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Day November 16, 2004

Black Lois Lane

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Some scans of a Superman comic where Lois Lane goes undercover as a black woman. What a reporter!!

The story begins with Lois assigned to do a story on Metropolis’s urban area that Lois refers to Little Africa. It seems that all black people refuse to submit to an interview done by Miss Whitey. Young children, old blind ladies, and even people on the street hate white people. With Superman’s help Lois is placed inside the Plastimold and the Transformoflux Pack invented by Dahr-Nel, Kryptonian Surgeon. Apparently this machine is meant to change white people to black people. You have to wonder if Superman uses this machine often?

(via Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables)

Create Your Own Garfield Comic

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Cool but I don’t remember Garfield always looking so happy.

(via CoolGov , one of the best new blogs I have seen.)

Unguarded Moments: Photographs of President Reagan

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I am not the biggest Ronald Reagan fan but this is one terrific gallery of pictures.

The Obsolete Technology Website

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I especially like the timeline on the sidebar for this site.

Silhouettes of Aeroplanes

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This page reproduces an aircraft recognition guide published early in 1917. The only clue to its origin is a the following line on the last page: (B 8739) Wt. w. 12347-9306 35M 1/17 H & S.

The History of 404 Not Found

But now it all makes sense.

In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web’s central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.

When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realised that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: “Room 404: file not found”.

Vampyres Online

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The vampire movie database.

’80s Humor

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You know you’re a child of the ’80s if…

Spacewar

This will probably only be interesting to geeks and those who read Stephen Levy’s book Hackers, but it is an old Rolling Stones article on Spacewars, one of the first video games.

Human Universals

A list of characteristics that all of us share.
(via Incoming Signals)


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