What Can't You Find On The Internet?

Thanks, Aimless!

Supermarket Sweep! I remember watching on cable it as teen and thinking, "Only in America...".

can't be sure, but did it start in the UK?

certainly existed there in the mid 90's. you don't forget dale winton in a hurry

The American version must've been around in the early 90s, because I remember watching it when I was like 13.

According to Wikipedia:

The original show was broadcast on ABC (December 1965-July 1967), with revivals airing on Lifetime (February 1990-May 1995, reran until August 1998) and later PAX (April 2000-May 2003, reran until March 2004).

So it was 1990-95 version that I saw. The UK version started in 1993.

this feels so wrong

wk - is this what you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

Aha, thanks! I don't think that's exactly it, but it may have been one of the other ones they mention there. I didn't realize this was a whole genre and was starting to think it was a false childhood memory.

Finally found it. thanks again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure:_In_Search_of_the_Golden_Horse

no wonder this thing haunted me as a kid http://www.njcomputerguys.com/treasure/supplemental.mp4

Thing I can't find:

A feature article about a working-class black teenager who would weasel/con his way into the lives of wealthy folks by hanging around Upper East Side cellphone stores, charming young people, and presenting himself as part of their social scene. Constructed various amazing identities and wound up in prison.

I'm 90% positive this feature was either in the New York Press or the Village Voice, but I could be wrong.

Ah, never mind, I turned it up!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-02-27/news/the-blackberry-trickster/

didn't the wayons brothers do a movie something along those lines?!

The article actually makes parts of it sound more like Woody Allen's Zelig

Manual for casio f91 watch. This should be easy surely?

Gravel did you try this ting? No idea whether it'll work, as one needs the actual watch to use it.

I have trouble finding scripts for plays. even just samples (although Google has made that easier with that one feature they have). Mostly I find it useful when trying to prepare for an audition but not having time to go to the library first, or if it is after business hours.

Someone here should be able to help with this.

looking fot that quote about Sonic Youth (think it was Xgau) that "record collectors shouldn't form bands" or something to that effect

I know this is months late, but the video for "Ghost Town" was directed by Barney Bubbles. 

Advice needed: there's a book which is incredibly difficult to find (none 2nd-hand anywhere, for example), but it's just sitting on the LA public library shelves. I'm in Australia. How would one go about getting someone to photocopy/scan this sucker, and how would one pay them securely from the other side of the world, while being sure you'd get the scans? Seems like this is something other people must have done.

Can't you just email the library staff, surely they know if/how it can be done?

^I don't think library staff aren't going to assist you in copyright theft

*are

I'm pretty sure it isn't theft/violation of copyright law if you're a student. If not, it'd be a bit more dodgy. Is there no Australian equivalent of the British Library, i.e. a central repository of all books published in the country?

There is, but presumably the book has not been published in Australia?

try http://www.worldcat.org/

also, have you asked about arranging an interlibrary loan? its a long way, but ppl keep telling us the world's getting smaller

just out of curiosity, what's the book?

trying to find some kind of gif/jpeg of an internet toughguy typing out something he thinks is all barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism, but everyone else sees richard littlejohn. dunno if this exists but my facebook feed is getting cluttered with this kind of numbnut so desperately seeking handy gifbomb

It's 'Monday Morning', by Patrick Hamilton. And yes, doesn't seem to have had an Aus publication, only UK and US, and Worldcat tells me my nearest copy is Los Angeles!

If you want to pay somebody to do this, you could probably find someone on freelancer.com. I don't know what the going rate would be, though.

Will it actually be under copyright? Published 1925, author died 1962 - that's a long time ago.

And doesn't Ned live in LA and work in a library? He's an amiable fellow and might know someone who could help. (I may be making this up entirely)

Maybe try to contact Faber Finds (http://www.faber.co.uk/faberfinds/)?

They were maybe planning to republish it, according to one of the comments here: http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/patrick-hamilton-revisited/

trying to find some kind of gif/jpeg of an internet toughguy typing out something he thinks is all barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism, but everyone else sees richard littlejohn.

