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Time Magazine Covers: America vs. the World
I found this interesting, but didn’t want to spread a content aggregator¹ article all over the internet – it’s infected enough. Hey, they scrape content all the time, so I figured turnabout is fair...
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1898: A Free Pound of Coffee with Every Pair of Shoes
This interesting receipt showed up in some Georgia probate files. Prices back then were insane, compared to today’s – but one must also factor in wages and overall cost of living. According to various...
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Don’t Click That Ad
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, clickbait ads are everywhere. They are the spam of the World Wide Web, unwanted intrusions into your browsing experience, and like spam, the vast majority of these ads are...
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Keeping Welsh (and Bees) Alive.
Note: This article was originally published at FT.com (Financial Times). It is copyright. They have indicated that these articles can be shared with their “sharing tools,” and added, “Please don’t cut...
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New York, 1925
This colorized image (color by redditor /u/kibblenbits, one of the best colorizers out there) is very pleasing. My father would have been 14 when this picture was taken, which despite its...
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New York, 1905
WordPress is strange; I realized I had gotten the date wrong on this photo in my previous effort; I could update the post, but the URL stayed the same and included the wrong date, so I had to trash...
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Movie Review: Tomorrowland. The best film I’ve seen so far in 2015.
Caution: Mild spoilers ahead. I’ll try not to give too much away. Here’s a review of “Tomorrowland” by some pretentious soul who holds himself or herself out as a film critic: “An aggressively...
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1935: Outside Water Supply in DC
July 1935. “Outside water supply, Washington, D.C. Only source of water supply winter and summer for many houses in slum areas. In some places drainage is so poor that surplus water backs up in huge...
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Unfortunate Advertising Coincidences
I don’t have AdBlocker on my mobile device, so I see all sorts of garbage. On occasion, however, what I see is amusing enough that I’m not even mad. Below a capture from an article where Bernie Sanders...
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The Greatest Summer Homework List Ever
The dreaded summer reading list. For most kids, summer is a time when they can forget about school, but many teachers want to keep their thumbs in that glorious time of blissful forgetfulness. Not that...
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An .EXE file is not an invoice
Today’s scam email: From: “Agnessa Arina” <agnessaarina@yahoo.es> To: redacted Subject: FW::deposit invoice copy Hi, we are updating our company email address so i’m sending you the outstanding...
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Spam as Tabloid
Redditor /u/RamsesThePigeon cleverly took the contents of his spam box and turned it into tabloid covers. The irony is that the real thing looks just about like this. Well-done indeed.
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Oregon: A Lawless Waste of Fugitive Malefactors. Well, not really.
Here’s John Oliver, one of my favorite mockers-of-social-folly, taking the wind out of the Bail Bond system in the USA: He mentioned that Oregon has a different landscape to play on, and redditor...
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Ingenious tattoo art
How to cover up a lousy job. Found this image at reddit; the work is by Lindsay Baker, who works at Niteowl Tattoo in Northampton, MA. 10 out of 10 stars. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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The Catacomb Saints: How many clickbait titles can you come up with?
From Wikipedia: Catacomb saints are ancient Roman corpses that were exhumed from the catacombs of Rome, given fictitious names and sent abroad as relics of saints from the 16th century to the 19th...
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A Letter from the “Assistant Secretary of State.”
Please us with this email again! Right, folks – the Bureau of Consular Affairs is going to use a foxmail address. For the love of all that’s holy, never respond to an email like this. If you do, you’re...
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Snyder, Texas, 1949
This welcome sign bears an unhappy footnote. The writer should see rents today. The Old Wolf has spoken
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1980 – National “Space Invaders” championship.
If you don’t remember the game, or just want to refresh your memory, you can give it a shot here. The Old Wolf has beep spoken.
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Text from Bank of America
No, your bank will not text you fraud alerts in this way. If you have any questions, call your financial institution directly – NEVER use the link included in a text like this. Bad actors are always...
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