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Change Log
Recent wrong trivia answers displayed
Mon 18 January 2010 11:53:00 -0800
I've been monitoring the wrong answers to the trivia questions, and find
this so entertaining
that I've decided to provide that information to everyone. After submitting your answer,
you now get to see the recent wrong-answer statistics.
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Many new Trivia Quiz items added
Mon 11 January 2010 16:55:00 -0800
Expansion of the Trivia Quiz continues. In order to encourage users
who've tried it to come back for more, a new option has been added: you can
now choose to answer only the questions that have been added in the last 30
days.
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Cross-reference links added
Mon 23 November 2009 17:30:00 -0800
Cross-reference links have been added between items in the Actors and
Entertainers, Humor, Movies, Theater, and TV galleries. Code was also
installed to automatically generate such links as new items are added to
those galleries and when existing items are edited.
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Galleries renamed and re-purposed
Wed 18 November 2009 00:10:00 -0800
The Musical Instruments gallery was relatively empty, whereas the Performing Artists gallery was
beginning to feel the strain of hundreds of actors, musicians, and other entertainers. So the musicians have
now joined their instruments in the newly renamed Music gallery, and the
Performing Artists gallery was renamed Actors and Entertainers.
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Movies of the Fifties and Sixties now listed individually
Mon 16 November 2009 20:05:00 -0800
The Movies of the Fifties and Sixties had been grouped under the year each was released. This was deemed
unsatisfactory, since members weren't able to leave comments for an individual movie. The year-by-year
listings have been replaced by individual items as in the other galleries.
Work is also underway to flesh out the Art and Literature and
Performing Artists galleries.
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New 'Issues & Events' gallery
Wed 11 November 2009 12:35:00 -0800
Several items have been moved from the
Life and Nations & Conflicts
galleries into a new Issues & Events
gallery, and 'Nations & Conflicts' is now simply 'Nations'.
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New score graph for trivia quiz
Thu 05 November 2009 14:42:00 -0800
Upon completion of the Trivia Quiz, a graph is now displayed showing
how the user's score compares with those of other users who chose the
same type of quiz (hard/easy/random) and answered a similar number of questions.
In addition, a new Regional TV/Radio
gallery was created, as was a page listing all the
BBeM's items in alphabetical order. The
Links page was updated, removing broken links and adding a few new
Boomer-related sites.
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Added comment feature to trivia quiz
Tue 02 September 2009 23:55:00 -0800
Registered users may now post comments for individual
Trivia Quiz questions as well as for the quiz
as a whole.
Added email notification feature
Mon 10 August 2009 04:00:00 -0800
When registering, and when editing your profile, you may now set
checkboxes to enable notifications by email when
- a comment (reply)
is added to an item for which you have previously posted a comment,
- any new comment is posted, or
- a new item is added to a gallery.
Of course, these options only work if your profile includes a valid
email address. The initial setting for the "notify me when my
comments are replied to" checkbox is "on".
Added statistics to Trivia Quiz
Sun 09 August 2009 02:30:00 -0800
As each trivia question is displayed, the percentage of users who
have gotten the correct answer is now displayed.
Also, logging in now returns you to the page you were on rather than
always sending you to the Home page.
Mon 01 June 2009 18:05:00 -0800
A "New Items" entry has been added to the sidebar Gallery Menu (in
the "Other" section). This provides a handy way for returning
visitors to scan all the recently-added items.
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Sun, 17 May 2009 12:32:00 -0800
The BBeM has undergone a major rewrite, making it database-driven
(with a long-sought search capability) and
adding the ability for visitors to (optionally) register, log in, and
post their personal
memories of the items on display in the various galleries. Member
comments may also be flagged as being suggestions or complaints.
The galleries now display one-line titles and thumbnail images for each
item, so they can load faster. You can click on any item to go to
its details page. Some items are now "featured" due to their perceived importance or
oddity, and newly-added items have a visual icon denoting that fact.
Even the Trivia Quiz has gone
interactive! In addition, the quirky cascading menus have been replaced with a
sidebar menu that seems to work better. If you encounter difficulty
with the new site, please use the "Contact Us"
link at the top-right of any page to send us a note.
