A 1990 episode of Nova about the rise and fall of airships. The second half of the episode is about a potential uses for blimps in modern day.

A commercial for Weekly World News, a popular US tabloid of the 80s and 90s. No checkout counter would be complete without WWN.

For the Japanese release of the Kiss Me CD single, the band rerecorded their song with Japanese lyrics.

thebroken is the legendary underground technology show with a hacker mentality that caters to the elite (or wannabe 1337) computer user using a mixture of seriousness and irreverent comedy. thebroken debuted as an independent online show more than a year ago and has been successfully downloaded over 3-million times. Each episode focuses on several subjects and is between 20-30 minutes in length. If it's shady or underground, it's thebroken.

"On his 20th birthday, Ed Bellamy discovers that he was an unknowing subject of a childhood medical experiment. Microchips implanted in his brain make him a genius, but will also kill him by his 21st birthday."

This is a text of one of 3 recordings done in 1955 of a native Gullah speaker telling old animal tales from the Gullah-Geechee culture. It's a beautiful language that too few people know about. The Library of Congress has the original recordings, but I can't find any free access to them, which is a shame. In the '90s I bought the recordings on cassette tape from the LOC. I still have them, but don't know how I can digitize them. But I'll keep trying. The texts at least give a sense of the beauty of the language.

Vintage social panic/educational film.