NES-style box art for Dead Space and Gears of War

There's a large gallery of modern video games with classic NES-style cover art here.

Fake names that made it on TV

A roundup of fake names that made it on TV.

Sewing Tattoo Group at Flickr

There's a sewing-themed tattoo Flickr group. Sew or Die belongs to Katy.

Dharma Initiative advertising

An entire gallery of vintage Dharma Initiative advertising.

Solid Snake toy by Mchael Lau now on sale

You can now buy the Michael Lau Solid Snake with Crocodile Cap toy ("Gardener Square Snake").

I Love It When You Talk Retro

I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech by Ralph Keyes. You can read an interview with Keyes here.

From the interview:

I was surprised to find out that there were no "secret decoder rings." There were secret decoder pins, but no rings.

The Tin Noses Shop

Sir Harold Gillies, sculptor Kathleen Scott, artist Francis Derwent Wood and others worked together during World War to create masks for British troops disfigured during World War I. The official name for the facility was "Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department." But the troops called it "The Tin Noses Shop."