Sarah found this collection of propaganda posters on 12 September 2002. I can’t remember if the link to cafépress was there before or not.

Sarah, 27 August 2002: "Lesbian paperback artwork from the 50s and 60s. Which is to say, not artwork for or by lesbians, if you know what I mean, and I think you do."

Sarah again, 29 August 2002: "Online Canadian food retailer. As in, they sell only Canadian food. Yes, they have all-dressed chips! Can someone please fund my all futuristic food online store?"

Who could fail to love old packages?

Unlike sex itself, when writing about sex is bad, it’s very bad indeed.

It’s been a really windy day today, so the power is out in a lot of neighborhoods. For safety’s sake, stock up on glow in the dark shoes, or the kind with blinky lights in them. So practical and safety-concious!

Here’s a nifty little set of role-playing games set in the worlds of Victorian science fiction, and the stories of E. Nesbit! Also, a quite fab illustrated online Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)!

I’m glad to run across this, from Sarah, 7 October 2002, since I can never remember the site: "For my pal with hugely long legs and the broadest of shoulders (all the better to bear the weight of the world): SeatGURU. They have seat space ratings for lots of airlines and airplanes."
They rate the seats by desirability according to various reasonable criteria, and show the location of power points, enabling me and my fellow traveller to watch Dr Who on my laptop all the way home during our last air trip.

From an ad in the New York Daily Times, January 28, 1854:
“Caution to the Public — Beware of Humbugs and false certificates in favor of quack nostrums, and remember that HOBENSACK’S WORM SYRUP is acknowledged by all to be the most safe an effectual remedy now in use for the removal of worms; and as that is now proven without a shadow of a doubt to be the cause of all disease, no time should be lost by those suffering from weak appetite, giddiness in the head, sickness and sourness of the stomach, in making use of this great remedy…”

Golly, if that’s all it takes to end the epidemic of giddiness of the head! And it makes the second appearance of worm syrup in this publication.

This seems to have been my first posting to the old blog, on 27 August 2002: "I love the train. Especially Trains that tilt. These are similar to, but different from, the Talgo ‘pendular’ trains used on Amtrak for the Seattle-Vancouver and -Portland runs. Hereabouts the tracks suck too bad for them to go anything like 125mph, to say nothing of 140."
Despite the sucky track, the Talgo makes the Portland run in substantially less time than the alternative (3.5 vs 4.5 parsecs) and the return leg on the alternative is always late. And the Talgo has business class, which everybody at my house will be taking not too many hours from now.