What Can't You Find On The Internet?

those are some awesome links! i too, still use bookmarks

loving your updates

My bookmarks have been replaced by simply having 318 tabs open at any given time.

I recently exhumed my old del.icio.us bookmarks, all 781 of them. Seems to be mostly recipes and music and things to read, that I never cooked or listened to or read and never will. I'm not sure what was so hilarious about tracking down all the sightings of a named but unspeaking marine in Aliens, either for me or the people behind the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060610141834/http://wierzbowski.net/ ; or why I was so keen to find out why Roger Ebert made some blog's "cunt list": https://web.archive.org/web/20060517070459/http://www.nonstuff.com/archives/2005/12/22/432/

I too have a lot of bookmarks from earlier Internet times. For me it was less the hilarity of the chase and more my own sanity, especially in pre g00gle days when search results were more random. Interesting discoveries were more likely the result of accident rather than design, the old adage of surfing the net, jumping off from one site to another via blog links for example.

Nowadays the fun in reopening old bookmarks is more to do with seeing that they are still there than their content.

I remember The Wierzbowski Hunters. It was one of those things that was probably mentioned briefly in a column in Wired once. I learn from the Aliens Wiki that his first name was Trevor. According to the Wiki he said "AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH", and then he said "AAAARRRGGGHHH".

Also on my list is "The Observation of a shadow of the moon in the underground muon flux in the Soudan-2 detector", an academic paper with a name that sounds like a Silver Mt Zion song:
http://inspirehep.net/record/500335

A blog post from the far-distant world of 2008 in which a man reads the Oxford English Dictionary:
https://blog.oup.com/2008/03/ammon_shea/

"... trondhjemite is defined as 'Any leucocratic tonalite, esp. one in which the plagioclase is oligoclase'. In a similar vein, self-feeling is defined as 'used to render coenaethesis', and occupatio is simply 'preterition'."

So today I have learned, or rather re-learned, the word coenaethesis. I learned it in 2008 when I first read that blog post and now I have re-learned it. It is apparently "the bodily awareness of one's own body". Preterition is "the rhetorical technique of mentioning something by professing to omit it".

An article by Kevin Janni of the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Minnesota on the optimum placement of supplementary cooling fans in cow barns:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020918094032/http://www.ansci.umn.edu/dairy/dinews/11-2-hotair.htm

"For cooling fans to do much good, they should move air past the cows at a minimum of 200 to 400 feet per minute (2.2 to 4.5mph). Some researchers in warmer climates have suggested higher velocities, but there is no consensus. Excessive air velocities are not economical and add little additional cooling benefit. As air temperature nears a cow's body temperature (around 102F), increased air movement becomes less effective at cooling."

An interview with Jimmy Haun, a session guitarist who was hired to play most of the guitar on Union by Yes, which was recorded at a time when there were lots of people in the band but none of them were speaking to each other:
http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/iv/jhinterview.htm

It appears he was hired not because Steve Howe was rubbish but because he didn't want to be in the room at the same time as Trevor Rabin (the other guitarist) and Jon Anderson (who was "associate producer", e.g. he sat in the control room and vetoed things).

Definitely going to check out the OED link, thanks!

a video of a person dancing in a grey/pink/purple outfit with 4 skeleton attached on sticks, so they're dancing too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibW33sMXCNI

No, that can't be it...

Hello! Is there a name for this style of lettering in railings:

http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/queensway5.jpg http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/queensway3.jpg

http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/ibh.html

...where the shape of the letters is flattened into the (regularly spaced) railings, so that you can see it at an angle?

(Thanks! There was an example near here - not one of the above - but they've taken the railings down and I wish to bemoan its absence to everyone like the very interesting person I am)

i don't know what the technical name is, but i would say the railing is "tricked out"

They should make a mile-long fence railing like that and trick it out with an animation of, I dunno, the Tasmanian Devil tackling the Road Runner or something.

As akin to a flip book animation, in other words.

i was going through some old mp3s that i've had since my college days (06 - 09) and i stumbled across a bad remix of my bloody valentine's "Loveless" that's simply titled "Loveless(oopsed)". I have no idea what it is or why i have it but i suspect it's from a music blog from around that time. does anyone have any clue what is supposed to be or what blog it may have been from? maybe i should post this on ILM but i can find nothing about it on the internet from whence it came.

don't know where you could find it but you could probably recreate it pretty easily, it's just been processed into Out of Phase Stereo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Of_Phase_Stereo

basically it removes the center channel and leaves left and right panned channel. the one mp3 i still have from that fad is pink floyd's "let there be more light" which is left with only the chipmunk vocals when OOPSed.

https://i.imgur.com/vtqJE2b.jpg

can anyone find a single piece of information about Ching Sun Tran, the girl on the cover of Kathy Mattea and Michael McDonald's 1999 National Center for Missing & Exploited Children benefit single Among the Missing? a Google search for her name (and reverse GIS for her headshot) yields 0 results, and she doesn't appear in the NCMEC's missing kids database. it's possible that the cover artist misspelled or weirdly romanized her name, though nobody with a similar name/appearance shows up when I expand my database search to include all missing Asian girls, everyone who went missing on 10/28/95, etc. if she's still missing after all these years, then there'll almost definitely be a reference to her on one of the myriad websites devoted to missing American children; otoh if she was found 3+ years after her disappearance, then her case most likely made the local (if not national) news, and her name should appear in at least one news archive even if there's no longer any mention of her on the surface web. otooh she could be a hoax perpetrated by whoever uploaded the artwork to discogs/rym, or maybe the original artwork was based upon false information and there never was a missing girl with that face/name. idk.

fwiw I'm not trying to play detective and solve a missing person case. I was simply curious enough to Google the four kids on the cover (+ the eight other kids on the two alternate versions of it) to see what became of them. of the eleven children documented online, Jaycee Dugard was the only one found alive :(

There must be something wrong with how they printed her name, either out of order or misspelled.

