Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012

Why do movies use 555 numbers?



The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962), with 555-2106.
In older television shows from the 1950s or 1960s, "Klondike 5" or "Klamath 5" was used, as at the time the telephone exchanges used letters and numbers in phone numbers. More recent works set in this period typically use this convention as well. For example, in Back to the Future Dr. Emmett Brown's 1955 phone number is "Klondike 5-4385" while the 1985 Jennifer Parker character writes the number 555-4823 on the clock tower flier telling Marty to call her at her grandmother's.
In 2011, the fictional Netflix Relief Fund satirized the company's price increase of that year and used the fictional number 1-555-368-7147...
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555 Wikipedia
TV Tropes FiveFiveFive
A compilation of 555 numbers

Childhood memories with Sunkist



I was very surprised, Sunkist (sun-kissed) is a real american product and I found it last year at "Lidl". But unfortunately not in the famous sunkist tetrahedron package.

Sunkist is a brand of primarily orange flavored soft drinks launched in 1979.
Sunkist was first licensed by Sunkist Growers to the General Cinema Corporation, the leading independent bottler of Pepsi-Cola products at the time...

Sunkist Growers, Incorporated is a citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of 6,000 members from California and Arizona. It is headquartered in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles.Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totalled $956 million. It is the largest fresh produce shipper in the United States, the most diversified citrus processing and marketing operation in the world, and one of California's largest land-owners..
(text source Wikipedia)

www.sunkist.com
Tetra Pak
Sunkist Wikipedia

Montag, 30. Januar 2012

SnapIt a "needfull thing" from Digeus, Inc. Albany, New York



Screen Capture Software

Capture anything you see on your PC screen with SnapIt. It is convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click.

* Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard
* Automatically copies screenshots to the clipboard
* Tracks capture history, auto-saves captured images
* Saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats
* Auto-names captured images

Digeus Inc., founded in 2008, is a young and fast growing world’s provider of software for individual and professional use.

Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011

100 Years of Mary Blair


The Google doodle honouring Walt Disney artist Mary Blair. Photograph: Google

Mary Blair (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella. Blair also created character designs for enduring attractions such as Disneyland's It's a Small World, the fiesta scene in El Rio del Tiempo in the Mexico pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase, and an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. Several of her illustrated children's books from the 1950s remain in print, such as I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss. Blair was honored as a Disney Legend in 1991.
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Disney Insider
magicofmaryblair.com
www.oscars.org
Mary Blair on Wikipedia
Mary Blair Meadow Gold commercial



Donnerstag, 25. August 2011

Earl of Sandwich - The world´s greatest hot sandwich



One of best Sandwiches you can get, new at "Disney Village" in front of Disneyland Paris. I tried the "Full Montagu", it was delicious.
The restaurant, the chain’s first in mainland Europe(unfortunately not in Austria), was officially inaugurated back on Wednesday, 15th June with the 11th Earl of Sandwich himself, John Montagu.

Earl of Sandwich menu
Earl of Sandwich London
Earl of Sandwich USA
Earl of Sandwich (restaurant)Wikipedia

Freitag, 15. Juli 2011

What is an Italian Beef Sandwich?



An Italian beef is a sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef, dripping with meat juices, on a dense, long Italian-style roll, believed to have originated in Chicago, where its history dates back at least to the 1930s.[1] The bread itself is often dipped (or double-dipped) into the juices the meat is cooked in, and the sandwich is typically topped off with Chicago-style giardiniera (called "hot") or sauteed, green Italian sweet peppers (called "sweet").

Italian beef sandwiches can be found at most hot dog stands and small Italian-American restaurants throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. They are difficult to find outside the Chicago metropolitan area. However, Chicago expatriates have opened restaurants across the country serving Italian beef,
Chicago-style hot dogs, and other foods original to the Chicago area.
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Al´s Beef Chicagos #1 Italian Beef since 1938
Unfortunately not in Austria.

www.great-chicago-italian-recipes.com
www.seriouseats.com

Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011

Hillerich & Bradsby


Hillerich & Bradsby Company is a company located in Louisville, Kentucky that produces the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in downtown Louisville features a retrospective of the product and its use throughout baseball history. H&B also makes baseball gloves, golf clubs, golf gloves and other equipment (under the PowerBilt brand). (Textsource wikipedia)

www.slugger.com
www.sluggermuseum.org
The City of Louisville, Kentucky