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  • IMCDB

    The Internet Movie Cars Database “can be used to find in which movie a particular car is visible, or to have more info about some cars visible in a particular movie.
    You will also find lots of pictures of these cars, taken directly from the movies.”.

  • Product Design Database

    “A showcase of different Japanese consumer products from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, mostly, including everything from phones, radios, TV sets, audio sets, cameras to vehicles.”.

    From Tuk Tuk, by Akira Ota.

    		 Mazda AZ-1

    Right: Mazda AZ-1 (1992).

  • Psych 153 slides

    The Psych 153 slides (Jonathan Baron, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology).

    It’s a Google’s result for the query “Neglect of Probability” that is, from Wikipedia:
    “…the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.”.

    A sample:

    “There is a distinction between an individual life and a statistical life.

    Let a 6-year-old girl with brown hair need thousands of dollars for an operation that will prolong her life until Christmas, and the post office will be swamped with nickels and dimes to save her.

    But let it be reported that without a sales tax the hospital facilities of Massachusetts will deteriorate and cause a barely perceptible increase in preventable deaths – not many will drop a tear or reach for their checkbooks.”.

  • Ran Prieur

    “Getting free of the system is more complex than we’ve been led to believe.
    In my case, as I understood what I had to go through to make money, I stopped spending it.”.

    “This is the low-budget universe: I ride around the city on an old cheap road bike, in street clothes, often hauling food I’ve just pulled out of a dumpster.”.

    “We are descended from risk-takers and adventurers, we fantasize about people in heroic life and death struggles, and here we are, cringing through a life of meaningless toil and the best justification we can come up with is that if we quit our jobs we won’t have health insurance!”.

    Ran Prieur, How to Drop Out. Read also: Criticism and response.

    Content released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

  • The excuse machine

    Technologies from stupid.com:

    “With some people, it’s impossible to get off the phone.
    Meet the Get off the phone excuse machine:
    with just a press of a button, you’ll have a solid excuse that’ll get you off the phone, no questions asked.”.

    Two examples:

    Static: Press this button and say, “I can’t hear you. You’re breaking up!” Then just hang up the phone.

    Car crashing: Just say, “Oh, my god!” and hang up.

    “Sometimes it seems like mothers speak a different language.
    Well, thanks to modern science and vivid imaginations, you can now instantly understand your Mom.

    All you need is this Understand Your Mother Instantly Breath Spray!”.

  • Pubblicità progresso

    “Pubblicità Progresso* is a non-profit association established in 1971 with a view to giving voice to people’s moral, civil and educational problems. Since then, Pubblicità Progresso has carried out 30 social campaigns.”. Mad

    Respect other’s opinion
    (Bates Italia agency, 1973)

    – Nobody has ever dared to contradict me. I’m great.
    – Hey. You aren’t great. You are alone.
    “Respect who doesn’t think like you.”.

    If you listen you grow
    (FCB Italia agency, 2001)

    “The words of the others can enrich us. Listen to them.”.

    Let’s improve ourselves
    (ODG agency, 1995)

    – Listen, have you read many books this year?
    – No. No one, actually.
    – Then, newspapers?
    – Uhm…newspapers…no, I didn’t.
    – Perhaps some course? Say English, computer?
    – No. You know, lack of time…
    – Then, what are you doing?
    – Nothing.
    – Nothing. But have you realized what you’re doing?
    – It’s true. But from tomorrow things will change.
    “Cultivate more interests. It’s your interest.”.

    Above: “That mad says that two plus two doesn’t make four. What if he wasn’t mad?”, wallpaper detail.
    (ODG agency, 1973)

    *Meaning: advertising-progress
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  • Charley

    Charley The National Archives present:
    Public Information Films.

    “In 1973 the incomprehensible pronouncements from a ginger cat named Charley warned children against strangers, matches, water safety and other everyday perils.”.
    (Charley In The Kitchen)

    “The Central Office of Information produce a wide range of information campaigns designed to inform the public on a huge range of issues which affect their daily lives, such as health, welfare, education and rights.”.

    British humour included.
    See, for example, The Fatal Floor (1974).

    Further material on the Andrew Wisemans’s Television Room* (aka 625.uk.com). A must see.

    Above: Charley – Strangers (1973), frame.
    Material subject to Crown Copyright, ©The National Archives.

    *Requires a Real Player.

  • Television presentation

    A journey into the British TV web sites: how television presents itself.

    		 ATV logo

    Right: ATV Zoom (1957-1964), end frame. (625.uk.com)

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  • High Delivery

    High Delivery by Ferry Halim High Delivery.
    An Orisinal flash game. By Ferry Halim.Music: Children of Beslan by Steven Cravis.

    Play and listen also:

    Flowers. Music: Our Love Never Dies by Ernesto Cortazar.

    The Way Home. Music: Bedtime for Little John by Michael Dulin (from Atmospheres, 2003).

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  • Only say things that can be heard

    “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
    Don’t assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance.
    And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one, until you can show it isn’t you.”.

    (Joao Miranda from Assume Stupidity Not Malice in Meatball Wiki)

    “You want to communicate your ideas. You want to be heard, preferably understood, and most preferably agreed with.
    It doesn’t work. No matter how you try, they just dont’t get it.
    Practice saying only those things that the people around you can hear.”.

    (Michael Hill in Only Say Things That Can Be Heard)