Death of the Newspaper or Death by Newspaper

A clip from the great 1952 noir film: Deadline USA which includes great shots of a newspaper press and an unfortunate chap taking too close a look at the press.

Futureworld Goss newspaper press

The opening scene of Futureworld 1976 - the sequel to Westworld - has a wonderful walk by of a Goss (Metroliner?) newspaper press.



More printing in the movies can be seen HERE

Instructions for making your own pressman's hat can be found HERE

Dead at 141 years of age

After a valiant battle with Internet News the Nanaimo Daily News, a resident of this city for 141 years, has, as some feared it would, sadly passed away. The Nanaimo Daily News was pre-deseased by its younger brother - The Oceanside Star, resident of Parksville, B.C., and sister - The Courier-Islander, resident of Campbell River, B.C.

The Nanaimo Daily News was a well respected and active member of this Island community of nearly 150,000. It will be especially missed by its advertisers, existing and recent subscribers, and by those few who picked up their copy at newspaper stands.

There will be no funeral service and so, in lieu of flowers, please visit the Nanaimo Daily News memorial page by clicking HERE or make a donation to your local community newspaper by purchasing a copy (while you still can).

"No news is sad news"

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Marketing 101

Everyone in town knows where the church is - but every Sunday the church still rings its bell.

Revolutionary 3D Printing inspired by the movie Terminator 2

A TED Talk by Joseph DeSimone March 2015 - amazing.

You know that film is dead...

... when you have to say that what was being put into a camera is a roll of film as this clip from the recent "Sin City - A Dame to Die For" did because otherwise the modern audience wouldn't know what it was.

Weights and Measures Craziness

I was comparing the nutrition information of two bags of cheese at the grocer's today.
And noted that the information was based on the amount of cheese by cup and gram.
Somehow, although they are both using 30 grams as the measure - one has 30 grams being 1/3 of a cup but with the other the same 30 grams is 1/4 of a cup.
Hmmmmm. So what does a web-based converter say?
Apparently 1/4 of a cup isn't 30 grams - it's 59!
I give up.