Sorry was this directed at me?

My comment wasn't supposed to be a "barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism" at all. The impression I got from the query was that the poster wanted to find someone to wholesale copy and scan a book for him from a library. In Britain at least, copying more that 5% of a book or one chapter is generally seen as copyright theft irrespective of whether or not you are student, so I don't think contacting library staff to ask to do this would be a smart move. I realise its LA and not the UK, but presumably the law isn't that different in the US.

I apologise if it is - sheesh.

james m. i would actually start with your local library (if you haven't already)--tell them your situation and ask them if they could reach out to some places that have this and do an interlibrary loan.

would be vastly easier if you were a student, but librarians do love a challenge.

xpost, eh? no not at all, like i said in my post its a cpl of folks off 'my facebook feed'. there is a lot of that shite on ilx tho obv but your comment seemed fairly legit

And I think Tuomas was rightly suggesting that the best people to ask in the first instance - which maybe James had already done - are librarians to see if they can help with getting it, perhaps through some kind of inter-library loan.

If he then finds that the copyright issue is the obstacle, he can make his own decision about whether to try to go ahead with another route.

(I used to be a librarian and loved a challenge of this sort, as call all destroyer says)

a thing that I think is not available online is extensive footage of Tottenham Hotspur playing in the Littlewoods Cup in 1987.

I will try challenging some local librarians--it certainly seems worth a shot!

Sadly, I was that person who said Faber Finds was going to do it (as I was told by their editor), but that never happened.

A pseudocode implementation of 'what starsign are ypu'.

Dear NI,

Give us something challenging!

http://forum.codecall.net/attachments/lounge/1274-internet-tough-guys-inet_tough_guy.jpg

ugh, messed that up

http://forum.codecall.net/attachments/lounge/1274-internet-tough-guys-inet_tough_guy.jpg

Dunno if this qualifies for this thread but I couldn't find a film locations thread. Anybody know what street in Roehampton this location is?

It's from Fahrenheit 451.

http://ardfilmjournal.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/451modernisthomes.jpg

Minstead Gardens? http://tinyurl.com/648uta9

(bits of Fahrenheit 451 were filmed on the Alton Estate, which that is part of - there are a couple of other streets of bungalows on that edge of the estate but that one looks closest to the layout in the pic, though they seem to have new windows, roofs and fences)

Amazing, thanks! Spent ages roving about on Google maps last night trying to find that damn street. Cheers..

The name of a book I had as a child, about a boy who was afraid of thunder and lightning, and the lighthouse keeper whe teaches him how to gauge the storm's distace by counting. (circa late 50's.)

thanks rockapads! that's good but if there's one with more of a "i am making an arch learned point, with a wildean dismissiveness" / U R DAILY MAIL COLUMNIST BASTARD feel to it then that'd be top dollar

Prince, and "Yr pokemons", you know the one..

not asking for a direct link or anything, but:

is there a good repository of high resolution artwork on the internet? For example, check this out: http://www.taktal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PaulKlee_DoubleTent_19231.jpg

Is there somewhere that would have it at 6 megapixels or higher?

Any kind of biography of J.W. Buel, an author of fantastic stories about explorers in Africa in the 19th century. All I have found so far is a list of his works. My interest was piqued when I started reading about real carnivorous plants on Wikipedia and at the tail end of the article there was a section on fictional examples which included "Depiction of a native being consumed by a Ya-te-veo ("I see you") carnivorous tree of Central America, from Land and Sea by J.W. Buel, 1887".

ok, not just Africa, tropical places in general. Beginning to wonder whether Buel was a pseudonym, perhaps of a more serious writer.

Not a biography, but more than a list of works: appears to be one of his books. Was pretty easy to find, so you may well have seen this already.

Charles M. Young interviewed Carly Simon for Rolling Stone in 1978, and he had what I remember as a funny line about Simon's baby. I wanted to quote it the other day, and I can't find it anywhere.