Like you probably, I now know many people went missing that day. It was a Saturday.

I also know Tucson, Arizona, has a transportation system called "Sun Tran".

And I can't wait to bust this one out at Crazee McCool's Cafe:

https://i.imgur.com/CP52Gu2.png

It bothers me too that information about this missing girl... is missing.

hmm, maybe investigators learned that their prime suspect was a McDonald/Doobies completist, so they used the "Among the Missing" artwork to notify him that they were on his trail and that it would be in his best interests to "ride like the wind" to the nearest police station and turn himself in. "Ching" might be the name of the abductor's first childhood pet, XXX-10-2895 might be his social security number, and the girl in the photo might have gone missing after getting off a Sun Tran bus.

by the same turn, law enforcement will probably be alerted the moment someone selects "Among the Missing" at a karaoke night anywhere in the US. the perp has held out for 20 years, but I doubt he can hold out forever.

I think I have a pretty solid case here, probably gonna post a writeup on r/unresolvedmysteries in a bit

That is weird, because the three other kids pictured are very easy to find.

This is a real stretch but the only thing I can think of is that her name suggests that she may be of mixed heritage (Vietnamese & presumably Southern Chinese) and her parents had different ways of romanizing her legal name which may have been quite different from her common name.

("very easy to find" was an unfortunate choice of words, please forgive me.)

Video of Regis Philbin completely screwing up the New Year’s Eve countdown. Does anybody else remember this? I don't remember what year it was, probably mid-2000s. His earpiece was on a delay so the countdown was delayed and he got confused, so he was like “Eight! Seven! Six!... Five!..... Six!” and by that time he realizes the ball has already dropped and he finishes “Five-Four-Three-Two- One!!” It's amazing how evidence of this incident has completely vanished from the internet. Can't find it on youtube, can't find any article mentioning it. But it definitely happened. We all were watching it live and we kept rewinding it because we couldn't believe how badly he screwed it up. Happy New Year, everyone.

Wow, it sounds like Regis really .... ... dropped the ball.

saw it on twitter maybe a year ago, it was a video of the azerbaijani (?) president on state TV making a speech and he had like a giant golden hammer. it was absurd and kind of awesome. google is no help of course

That could be gold-loving madman Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic.

google is no help of course

Any means of acquiring a digital copy of Saw Mill Man by Cast King. Someone help!

it's on soulseek

what "tbrr" means

i have always wondered too

i have decided on "to be really real"

That is correct

good to know! this is why i occasionally use tbrrrrr, to emphasize my point

Can't have too many rs tbrrrrrrrrrr with you

Ah, thanks, I was considering "to be right real", which wasn't too far off then.

i can't believe i was right about "to be really real" - that's always been a wild guess that i never bothered to confirm

but the proof is in the pudding: ABBREVS

A good-quality image of the painting from Ghostbusters II without Vigo in it? I'd settle for an Amazon Prime screenshot from anyone who subscribes to it.

I have no idea if anything of the kind exists but if it does and anyone can hip me: a relatively comprehensive/obsessive discography of '60s girl group singles?

it seems like the kind of thing that should be there

evidence of that thing they had in the shopko music department in the 90s, where you could press a button and cue up the latest alernative nation-y video of your choice. I think tmbg's "snail shell" may have been one of them?

Old Lunch, this article scratches the surface but also has a pretty extensive list of sources:

https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/1960s-girl-groups/

wow! i've never seen that website. just skimmed that article now, and it seems decent!

Whoa, thanks Albert! Yeah, there's some opportunities for deep digging in there.

the ads for Joker rolling papers they used to play on 96 Rock back in the day

there was a box set of girl group singles released on cd in the early 00s? i think a friend copied it for me but i don't remember what it's called

that was not very helpful but i know what you are looking for exists!

this https://www.discogs.com/Various-One-Kiss-Can-Lead-To-Another-Girl-Group-Sounds-Lost-And-Found/release/1232218

oh yeah! i was working in a cd store when that came out! i was too young and dumb to realize how good it would be, so i never put it on to listen to at the time! i probably sold it to some cool person though

time to learn from the mistakes of my past and listen now!

When I was a college DJ several thousand years ago, these Romulan comps were pretty fun (at least the early ones were, I had no idea there were so many editions):

https://www.discogs.com/label/568602-Girls-In-The-Garage

Yes, One Kiss Can Lead to Another is pretty much my favorite compilation of all time. But thank you for evoking it!

This period of isolation might be the time for me to finally compile my tracklisting for the unofficial follow-up, This Would Be the Second Kiss I Alluded to Previously. I'm certain that I have enough top-notch material on-hand. The world of girl groups is bottomless and almost entirely wonderful!

The Girls in the Garage comps are likewise great.

I have hundreds of these things but I know that thousands exist. I'm looking for the hundreds and hundreds that I don't have.