googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); If you love drinking soda, then you probably go through quite a few cans of the stuff. And of course, all of those cans go straight into the trash or recycling bin. But did you know that instead of just throwing them out, you could turn them into awesome furniture? Instructables…
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17 Vintage Gun Ads That Probably Weren’t The Best Ideas
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googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); Whether you’re a fan of guns or not, I think we can all agree that some companies advertise them in strange and inappropriate ways. This is especially true when it comes to advertisements that were created decades ago. Sure, they seem to mean well and they’re from an entirely different time…
LIFE
Retro Recipes That Don’t Need To Make A Comeback. Ever.
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Oh, the mid-century! People greet this period with more pained eye rolling than the 80s. When photographic evidence of this era comes to light, people rise to its defense and claim, “Everyone was wearing that…” Someone came up with the idea in the mid-century that housewives were looking for new ways to delight their families during…
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1960′s Hover Scooter
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Vintage video channel BritishPathe brings us this classic clip from the 1960′s of a new vehicle invention. They appropriately call it the ‘hover scooter’ as it’s a mix of a hover craft and motor scooter. The video is featured on Gizmodo and Devour. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SY1y-8IRMw] Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/04/17/1960s-hover-scooter/
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30 Photos to Celebrate Flickr Commons 5th Anniversary
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On January 16, 2008, Flickr announced the start of an ambitious project called, The Commons. The key goals of The Commons are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer. This past January, The Commons…
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52 Unbelievable Video Game Things At The World’s Best Video Game Store
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It’s a video game museum in New York where everything is for sale. BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { if (BF_STATIC.bf_test_mode) localStorage.setItem(‘posted_date’, 1408650760); }); BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { document.getElementById(“update_posted_time_3424475”).innerHTML = “posted on ” + UI.dateFormat.get_formatted_date(1408650760); }); Video available at: http://www.youtube.com/v/-2a2KWwVGWg. youtube.com Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jeffrubin/52-unbelievable-video-game-things-at-the-worlds-best-video-g
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These Vintage Ads Prove Just How Far Technology Has Come… WOW.
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You know how your grandpa talks about how they don’t make things like they used to? Well, he is absolutely right. With our technological advances, these ads for these products make the people of the 1960’s look like cavemen. It’s hard to believe that some of these products were cutting-edge in their time. WOW: 1.)…
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I Don’t Know Whether These Lifelike Dolls Are Super Cool…Or Just Plain Creepy
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Dolls are known for being creepy, but I’ve never seen any quite as terrifying as the ones created by Russian artist Michael Zajkov. To say that they are lifelike is an understatement, as the finished products look more like real people than dolls. If you saw them in person, you might think they were about…