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Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990

An interesting website containing historical images of LA. Here’s how they describe themselves:

From Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled gumshoes to the decline and fall of the city’s streetcar system, the City of Angels underwent a dramatic transformation from 1920 to 1990. This remarkable digital archive offered by the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections brings together over 5700 photographs from that period. Culled from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives of 3 million photographs, this collection covers topics that include religion, popular culture, urban development, law enforcement, and the entertainment industry. Visitors can browse through a list of subjects or search for specific items of interest by keyword. To get started, visitors may wish to search for “Bud Abbott”, “Oil Wells”, and “Urban renewal”.

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Jamaican Dog Sled Team

It appears that the Jamaicans, with the help of Jimmy Buffett, have start a dog sled team. Following in the footsteps of the bobsled team, the dogsled team has a site and a movie. No snow, no problem mon.

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Historical Stock Numbers

I found this site that has historical stock numbers by year for all the stocks in a certain market. This is useful to find betas and other numbers from yesteryear.

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Free Business Articles

I just signed up Wharton knowledge website and must say I am impressed. HBR level articles for free. I used them for research for a job interview I have tomorrow.

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RFK Funeral Train

There is a good article in the NY Times on the RFK funeral train. In addition, take a look at the photographs in the slideshow that accompanies the article. Very interesting pictures from a very interesting time.

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You've Been Left Behind

For smary Christians who want to flaunt there rightness during the rapture, there is a site called http://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com/ that allows Christians to send e-mail to their non-believer friends during the rapture.

Here’s bit of advertising from their website:

You’ve Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends For Christ. Imagine being in the presence of the Lord and hearing all of heaven rejoice over the salvation of your loved ones. It is our prayer that this site makes it happen.

Nothing like getting $40/year from customers who can’t verify that you did your job.