Enabling nostalgia, the USB tape deck. Aside from asking why one can't just plug a DIN lead into a regular tape deck, we suspect it will be a hit, yet another way of extracting the lingering analogue bits of our lives. More on the nearly lost world of cassettes at flickr: creative cassette covers, or imitating the spidery writing of album graphics, making covers, Vive la cassette, my cassettes. While we're on the subject of musical nostalgia, re-live saturday morning frustration with these extracts from the ITV Chart Show Indie Charts from 1989-1994 on Youtube (via).

More reappearances by times long past. Now that the Bears are back, some nuclear nostalgia, courtesy of Syndprod: Duck and Cover / Virtual game is a 'disease model'. Probably way too simplistic / i like's love is Like a Motorway / a short set of images of the soon-to-reopen St Pancras Station.

Shop-A-Matic, does window shopping work on the web? Or is this simply a magazine embracing the shoplog format? / flickr's Zagato pool / DaddyTypes, dealing with fatherhood through gadget consumption / Lego space city, via No Sense of Place / the 365 Project is well worth checking out. posted by things at 10:32 / 0 comments