Haven’t been hit this hard, this wonderfully, by nostalgia in a long time, but at the risk of carbon-dating myself, here are scans of the 1969 series Matchbox toy car catalog (via BoingBoing and Positive Ape Index). Between my neighbors and I, we had a whopping three-fourths of these 75 beauties (which always outshined Hot Wheels in our eyes), and others that must have been added to the series in later years, including my very favorite, a rust-colored (natch) Gremlin-esque compact. (For the record, my memory says that we had Nos. 1, 3-13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23-34, 36-39, 41-48, 50-53, 56, 57, 59-61, 63, 65, 66 and 68-73.) Of the ‘69 line, the one that amuses me most now is good ol’ No. 3, the ambulance with the detachable white plastic victim and/or corpse. Oh, the dirt mounds that guy toppled off of back in the day — before we upscaled to the Build-A-Road set. Sim City, bite my segmented plastic ass.
A glorious bit of venting for anyone who’s ever had to endure someone else’s bad Web ideas: "An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today" at the blog Joe the Peacock (via Valleywag). The line that strikes frightfully close to home: "Okay, so wait - Now we’re adding YouTube onto the Digg-a-book-apedia-r site you want to miraculously create in six months?"
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