Apr 29 2008
Archive for April, 2008
Apr 28 2008
Hundreds of Hours of Brain-Numbing Classic TV
Did you know that there are scores of old TV shows available online… legitimately? We all know that you can come up with plenty of grainy YouTube videos, but the results can be kind of spotty (heh — no pun in ten did).
There’s evidently a move afoot among television distributors who are making their libraries of classic shows available online for free. Here’s just a sampling of some of the ones that push buttons in our household (some listed solely for their incredibly high kitsch quotient and in no particular order):
Emergency
Fame
Fantasy Island
Flipper
I Dream of Jeannie
I Spy
The Incredible Hulk
Land of the Giants
The Partridge Family
Lost In Space
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Time Tunnel
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Star Trek: TOS
Gumby
The Jetsons
The Man from U. N. C. L. E.
Mr. Peabody and Mr. Sherman
Scooby Doo
The Three Stooges
Tom and Jerry
The Addams Family
Fractured Fairy Tales
MacGyver
I Love Lucy
Looney Tunes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arrested Development
Bewitched
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
F Troop
The Andy Griffith Show
The Adventures of Superman
Night Gallery
Gilligan’s Island
Apr 27 2008
Anyone Need 250 GB of Free Online Storage?
Filedropper.com is offering 250 Gb of online storage for free — for life — if you sign up by May 15.
Apr 26 2008
Most Memorable TV Ads of the ’70s
To follow up on my previous post, this from Divine Caroline: “Most Memorable TV Ads of the ’70s.”
Apr 21 2008
VD is for Everybody
My childhood was influenced in no small part by the feel-good advertisements of the 1970s. Anyone old enough to remember those years still has those catchy advertising tunes floating around in our heads today. One little reminder and the whole era comes rushing back in a flood of brown-and-rust plaids, elephant bellbottoms, and macrame wall hangings.
Coke: “Buy the World a Coke”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8H5263jCGg)
McDonald’s “You Deserve a Break Today”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRLP3rHr7A)
Dr. Pepper: “Be a Pepper”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DWf-rSHn0)
There was evidently one ad from that era that escaped me, though. How’d I miss it?
Apr 18 2008
A Chicken in Every Pot
I don’t know how this little fryer crawled out of his soup pot, but I bet he’ll be one tasty little morsel once he cooks up all nice-n-tender-like.
Apr 17 2008
Miraculous Direct Note Access Can Completely Change Music
The world of electronic music and studio recording is about to fundamentally change through some revolutionary new technology: Melodyne’s Direct Note Access.
Apr 17 2008
Up and Then Down: The Lives of Elevators
This is a lengthy article from the New Yorker, but it’s absolutely fascinating… at least if you have a thing for (or against) elevators:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=1
Apr 11 2008
Free Music from Sovereign Grace Ministries
Just follow these instructions for a free download of the new album from Sovereign Grace. (I think this expires on Saturday, so you’ll have to move quickly.)
First follow this link: http://www.sovereigngracestore.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=M4225-00-51
Then:
1. Hit the “add to cart” button
2. Click on “Checkout”
3. If your first time to their web store you’ll need to fill out a few fields of information then click “Create Account.”
4. Enter your address then click “Continue.”
5. Enter the following code in the “Add a Promotional Code” field: SGMFAN
6. Press the gray button to the right of the code field.
7. Press the “Place Order” button.
8. Then press the “download” button and then again, and DONE.
Enjoy!
