Much has been written about Peter Lorre’s morphine addiction, but far less is known about his cheesing habit.

(Via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger….)

“oohh – look! Donald Duck is dying!!”

Another from Vintage Ads – that place is a goldmine of goodness.

(Via Vintage Ads.)

Few people know that before he became Soviet Premier, Nikita Kruschev was the USSR’s greatest ventriloquist.

Kruschev and Yakov the drunken Trotskyite on stage in Kiev, 1934.

Environmentalist and conservation have been important to Americans for almost as long as there’s been an America. The goals are consistent, only the means have varied from decade to decade. Witness this “workfare” program proposed in 1926:

“Scientists believe that the monkey, in addition to his use by investigators in the fields of evolution and [...]

Due to a change in Philippine customs policies, the importation of books into the Philippines has come to a halt. Robin Hemley writes the long version of the story at McSweeney’s, and there’s additional coverage here. It seems a customs official asked an importer to pay duty on a shipment of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. [...]

(Via stuka’s found.)

Captured by Google Street View, found by Macworld.

In former Soviet Union, building looks at you!

More proletarian Sci-Fi buildings here. And there’s even more Russian fun to be had at English Russia.