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09 September 2005

I love the dead people AND the toys. And I want one of those Buddha marbles.
posted by maryh 09 September | 07:07
*swoon* What great links - the toys! I absolutely love the carousels, and the log cabin doll house. And the general store. I'd love to own them - I'd start my very own town and I would be the benevolent mayor. The town would be populated exclusively by vintage robots.

Don't you think that this girl, taken from the random images at the top left corner of the Ukraine site, needs a really good conditioner?

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posted by iconomy 09 September | 08:58
Perhaps iconomy but I was more concerned with what laws I was breaking or whether or not my fancy has a psychiatric diagnosis in my having a crush on a dead woman from that page..
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posted by peacay 09 September | 09:03
These dead people, they must have had a lot of money to be able to buy those toys.

An excellent set of links. I like the feeling of that livejournal page.
posted by omiewise 09 September | 09:20
(Oh, and the real question is whether you have a thing for amputees.)
posted by omiewise 09 September | 09:21
I have a crush on Humphrey Bogart (I still remember how devastated I was as a teenager when my mother told me he'd been dead for years and years already), so I completely understand.
posted by iconomy 09 September | 09:24
Arms/legs...I don't care. It's those eyes! I wonder if she has descendents..hmmm? I love vintage photos.
And money is right - I recall seeing a set of marbles there for $7500!!! Oy.
posted by peacay 09 September | 09:35
Lovely links, peacay - the livejournal set had some wangdang doozies. This one blows me away:

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And what a great toy link!

You know, of the many, many, many MeFi posts I researched and put together all sorts of links for... then never posted, I did one on vintage robot toys, and one on marbles, and I never did come across that site.
posted by taz 09 September | 10:03
Thanks taz. You remind me of a couple of things I was thinking during the 3 hour jaunt those links sent me on last night..

First, I can't/couldn't rememeber how I found them -- I had gone on one of those random clicking tours through a range of sidebar linksets and subsequent linksets and so on. I'd love some way of recording these surfing forays -- the actual map of the direction my randomness took me. I know Anita Rowland for example has a sidebar where she records her morning/afternoon link sites visited (but I want something complete and automatic). I know we have 'history' and there's google history but I find I want to know say the 12th previous site from the 3rd last one I saw last night and the like. So that's my first wish.

Also, it's kind of frustrating sometimes when you find a nice site and before researching to make up an FPP, you need to search at MeFi. And these days, with so many linkblogs and compiling sites, I find it's best to also search at technorati, delicious linkbacks and sometimes icerocket +/- similar places like maybe plep & giornale nuovo etc, just, you know, so I don't add to any saturation out there kind of thing and also to see how long links have been posted to any weblogs - it gives a feel as to whether it's worthwhile pursuing.
So I want a custom search page (and yes I suppose I should school myself in HTML a bit more) that will search all of these places at once and open all the results in separate tabs.

So anyway, I found these nice toy and photo sites and went searching around, ironically enough for rocket type toys (as one potential FPP) and ended up searching and reading/looking through a whole bunch of sites like Italian futurism and a bunch of other sites already posted (and got hooked into reading the posts/messages and their links) or otherwise didn't really come up with enough suitable links.

And I vaguely thought about a post on Ukraine but baulked and went to go to bed and throw away all the links so to speak, but as a final thought, I bookmarked them. So they ended up here as presented because I thought they were worth sharing but I didn't know how to build them individually into something of sufficient substance for MeFi.

I've also got a bunch of stuff 'topost' in delicious that I have/had vague ideas of mining and constructing FPPs with. So I wonder taz, why did you not post all the sets you've researched in the past and/or do you intend posting them in the future? I'm just curious.
posted by peacay 09 September | 10:52
Lately I've been using the advanced search at Google to determine whether or not to post something at MetaFilter. I use the Find pages that link to the page option to see how many blogs and link dumps have already mentioned the site. If it's more than a few, I decide not to post it.

It's fun to check back a few days later and run the same link through Google to see how many sites have picked up on it since it was posted to MetaFilter.
posted by iconomy 09 September | 11:17
Very nice, thanks.
posted by safetyfork 09 September | 12:08
peacay, I don't know why I do that sometimes. Basically, it just starts with something I get intrigued with, and I start following links, etc., and somewhere along the line, I think "this would make a good post", so I start putting together a list of the urls, or I have one page open with multiple tabs... And I guess by the time I've sort of exhausted that path I get distracted or I have to go do something else, and I think - "ah, well, I'll post this a little later", and then... I don't. Just me-weirdness.

I, too, would like some sort of tracking history thing like you're talking about, or a way to "ding" certain pages that I visit, then get all the dinged-pages to open up in tabs, so that as one is going around following links on a certain subject, you basically are putting paperclips on the ones you think you want to include in a post, but you don't have to stop and organize or deal with them as you're surfing... Then after you're finished looking around, press the magic button and, "ding!" up pops all the paperclipped pages in tabs.
posted by taz 09 September | 13:37
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