"Dr. Rutherford Quiglesby has invited you to join a right merry affair of Facebook."

The New York Times Bits blog reports that ProQuest archivist Bryan Benilous found a article from 1902 titled "Face Book The New Fad". The "face book" the article mentions is a sort of party game of drawing silly faces... in a book. Moreover:

The Face Book article is not the first quirky relic that Mr. Benilous and his colleagues have excavated from old news articles. In addition to discovering what appears to be an emoticon in a transcript of a speech by Abraham Lincoln, they’ve uncovered a 1942 Washington Post article titled "Think Before You Twitter" about gossiping and a 1903 article referring to the first "pocket telephone."

Hold on. I'm comin'. Hold on. I'm comin'. bada bum bum bada bum

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WHY? Why do the soybeans talk?!

Mario's Mindscape

by Harvey James

Somebody bought the Construct of the Universe

What a lucky duck! Someone on eBay bought the Construct of the Universe (more specifically "electromagnetic energy supply-gravitational dynamics") for a measly $21,000,000. That might sound like a lot but keep in mind the shipping is free, and that's all the way from Australia.

It offers the real and plausible potential to change the evolutionary progress of humanity through the understanding, interaction and manipulation capabilities of gravitational dynamics and the Transverse Magnetic Poling principle system utilizing both the direct effects and indirect effects of electro magnetic radiation mass energy release and gravitational disruption. The G-ion theorem implicates the long sought after answer to the puzzle of the cosmic 'makeup of everything' which opens the door to unmeasured potentials.

And with a seller rating of zero you know you can trust him... her... it. Beats those "you are bidding on a picture of" a Wii/PS3/PS2 etc. by far.

Foundphotos

Foundphotos finds pictures accidentally shared over P2P, plucks out the cool ones and throw them up for all to see. It's kind of voyeuristic, and I love it.

Los Simpsons

I could translate it, but it's creepier if you don't understand anything...

Hey. Uh... ...RUN!

Return to Oz

Return to Oz was a 1985 film I saw at the age of five or so (probably on VHS, oh yes the quality). I recently caught a glimpse of it again when my four-year old cousin got to watch it for the first time. There were only bits left in my memory that I hadn't even associated with this movie because I'd forgotten about it, but watching it again I realized how bizarre and creative it is.

The Oz series originated in 13 books, the first of which is the base for the original Wizard of Oz film. This movie took bits and pieces from the two books following that first to make something much weirder and dramatic than the original.

Return to Oz takes place directly after Wizard of Oz as they rebuild their farm house. No one believes Dorothy about Oz, and thinking that she's losing her mind her family sends her to a clinic for shock therapy. Just before they fry her brain she escapes and somehow ends up in Oz. There she meets a mechanical man named Tik-Tok, a stick man with a pumpkin for a head and a talking mounted moose. She's chased by a witch with interchangeable heads and henchmen called "Wheelers" with wheels in place of appendages.

There's death, danger and a talking chicken, and even a scene with Dorothy flying through a mountain. This is stuff you'd expect pot smokers to try and sync with a Pink Floyd album. Check out this music video mixed with clips of the movie: