What Can't You Find On The Internet?

Thanks, awesome!

The video "Kitty is a very bad mystic" is back on YouTube after many years gone.

Jimmie Walker "Swamp Country" OST (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8XCQI3bB4

https://www.ebay.com/itm/JIMMY-WALKER-SWAMP-COUNTRY-LP-SWAMPER-RECORDS-OKEFENOKEE-SWAMP/352261732274?hash=item52046f77b2%3Ag%3AxbAAAOSwDApaZjdd&_sacat=0&_nkw=swamp+country+jimmy+walker&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

a friend of mine had this LP and busted it out at a party once and it blew everyone's mind. amazing psychedelic 60's swamp garage country music.

i've only found this used record for sale and it's $170. there are a few tracks on youtube but i want to hear the full record again.

$80 https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/662249432

Early 70s (?) UK public information film which features a long haired man who get his hair caught in some machinery. Needless to say, quite gruesome.

El Looks - Whole Lotta Love cover as mentioned in the Wire August 2018 Invisible Jukebox - described by one Edan Portsmouth as "the best shit he's heard all day". I can't even find it mentioned anywhere on the internet let alone hear it.

"El Pooks" stoopid fat fingers.

a skit that aired between programs on Nickelodeon between ≈ 1997 and 1999. a food fight breaks out in a school cafeteria, but all the kids stop what they're doing and shut up when a preppy girl climbs on a table, says "check this!", and performs a slam poem/rap to the effect of "I don't even care that y'all got mashed potatoes on my Limited Too cardigan, but can't we all just get along and be more mature?", peppering her speech with weird archaic slang (I'm pretty sure she calls her clothes "duds"). it wasn't as ubiquitous as the Muzzy commercial, but for a while it seemed to air after just about every show

I hope someone can help me out here (even if it's just to say "I remember this!") because I don't wanna have to take this to reddit

#only90skidswillrememberthis

About a year or two (or three) ago I read an article/blog post about a mum who was addicted to using her baby tracker/breastfeeding app far past the point of it being useful. I can't find it anywhere - I feel like the author was someone from the Awl or the Hairpin or somewhere like that? Someone a bit cool perhaps. Trying to find it is making me really angry at Google for finding results for things I AM NOT SEARCHING FOR

the ad for Rax (an fast food restaurant in the USA) in the late 80s/early 90s with the song “the house that Rax built” to the tune of “the house that Jack built”

this is shameful but i can't seem to remember the name of the thread for appreciating ilxors. i skimmed through my bookmarks but i seem to have several hundred of them so

Do you mean this one:

Say something nice about another ILXor

?

definitely, thank you!

Pleasure.

ok i should have tagged this one better

but there was on youtube an ad for some kind of oil company from central or south america from the 1970s, and the song for it was just absolutely great, a fantastic song

it wasn't os mutantes' shell jingle, it was longer than that (i feel it was maybe two minutes but i could be mistaken on that)

i know it's somewhere in my music library, but i can't find it, and i haven't been able to for years.

anybody know? i know it's not much to go on, you know what if you post an awesome south american oil company jingle from the '70s and it's not the one i'm thinking of i promise i won't be offended :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNc1I6Xzck

the 1990 ad for Tairrie B's Power of a Woman whose slogan was "Say It Loud, She's White And She's Proud."

the early 1990s ad for Derrick Coleman's sneakers (British Knights??) where he says "eat right...practice hard...and I'll STILL kick your ass"

a pillow shaped like a cruton and hard like a cruton

Cover versions of Russ Abbot's Atmosphere in the style of Joy Division and Joy Division's Atmosphere in the style of Russ Abbot.

There's a bad attempt at a mashup.on YouTube but these were pretty well done original recordings.

I'm sure this was on Bandcamp in its very early days.

is there a thread for identifying contemporaneous (or recent) things that will be later be identified with the era? instant nostalgia? (like buzzfeed quizzes and early 2010s)

Oh I know what what you're looking for.

This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find

But srsly, are you talking about the thread you started? https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=107702&action=showall

Haha, nope, although it’s kind of related to that theory!

