It’s movie night at my place so we’re about to watch Star Wars the way George Lucas definitely meant it to be seen: via Telnet streamed at 9600bps to a 43-year-old IBM PC with a monochrome green screen monitor 😍
“Not above the business. The Russian terrier and the Chinese vermin.”, The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal, cartoon published during the Boxer Rebellion, 6 October 1900.
Instead of spending $200aud a year on 2tb digital storage’s I spend $200on a external hard deck with 8tb hard drive. Was this stupid and are they any down sides?
My son drew Boba Fett for me (freehanded), since he knows that Fett is my favorite character. My kiddo also asked me to “share it with the internet”. He’s 8 years old, and a huge Star Wars fan (like me!).
‘Them days is gone forever’ (American poster by Alvah Posen/ U.S. Government Printing Office for Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)/ Office of War Information (OWI). United States of America, 1943).
In Revenge of the Sith (2005), Fox tells Bail Organa that it is time for him to leave. This is a reference to this subreddit’s sudden weird obsession over Jimmy Smits.
Soldiers from the (PLA) Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ground Force – during urban combat training in Mapinga, Tanzania – Exercise Peace Unity 2024. [1280 x 853]
‘Anti-fascists – vote Communists – ballot list 3’ (German election campaign poster for the KPD, with Antifa logo. German federal election, 31 July, 1932. German Reich, 1932).
7 Feet, 1 Inch tall Wilt Chamberlain floating through the air whilst practising with the Harlem Globetrotters, 1958.
Creating a model of a murder victim -John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 men in Cook County, Illinois. In 1980, forensic artists were recruited to reconstruct the facial features of nine unidentified victims so that photos could be released by the media in an attempt to identify them.
‘Lubricating oil Is imported in tankers… No economy is too small to count’ (English poster by Marcus Stone/ Charles & Read Ltd. for His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), Ministry of Fuel and Power. United Kingdom, ca. 1941).
