Matt Novak's discussions

Here’s one from Getty from the floor. Looks like plenty of standing room last night.

I’m 32! Did you have milkmen? Read more

The FUTURE!

Where do you live with a street wandering, bell-ringing knife sharpener? Read more

Gernsback also proposed a monument to Alexander Graham Bell.

Here’s a short Popular Science film with the car from 1948.

Capitalizing on his literal corpse seems less likely than becoming part of his estate to profit from his likeness. As weird as it may seem, companies still need to get permission to use Manson's likeness for use in advertising and products. He gets letters in prison all the time from people wanting to use his name and… Read more

Have you tried these?

The post for number 9 had a correction at the top but even more at the bottom: Read more

One thing I don't quite understand: If Sputnik is new, why does it have 61,000 tweets? Was that account called something else previously? Read more

Yeah, I ran Paleofuture independently from 2007-2011 and then went to Smithsonian 2011-2013. When I was hired at Gizmodo, part of the deal was that I'd bring my entire archive of posts with me from both, since I retained copyright on everything I wrote under the Paleofuture name. So, you'll see some old posts shared… Read more

never heard of it Read more

Yes, the Australian real estate market looks absolutely nuts right now. It would seem everybody's afraid that it's a bubble about to burst, but few people want to call it that. Read more

Not that I'm aware of. I've been collecting them for a while now, so I have a decent number of them, but I don't believe anyone has done a book or a website devoted to them. Read more

Brits and Australians still love this stuff, even though it has a different name now: Heinz Salad Cream

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Looking at the original Smithsonian post just now, it looks like their latest redesign wiped the old comments. How weird. Read more

Well, this post originally appeared at Smithsonian. When I came to Gizmodo I brought my entire archive with me, but it didn't bring over the comments. Read more

I have about 2/3 of them in my deadtree archive. I approached the Chicago Tribune and they said they don't own the rights. And Radebaugh doesn't have any close relatives I could track down. I think they're more or less orphaned works copyright-wise. I'd love to do a book, but haven't found the time or financial… Read more

Interesting! How old were you in the mid-80s? Read more