Previously I had tagged this comprehensive list of Atari-compatible joysticks as the world's best website, but I think it has strong competition from this museum of radioactive quack cures. While the basic idea behind this museum - the early 20th-century health fad of adding radon gas to water - is horrifying, there's also a lot of amazing graphic design and some great stories of American entrepeneurial pluck/fraud. And the writing has a strong voice, one with a lot of sympathy for its subjects. I love this story of using a radium emanator to refill the coolant in an overheating Toyota Tercel. In a slightly different life, I can totally see myself being in that situation.
On the virtual turntable recently:
Oregon Music of Another Present Era - I think the later 80sified version of this band played on my parents' adult contemporary/lite-jazz station and I remember not being super into it, but the original early 70s version was recommended to me and it scratches some free-improv/seeker itches. Great bass playing, and pretty cheap on Disqogz. This led me to look through a seller's inventory and, along with a couple Oregon albums, I grabbed albums by Fingerprintz and Bohannon. Neither one particularly cool, but both satisfying.
Everything by Las Mosquitas. Why is it that I am seriously lukewarm on anything garagey done by dudes, but I love all-female bands like this? I guess this is an Ennio Morricone composition no less? Not ready to spend $30 plus on the reissue that came out recently, plus I can't help but have a visceral reaction to the LP cover (a very 60s-era cartoon of flies with mascara and fishnets). But it's delightful.
