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Time traveler spotted in 1940 museum photograph

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There!  Do you see him?  I know what you’re thinking, but this 1940 photograph has not been tampered with.   Those funky glasses, the graphic tee, the portable camera, and look at his hair!  All signs point to this man being a time traveler making a pit stop somewhere in 1940s America.

Thanks to a lengthy breakdown of the photo, it has been deduced that it is likely authentic.  Bummer, I know.  The outfit: Being used as we are to our contemporary fashion, we look at the man and assume he’s wearing a stamped T-shirt, something that would be indeed out of place (or time). But if you look carefully, you can see that he’s actually wearing (or could as well be wearing) a sweatshirt. And sweatshirts with bordered emblems were not uncommon in the 1940s – in fact you can find those in other photos from the same exhibit.  The glasses: …similar sunglasses used by actress Barbara Stanwyck on the movie “Double Indemnity”, made in 1944.  Or they are motorcycle goggles.  The camera: …despite some comments about the camera lens being too big for the time, too compact, it looks like a Kodak Folding Pocket model, available since the beginning of the 20th century.

The conclusion?  There’s nothing that can be seen that is actually out of place or time.  Despite all of this intriguing fact-checking, I’m still on to you, time traveler!  Share your theories in the comments below.

[Via Forgetomori; BoingBoing]

WarGames IMSAI 8080 for sale

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“Shall we play a game?”

That’s the eerie question this aged personal computer asked David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) in the classic 1983 film WarGames.  The IMSAI 8080 is the computer Broderick used to connect to the defense department’s W.O.P.R. supercomputer.  He thought he was playing a game about global thermonuclear war, but in reality he was bringing the world ever so close to nuclear devastation.  The IMSAI 8080 has been perfectly preserved since it was used as a prop in the movie.  Currently appraised at over $25,000 it is about to be sold on the market.  Whoever manages to win the Ferrari from Ferris Bueller should try to snag the IMSAI 8080 and create a next-generation KITT.  Wouldn’t that be something?  Check out a recent photograph of the device after the break.

[Via Imsai.net; Engadget]

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A still from the Fringe musical episode

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Ausiello Files’ snagged a still from the set of the April 29 Fringe musical episode.  In it, the characters will cover popular songs that will play out in a Walter Bishop hallucination.

Executive producer Jeff Pinkner: “We didn’t set out to do a musical.  We set out to do an episode that explored Walter’s state of mind — he’s dealing with some very upsetting news.  When we realized that the way Walter would deal with such news would be to try to anesthetize himself with copious amounts of marijuana, well, singing and dancing became a natural outcome.”  Agent Olivia Dunham embodies what Ausiello calls “a retro private-eye persona” and Pinkner goes on to tease: “It’ll be interesting to see how Walter really perceives her.”

Fringe airs Thursday nights at 9PM on FOX.

[Via EW-AusielloFiles]

The ‘Drawing Hands’ paradox

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Drawing Hands by Ben Gavette.  1948.  Lithograph.

I stumbled upon this image while studying the concept of autopoesis which literally means “auto (self)-creation” and revolves around the notions of structure and function.  Drawing Hands is a complex and intriguing illustration that centers itself on autopoeisis and begs the questions, which hand is the illustration and which hand is doing the illustrating?  Quite the paradox, eh?  American thinker Douglas Hofstadter called this a “strange loop” which arises when, by moving up or down through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started.  Boom.  Did I just blow your mind?

[Info. via Wiki]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988

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The next installment of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is here!  The narrative jumps abot 80 years into the future from  lasy year’s “Century: 1910” to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988.  Is that Dr. Emmet Brown front and center?  Synopsis, people:

When war-hero-turned-handyman Kesuke Miyagi is found drained of blood, it becomes clear that the occult gang known as the Lost Boys are targeting the only individuals that can stop them from complete domination of America. It’s the perfect case for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen–except that their government contact, Oscar Goldman, disbanded the team in 1979 after they defeated Mr. Han’s army of the living dead.

Now, disgraced scientist Emmet Brown has to put together a new team to combat the growing threat of the Lost Boys and their leader, a newly resurrected vampire kingpin Tony Montana: Transportation specialist Jack Burton, ex-commando B.A. Baracus, tech wizard Angus MacGyver and the mysteriously powerful femme fatale known only as “Lisa.” But will Brown be able to stop the Lost Boys before time runs out?

1988 is written by Moore, but, according to ComicsAlliance, one Rusty Shackles will  fill in for illustrator O’Neill “due to the latter’s crippling addiction to “Pokemon SoulSilver”.”

[Via ComicsAlliance]