Schwa? Burned brightly, left very little. I still have a Schwa mug, that just about changes colour.

International long-haul flight times and prices in the 1970s and 1980s, even in the 1990s. I recently went to Hong Kong, and I wanted to see how the trip had changed over time. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to be covered by enthusiasts, but sadly no. How long was a flight from London to Hong Kong in the 1980s? Which aircraft did BA use? When did they switch to the 747-400? Where did flights stop off before the 747 made non-stop flight practical? How much did it cost? Could you smoke? What was it like to smoke for twelve hours? IF the cabin was full of smoke, did you need to have a cigarette or could you just breath very heavily? Etc.

There are a few threads on Airliners.net with useful information but for the most part the site is FUCKING DELTA THIS AND DELTA THAT sorry I got angry there. The entire front page of the commercial aviation section is always FUCKING DELTA THIS ETC, and I mean not literally but you get the gist. Airliners.net is great if you want to read a bunch of boring sixty-something Americans sharing reminiscences about how Delta's livery was better in the 1960s / they had fewer gates at Miami in the 1970s / the seats were orange / etc. Absolutely fucking useless if you want to find out about long-haul international flight that didn't originate or terminate in the US.

I shouldn't be angry at them. They write about what they know. I should be angry at the British, for failing to dominate the internet. The very first message in this thread talks about the lack of concrete information on the NOW compilations, and that's not the fault of the Americans, it's the fault of the British for failing to dominate Wikipedia. Too busy renting out overpriced houses to each other.

But, yes, long-haul international flight. What else? Ages ago there was a terrific website called F1 Rejects, that had articles about drivers who failed to make it in Formula One - it was knowledgeable and generally even-handed, because a lot of drivers had the skill but were let down by terrible teams. Sadly it's now only available via the Internet Archive, but incomplete:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041204103041/http://f1rejects.com:80/main.html

Early-2000s I remember a website about "Robot Ron", a man who dressed up in a red cardboard robot suit and had adventures. The basic design of the robot was either borrowed or coincidentally used by ExplodingDog, which is another one of those long-forgotten Generation One websites that continued long past the point when it was relevant and yet it would feel sad when it stopped, which it did.

is there a thread for identifying contemporaneous (or recent) things that will be later be identified with the era? instant nostalgia? (like buzzfeed quizzes and early 2010s)

Did I mention that I still have my bookmarks from the early 2000s? I still have all the bookmarks I saved in the early 2000s. Do people still have bookmarks? They were a thing many years ago but I have a hunch that most people nowadays only visit the same dozen or so websites, all major publishers, with links to Youtube etc. Bookmarks were necessary back when the internet was more fragmented, because pages appeared and disappeared without a trace really quickly. Nowadays independent one-off webpages are uncommon and it's doubly uncommon for them to get any exposure.

I've saved and imported that bookmarks file repeatedly. It will be used against me when the authorities crack down. Flicking through it, I still wonder what connection there was between hentai and IBM's OS/2 Warp. Why combine the two? What did they have in common? It's safe for work, but odd:
http://www.serina.org/~achain/os2/gallery.html.en

That's a vintage URL. It has a tilde sign and it looks weird. Scrolling further down I find a comparison of the Canon 5D and 1Ds, but it's no longer live:
http://bui4ever.com/2008/07/canon-eos-1ds-versus-canon-eos-5d/

At first I thought it was poignant. The website is called Bui4ever, but it's down. Obviously not forever. The man's Flickr account has some cosplay photographs from 2011, at which point he stopped and vanished from the internet. However it turns out he was a massive perv:
https://www.themarysue.com/cosplay-photographer-child-porn/

That probably explains why he decided to de-internet. Scrolling further down the oldest link that still looks decent is, oddly enough, an article about Formula 1 races from 1999:
http://atlasf1.autosport.com/99/dec15/tytler.html

Gosh, 2006-2007 really was the heyday of blogs. Here's a video of a large foam mannequin in Iceland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56jr2RZej18

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.