Flickr set of decaying roller coaster
Old roller coaster at Chippewa lake Ohio. Built in 1920's ended service1978. Link to more photographs
March 2008
Cleveland Police say truck full of cookies also contained $1,000,000 in Mexican pot.
One stop shopping: Another big cache of drugs off the streets…this time in a legitimate shipment of Chips Ahoy cookies! 634 pounds of marijuana were seized early Friday morning on Cleveland’s west-side. It represents the second $1,000,000 seizure of marijuana in as many weeks. This latest bust resulted from a […]
Notable Registrants of the World War I Draft
Shown here is J C Penney's, I like that he was 'self-employed'. From the Gov Archives: The 24 million World War I Draft Registration Cards in the custody of the National Archives Southeast Region provide an invaluable resource for academic researchers and genealogists. All males in the United States, born […]
Hal Riney, 75, RIP
Hal Riney, the San Francisco advertising man whose iconic and memorable work helped establish the city as an important creative center for the industry and a magnet for major accounts, died of cancer in his San Francisco home Monday. He was 75. Whether his client was an automobile manufacturer, a […]
Beijing Olympics 2008 : Logo competition submissions
See more entries at Osocio
Real Flying Saucer Eyed by Defense Department
Flying Saucer Eyed by Defense Department Brit firm to demo serious flying robo-saucer in 2009: A small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology. GFS Projects of Peterborough was registered in 2002, following […]
“Starmageddon”
Thousands of starfish wash up on the shores of southern England, the Environment Agency now believes that dredgers – the kind used to scrape the sea floor for mussels – were almost certainly to blame. Read more
Arthur C Clarke, 90, RIP
Legendary British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. He came to fame when his story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made into a film by director Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage", […]
Camel beauty pageants become popular pastime in Saudi Arabia
From New York Times: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — This time of year, when the weather here is still cool and comfortable and the flowering plants and shrubs are everywhere, how better to spend a day than to be out in the desert with beautiful camels? To be sure, the untrained eye might […]
Bushisms: A week of stumbles on video
Link to Slate.com Video