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Let’s Make This Day Go To ELEVEN.

November 11, 2011 by John Suder

Today is November 11, 2011. That means it’s 11.11.11. This only happens every seventy thousand years once a century, so we thought we’d share our favorite ‘Elevens’ with you on this special day.

These All Go Up To Eleven

From the movie Spinal Tap, which made the number eleven just one more better than the number ten.

Ocean’s 11

The classic Vegas casino caper film. We still prefer the all-star Rat Pack classic with ‘The Chairman’ as Danny Ocean over the regurgitated Clooney version.

Schoolhouse Rock: The Good Eleven

Most of you are too young to remember Schoolhouse Rock, but it was a vital part of our Saturday mornings growing up. The animation and songs are timeless and made book learnin’ fun.

Doctor Who: The Eleven Doctors (1963-2010)

Here’s the eleven incarnations of The Doctor.

The Simpsons: The Crepes of Wrath (The 11th Episode)

Vintage Simpsons. Bart is sent to France as a foreign exchange student and is forced to live with two slave-driving French winemakers. In his place, the Simpson family takes in Adil, a student from Albania, who’s actually a spy stealing the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s secrets.

The World of eCommerce, Circa 1969

August 30, 2010 by John Suder

In this forward-looking concept video from 1969, we see how the world of eCommerce might look through the not-quite-yet-invented Internet.
You’ll notice how they show the women doing all the shopping and the men paying for it – how quaint! If only the creators knew what the internet would truly become (a world of pokes, piano-playing cats and male enhancement ads.)