So, yeah, just to be clear
This is a chart of every dress worn by Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus, as created by biology student, artist, and future dress designer Laura Ulrich. Some more info while I try to remember anything about 1994 – 1997 besides I was young and dumb, albeit nowhere near
This is a visualization created by Youtuber and possible superhero Captain Gizmo of the most played arcade games, by earnings, and adjusted for inflation throughout the past three decades. Wait — does that say Pac-Man has earned $15-billion?! Pac-Man and Space Invaders, damn, I wish I’d invented those games and
This is a vintage video from all the way back in 2002 of Christi and Ali getting 2nd generation iPods and not being sure what to make of them. You think their parents gave all their kids names that end with i? “Yes.” Haha — Levi, everybody! Honestly, I didn’t
Because everything, including musical taste, is cyclical, this is a cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ by Hildegard von Blingin’ (previously: Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’) in the style of a medieval banger being performed for the king at a feast where everyone is eating giant turkey drumsticks and
This is a visualization of all Blockbuster store locations in the US from 1986 to 2019. As you could probably imagine, there were very few in the beginning, a ton in the middle (peaking in early 2005), and now there’s only one left. It’s crazy to think there used to