New Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Collection

NPR is providing a stream of the whole album ahead of its release.  Got some Time Out of Mind and World Gone Wrong alternates, outtakes and live versions.

via Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music

Some Contestants Receive the Home Version

Those Were the Salad Days

Another HUGE and beautiful shot from the Shorpy blog. Detroit in green days past.

via Green Detroit: 1942 | Shorpy :: History in HD

DIY: Making Some Serious Book

Dave the Designer shows us how to make book (the reading kind).

via Book Tutorial

Skeezix Spelled Backwards is "Natures"

Two things for which the comic strip Gasoline Alley was famous were that the characters grew older in real time and the traditional autumn color walk. Here Roger Clark Art has collected a run of these walking these strips by Frank King from 1923-1950. Seeing them presented in such a way the reader gets an excellent feel for both of these simple and effective features.

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Roger Clark Art

Set a Course for Adventure

Cool retro-futurist travel posters by artist Steve Thomas. These would make cool stickers to put on your suitcase, too.

via Rocketship Tours - Baekdal.com

TV Viewing Leads to Reading

How could a kid go wrong with ABC's Funshine Saturday? Where else could you see Dr. Shrinker? Growing up with TV Guide every week, I loved finding this place showcasing the crappy ad art. When I miss the magazine art of the past, I miss seeing the the bad stuff as well. But not as much. Come on. Much of the time, these ads reflect the print equivilent of the creativity and panache that went into the shows themselves.

The Lost Art of TV Guide Advertising, Vol. 7 of 265,890