Home movie of Disneyland in 1956 – Boing Boing

Here’s some recently unearthed home movie footage of Disneyland in 1956, the year after it opened. The footage was shot by Jeff Altman’s grandfather using a Bell & Howell Filmo and 16mm Kodachrome film stock and includes a scene of his …

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Home movie of Disneyland in 1956 – Boing Boing

Computers' limitations, as seen in 1967 – Boing Boing

This October, 1967 Playboy article on computers and their limitations features an all-hands computer debugging session in which the machine’s minders grab their “trembling screwdrivers” and leap into the “machine’s intestines.” …

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Computers' limitations, as seen in 1967 – Boing Boing

Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages …

The current ish of Entertainment Weekly has a tiny video screen embedded in a two-page CBS ad that auto-plays when you turn the page. The screen is controlled by a slim PCB sandwiched between the pages.

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Lean Left » Blog Archive » Health Care Reform

Democrats want to create a government-run system for not providing health care, while Republicans say coverage is best denied by allowing private insurers to make it unaffordable for as many citizens as possible. …

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