What Can't You Find On The Internet?

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.

Where is the Paul K & The Weathermen thread on ILM?

A CD EP of electronic ambient music from around 1993 that had maybe three tracks on it including one long (20-30 minute) song called something like Rainbows Over The Happiest Man On Earth. Purchased for £1 in Mr. CD on Berwick St. IIRC.

It was in a standard jewel case and had a red cover with perhaps a yellow oval design in the center. I can't recall the artist's name.

this incredibly detailed and engrossing account of a european guy who took the trans-siberian railway to pyongyang, it was one of my favorite things online and i fear it's gone

This one? http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com.

sorry - what's the best all-purpose Garden/plants thread on ILX?

(this is one of those situations where it would be so nice to be able to see the total number of posts per thread in the Search Results, or to see the last date that they were updated. there are so many threads related to plants and gardens)

There's a rolling one each year


Gardening 2020

Thanks Alba!