What Can't You Find On The Internet?

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!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fat-boy-taunts-turned-me-into-a-killer-563701

there was a TV documentary about this case but I can't find any trace of it online, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about finding it?

a calculator that specifically uses assembly language rules/quirks; this is the thing a computer was designed made to do

I think it was posted here. There was a good story about an indie band playing with Marilyn Manson in the early 90s before he was thing and the weirdness that went with it.

https://imposemagazine.com/features/arab-on-radar-satan-has-a-new-name-tonight
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Lol monster voodoo machine being meathead jocks.

So many shitty jock bands rebranding themselves as “industrial”.

A video of the Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers, but it was filmed from inside the kitchen, so from the camera's POV everything in the room was just inexplicably hurling itself around

can anybody tell me who wrote this:

Any invective to paint is as good as any other.

i have a feeling that it's breton but i can't find anything online. maybe it was my own translation, and the "official" translation is worded differently ? i'm at a total loss.

It's not invective, it's incentive. Google has a few hits; seems most likely to be Robert Rauschenberg.

there is one goofy tv commercial actor I don’t know the name of... he was in a credit card commercial that took place in an airport, with him bragging to his colleague that he knows where in the airport to find a three prong plug... he looks kinda like a really dumb Harrison Ford. I don’t know why I care about this.

I don’t know why I care about this.

The best kind of questions for this thread!

a free audio file converter (specifically FLAC >>> AIFF for playing lossless music on iTunes) that doesn't strip the files of metadata in the conversion process (?)

does fre:ac strip metadata?

no it does not ! thank you.

XLD doesn't strip data also.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

does lag∞n have a car thread? or do i just want him to have a car thread? either way, what's the best general car advice thread? my car was recently totaled and i've narrowed down my used car options to THREE.

Just start a new thread on I Love Cars and cross your fingers for the SNA gods to shine a light on you

Thanking you

video footage of tyrone hill as bandleader on the TV show "barbeque with bobby seale"

I feel like this happens more and more. Really basic stuff that I'm positive some nerdling enthusiast out there has written a loving set of linked pages about in, like, 2004, but which the search engines of 2020 cannot find.

How did people train dogs in the early modern period, or the middle ages? In fact, at any time before WWI? No idea. I can't find it.

There's tons of this kind of thing. I feel like the web used to be MORE searchable/available/transparent somehow.

The transformation of search engines to commercial money machines has a lot to do with it. Google and the likes are so utterly useless nowadays, it's criminal. They don't search for you any more, they throw up links/adds/sponsored content the algorithm thinks you want/need when in fact you don't. Is there one search engine still that actually does what it should be doing?

yeah i've complained about this like six times on threads like this one. even sticking words in quotation marks doesn't always work any more. remember when finding a link in Google meant that the word you searched for was actually on that page and not merely imagined by Google? ughghhhhhhhh.

yeah i get pretty infuriated when i search a term and get a list of irrelevant google results that dont include one of the key words, and google generously gives me the option to search again with results that "must include [key word in the term is was searching]". Like yeah, no shit google, I want my search to include that word, thats why i fuckin typed it ya dingus

Google search is an absolute shitshow

You can even turn off ads in DDG, I see no reason not to have that as your default search engine

yeah i get pretty infuriated when i search a term and get a list of irrelevant google results that dont include one of the key words

You can even turn off ads in DDG, I see no reason not to have that as your default search engine

I use DDG as my default, but if I'm trying to find something a bit trickier to pin down, google is almost always better. As Alba suggests, I think more than anything it's a "too much irrelevant and useless shit on the internet" problem.

speaking of pinning things down, Google returns an astounding number of useless Pinterest pages for many, many of my searches.

-site:pinterest.com to exclude that shot

For some searches overwhelmed by guff, I sometimes throw reddit into the search terms to at least nudge it towards text written by a human.

To be fair to google, a shitload of information that was around in 2004 will no longer be there. Geocities, myspace, other defunct blogging platforms, unrenewed personal domains and sites. The barrier to publishing on the internet is low, but it's not well designed for data persistence.

Yeah Alba I do that, but surely 'the best search engine in the world' shouldn't require a lot of nerdy operators in the search in order to return high-quality results. Most of Pinterest is search spam as far as I can tell. A few relevant-ish images pinned to the top of a page and then thousands of referral links for the rest of it. Come to think of it, that's what most pages on the internet are now, though.

many former google SEO employees now work elsewhere, one of the reasons why Pinterest is seeded so high in their searches as they know how the algo is gamed.

yeah they're a sharp bunch