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Remember the way-back-when days when airlines and their employees were the coolest members of society? Pilots were like rich playboys and flight attendants their herem of sexily uniformed sky-babes, and they all partied high above our heads in floating discotheques. Let’s revisit those days before shoe-bomb scares, liquids in ziplocked bags, nutty fees and taxes [...]

The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

We’re always pleased when some graphic designer takes it upon themselves to spruce up the look of an oldie but goodie music album, videogame or film. Today’s re-looking project comes courtesy of designer Huw Gwilliam (aka Littlepixel), whose re-imagined 39 Classic Album Covers as Vintage Penguin Books. Our favorite would have to be this version [...]

On Friday we pointed you to some graphic artists’ revisions of classic movie posters into truly outstanding art, and over the weekend we discovered a design firm had done something similar to some of our favorite album covers. Needless to say, Illumination Ink’s Modernist Editions will make you want to buy those seminal albums all [...]

We don’t use lunchboxes anymore, we’ve graduated to shoulder, messenger and tote bags where our lunches tend to spill and leak onto our books, magazines and notepads of frantically scrawled lists. If it were socially acceptable, we’d not only still be carrying a lunchbox to work every day, but we’d be packing just about the [...]

As our nutty Christian friends would have it, today is Good Friday (aren’t they always good, though?), which means this weekend is Easter. For some this will involve lots of talk about a Jewish carpenter named Jesus being crucified – ironically enough - on a fairly standard piece of carpentry (the classic T-model). For us, [...]

Remember the recent advertising showdown between Apple and Microsoft all over some of your favorite websites? Well if you thought such aggressive promotional tactics were new to the nerdy business of computer advertising, check out Boing Boing Gadgets’ listicle of 101 Classic Computer Ads.
From fighter jets, wrestlers and dragons to babies, wizards and Bill Cosby, [...]

Will our kids look back on our favorite digital and electronic pastimes like The Sims and Second Life and think we were crazy? Or, more likely, will they only know us by our immortal pixelized avatars? Either way, we’re fairly confident that none will compare to the wacky games featured in Neatorama’s listicle of The [...]

A look back at vintage ads that tout then-innovative inventions, such as the gas range, electric broom, and portable television. Behold! The future.
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Welcome back for the third edition of Listicles’ weekly round-up of all the nifty short-form moving image ephemera we come across in a given seven day period. There’s always more than we can squeeze into a three video post, so know that each installment of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is the result of a stressful, [...]