Comics: The Ghost Who Walks


The Phantom.
(click the image to enlarge)
Find more at DataJunkie!

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Problem: YouTube Freezing

I've been experiencing YouTube problems again... sigh! But - I also think I've found the solution! :D



The problem: When trying to watch the videos they load but won't play more than a second or so - it freezes.
The solution: Closing down Skype. There seems to be a conflict between the two.

Maybe this information is relevant to you too.
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UPDATE: Well I'm not so sure how relevant it was even to me. The problem came back so I googled some more and I hope this is going to help at least me: FireFox Support: Flash animations (like youtube video) stops playing after 2 seconds
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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Vintage Photos: Lion in a sidecar



"This is a picture
of people racing in a motorcycle and a go-cart with a sidecar with a lion in it on a vertical wall-of-death."

uploaded by wondrousstrange at
LiveJournal - Vintage Photographs

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Ephemera: German Sheet Music


This is the cover of a German early 1930's book of sheet music. I admit it's also a repost from about three years ago, but hey it's summertime. And it is beautiful. Right?
Here you can find another nice one that I found in the same thrift store.

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Album Covers: Brazilian Style


Brazilian album cover art.
Find more at Sabadabada! This is actually sort of a repost from three years ago but I was inspired by this post at Grain Edit.

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Magazine Covers: FON FON


Vintage Brazilian magazine cover
from Gatochy's Flickr (Gatochy's blog)

"Illustration by artist Gil Brandão.
Image kindly donated by Ciana Bodini of A Colecionista blog. Ilustração Portuguesa blog."

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Blog: Vintage Poster


Vintage Poster

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Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part1




Who is The Spirit?

By the way, there's gonna be a lot of hoopla about The Spirit later this year on the count of the Frank Miller movie version hitting the theaters in December. (Trailer). I'm rather skeptical... OK, no more free advertisement from me about that, but maybe I'll post a few more The Spirit cover pages. The creator Will Eisner's designs of these are probably what I love most about the comic.

Visit Will Eisner.com.

One other thing. Movies has been based on comic book characters for a long long time and you've probably noticed that they produce more of those movies now than ever before. It is probably due to the movie industry's lack of "own" ideas and the fact that there is hardly no technical limitations left to what you can visualize on screen. And just think about all the merchandise you can sell if you make a hit. That's got to a be tempting prospect. Anyway here are a few interesting and related Wikipedia links:

-List of films based on English-language comics
-List of comics based on films
-Superhero film
-List of films based on DC Comics
-List of films based on Marvel Comics

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