The Good Stuff Online Thread

[pandacracker]

I'm not sure if this is the right place but I want to share what I found.

This man makes fabulous Heath Robinson type devices. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joseph's+machines

 

[Lord Lucan]

This is cool. A Google Earth like map where every green dot is a radio station. Simply click on one to listen. Enjoy!

http://radio.garden/

 

[TangletwigsDeux]

This is cool. A Google Earth like map where every green dot is a radio station. Simply click on one to listen. Enjoy!

http://radio.garden/

Wow Firefox hates that site with a passion if you have tracking protection turned on! It goes into a fit of reloading over and over again, quite soothing really.
EDIT: Oh it was forcing HTTPS that broke it good and proper - letting it use plain HTTP bought it too life.
Great site when I allow it to do what it was trying to do though!

 

[Mythopoeika]

Neat idea!

 

[hunck]

Re: Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee Thursday 10th December 2020 - YouTube

Latest Handforth Parish Council Zoom again descends into chaos

Wednesday's meeting was being watched on YouTube by more than 3,500 people at one stage, with some members of the public seen smoking on the Zoom call while another person shielded their face with a large safari hat.

Members of the public interjected and made cat-calls throughout the meeting.

Wednesday's meeting included a number of references to the viral meeting, with members of the public interrupting proceedings with laughter and quoting catchphrases like "read the standing orders, read them and understand them".

An argument also broke out among the councillors about the previous meeting's minutes

etc.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Considering that the sound is coming from the Tesla coils, the sound is amazing:

 

[Mythopoeika]

Amazing abandoned Hobbit house:

 

[Swifty]

Considering that the sound is coming from the Tesla coils, the sound is amazing:

Ace .. thanks Mytho, just sent that to my Sister, she'll love it.

 

[Mythopoeika]

These are the most amazing hobo nickels I have seen so far:

 

[maximus otter]

Raniero Testa of Winchester throws 17 clay pigeons into the air by hand, then breaks every one with his Winchester SX4 shotgun before any of them can touch the ground. Time elapsed: 2.08 seconds:

Rate of fire? Apparently equivalent to 490 rounds per minute. That’s almost equal to a Sten gun, and faster than some other submachine guns.

maximus otter

 

[Mythopoeika]

Raniero Testa of Winchester throws 17 clay pigeons into the air by hand, then breaks every one with his Winchester SX4 shotgun before any of them can touch the ground. Time elapsed: 2.08 seconds:

Rate of fire? Apparently equivalent to 490 rounds per minute. That’s almost equal to a Sten gun, and faster than some other submachine guns.

maximus otter

Throwing all those clay pigeons high up into the air is a feat all by itself. But I guess it was necessary to keep them all bunched together for maximum damage. If they'd been launched by machine, they may have been spread further apart.

 

[Comfortably Numb]

This is something which popped up on YouTube and is seriously meaningful.

It was in support of, 'World Suicide Prevention Day', 10 September, 2018 and filmed at Heuston railway station, Dublin.

I have passed on the link to a friend who helps with the Samaritans and wondered if you maybe also know someone who might benefit if you share it with.

@https://youtu.be/_vV_yHGl0kg

My own experience of listening would not have been replete without a 'Fortean' twist at the end - the video was followed by an advert:

"If you were born before 1969 and have not yet prepaid your funeral costs...".

 

[Swifty]

WHAT?.. ABOUT HALF PAST TWO?! ..

.. the hearing aid museum, 1967 - Pathe News

Hearing Aid Museum (1967) - YouTube

 

[Austin Popper]

Eh?

 

[maximus otter]

l want this T-shirt:

(MP5)

maximus otter

 

[Swifty]

l want this T-shirt:

(MP5)

maximus otter

You are that shirt.

 

[Swifty]

Dog not happy about being left in car

Dog blasting horn (must see!!!) - YouTube

 

[Yithian]

You'll have to do the inflation sums, but some of these look amazing value.

Hawkwind must be the biggest bang for one's buck here.

 

[Swifty]

You'll have to do the inflation sums, but some of these look amazing value.

Hawkwind must be the biggest bang for one's buck here.

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I've got a play list that I scooped off a stage floor at a rave in the early 90's that looks a bit like this ... famous rave acts and what they were being payed cash in hand back then that night crudely scribbled out by someone using a blue biro .. it's in one of my scrap books. Someone might want to buy it off me one day hopefully, you can still read exactly what each famous DJ was payed ..

 

[kamalktk]

 

[maximus otter]

You'll have to do the inflation sums, but some of these look amazing value.

Hawkwind must be the biggest bang for one's buck here.

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Steeleye Span - Yes - Emerson, Lake and Palmer: the makings of a good weekend.

maximus otter

 

[Lord Lucan]

Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore take on the Thunderbirds.

 

[cycleboy2]

You'll have to do the inflation sums, but some of these look amazing value.

Hawkwind must be the biggest bang for one's buck here.

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That's absolutely fascinating, and a real snapshot. I'm weirded out by Roy Harper being worth twice as much as Hawkwind, as I don't remember him ever being that big a name; Slade at £150? Must have been when they were well out of favour; Deep Purple, ELP and Family were riding high, followed by the likes of the Incredible String Band, T-Rex, Alan Price/Georgie Fame, Fairport Convention, Yes and Rory Gallagher.

I'm 57 and started going to gigs in the mid-to-late Seventies but even I've seen a few of those acts: the Bonzos, Fairport Convention, Rory Gallagher, Roy Harper, Hawkwind (many, many times), members of Stackridge playing for other bands and Steeleye Span.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

That's absolutely fascinating, and a real snapshot. I'm weirded out by Roy Harper being worth twice as much as Hawkwind, as I don't remember him ever being that big a name; Slade at £150? Must have been when they were well out of favour; Deep Purple, ELP and Family were riding high, followed by the likes of the Incredible String Band, T-Rex, Alan Price/Georgie Fame, Fairport Convention, Yes and Rory Gallagher.

I'm 57 and started going to gigs in the mid-to-late Seventies but even I've seen a few of those acts: the Bonzos, Fairport Convention, Rory Gallagher, Roy Harper, Hawkwind (many, many times), members of Stackridge playing for other bands and Steeleye Span.

I guess it's "pre-breakout" Slade?

 

[hunck]

I always thought he had something of an old rock star look about him..

 

[Peripart]

You'll have to do the inflation sums, but some of these look amazing value.

Hawkwind must be the biggest bang for one's buck here.

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I've only heard of "Mogul Thrash" because they were referred to in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Even then, I hadn't really twigged that they were a band.

Ralph McTell £250? That's a lot of money for one song!

 

[feinman]

Nifty jewelry:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/martymagic?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=913653023
https://www.etsy.com/listing/913653...klace-and?ref=shop_home_active_33&frs=1&sca=1
This is all over but cool, nonetheless:
Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie and others come alive (creepily), thanks to AI:
https://www.livescience.com/ai-animates-historic-photos-creepily.html

 

[Yithian]

There are cooler aircraft out there for sure, but have you seen one this cute?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1367579208373825539

 

[Swifty]

Play chess against whatsherface from The Queen's Gambit ..

The Kilobyte’s Gambit 1k chess game (vole.wtf)

 

[gordonrutter]

Play chess against whatsherface from The Queen's Gambit ..

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The Kilobyte’s Gambit 1k chess game (vole.wtf)

Or. It, she’s cheating. The board is set up incorrectly. The white square should be to her right.