Open Source Environmental Genealogy
Using photography and open source maps as a window into the past.
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Retro vs. Nerdism
For those of you that don’t buy into the feel good whimsy of General Mill’s retro cereal boxes and the rebirth of toys like My Little Pony and Carebears; there’s still a lot of nostalgia out there that’s beginning to widen out.
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Dear Childhood : Grow Up
The upswing of all things 80′s now seems to come with a requirement, and that is to be better than you used to be.
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Brewdog’s Atlantic IPA:The first Sea-Aged Beer in 200 years.
A beer that includes pirate ship oak, tobacco, honey, killer whales, 60 foot waves and force 10 storms. Perfection.
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“Sargasso Planet” wins the internet!
This by far is one of the more successful and clever bids I’ve seen in a while for a viral campaign, especially at something that’s getting as much attention this year as San Diego Comic Con.
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Retro Calculator on the iPhone
The iPhone’s full of quirky, clever, funny and utterly useless aps that mimic real-life objects. We’re just glad this one actually has some real functionality alongside its totally retro fun allure. Though the TI-85 was the standard scientific calculator when I was teenager, I actually remember seeing one of these on my parents’ writing desk [...]
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TelegramStop: Send a Tradition Telegram the Easy Way
TelegramStop is a new Melbourne, Australia-based enterprise that has become a popular alternative to e-mails and traditional greeting cards. I have never received one before but I do get excited if I receive an actual card over an e-card so I would probably pass out if I got a telegram!!
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Real Sugar is a Throwback…
“Make me feel like I did back then”. TIME TRAVEL is all about recapturing those feelings from times gone by. We find a lot of fun “retro kitsch” in this wave. As someone in early my early 30’s it’s a trip to hear my generation now be referred to as “oldskool” by Gen y’s. What’s [...]
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Resurrecting Classic Games
Many of us grew up with the classic’s first released by game manufacturers Nintendo and Sega. Memories of blissfully spending countless hours maneuvering Mario and firing away those nasty mushrooms using the “A” or “B” button are about as cozy as baking cookies for Santa. The nostalgia alone has leaded some of us to revisit [...]
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Microsoft Launching Vintage Clothing
Microsoft would like to take us back for once –waaaaay back, back to a time when computers didn’t enslave our lives as tightly as clocks do. We’ve taken a moment to imagine what that felt like, and yes a bit of nostalgia crept up around our memories. Precisely the feeling Microsoft was going for, the [...]
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