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Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:00:00 -0800
The BBeM home page now displays 5 random events (from a database of
over 40,000 events) that occurred on today's date during the Boomer
Years.
Technology: Reddy Kilowatt promoted the use of electric power.
Transportation: Before ARCO, there were Atlantic and Richrield
stations.
Trivia Quiz: new questions added.
Workplace and School: disciplinary paddles ("Board of Ed").
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Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:40:00 -0800
The Baby Boome eMuseum has moved to its new official domain,
bbemuseum.com. References to the old mikanet.com/public/museum
area will be redirected to the new site.
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:35:00 -0800
At the Movies: Thanksgiving-time
showings of The Wizard of Oz on network TV
Baseball: No Designated Hitter
Companies and Agencies: Brooklyn Navy
Yard, Junior Sales Club of America, National Biscuit Company
Fashion: Yellow rubber raincoats
Food, Candy, Drinks: Bagels & lox were
ethnic food
Life before...: Lime-yellow fire
trucks
Sports: The American Football League
Transportation: VW Beetle and Microbus
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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:20:00 -0800
Food, Candy, Drinks: Pre-nitrogen-stuffed
snack packaging
Humor: Stan Freberg
Life: Campaign buttons & slogans --
Kennedy/Johnson, LBJ, Nixon
Toys & Games: Cowboys and Indians
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Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:58:00 -0800
Work has begun on a new Baseball gallery
for the museum, focusing on the year 1957 (the last year the Dodgers and
Giants made New York their home).
Life before...: Zipper-sealable
plastic bags
Household items: Fuzzy toilet seat &
tank covers
Musical Instruments: Electric bass
Sports and Recreation: Manual bowling
scores
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Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:32:00 -0800
Somehow, the Cartoons,
Humor, Musical
Instruments, Transportation, and
Sports & Recreation items got omitted
from the navigation menu during the recent overhaul. That's been fixed. Other
assorted additions:
Art & Literature: Works by Pablo
Picasso, Salvador Dali, Peter Max, and R. Crumb
Transportation: Studded snow tires
Fashion & Fads: Tonsillectomies.
Life: Horn & Hardart Automats
Life before...: Jet lag
Sports and Recreation: Football helmets
without face masks
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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:05:00 -0800
A slideshow has been added to the home page, featuring selected items
from the galleries. And the table of site links has been replaced
by a cascading-menu navigation bar, along with a
site map page for those users whose
browsers don't support the necessary JavaScript. As usual, a few
new items have been added to the galleries...
Life before...: MPAA film ratings
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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:39:00 -0800
Cartoons: QuickTime "play" buttons have been
added so you can hear audio clips for several cartoons. Plus...
Transportation: Steam locomotives and the Presidential railcar
(US Car #1 - Ferdinand Magellan)
Life before...: the birth-control pill
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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:00:00 -0800
There are some items that, well, just fit neatly into any other gallery.
Perhaps they're not, strictly speaking, from the Fifties and Sixties.
Or maybe they're still around and are only now beginning to fade into
obscurity. And some are still going strong, but bring back memories of
our childhood. In any case, they seem to deserve Honorable Mention, so
this gallery has been created for them.
In addition to moving some items into the new "No Cigar" gallery,
several others have migrated to more hospitable climes. And, as
usual, a few items have been added to...
At the Movies: Uniformed ushers
TV/Radio: The Prisoner
Companies: Doggie Diners (San Francisco),
Sav-on Drugs
Technology/Communications: QuickTime "play" buttons
to hear pre-TouchTone dial tone and a real telephone ringer.
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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:03:32 -0800
The BBeM home page now displays the "New at the Baby Boomer eMuseum" RSS
feed in a scrolling text area, with brief descriptions of significant changes. For further
details, you can click on the "New at..." title to go to this new Change Log
page, or you can click on an individual change-item title to go directly to
its associated Change Log entry.
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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 - 16:37:32 -0800
The new BBeM exhibit "The Arts" replaces the
overcrowded "Music and Movies" area, with new
sub-pages; "Art and Literature," "At the Movies," "An Evening at the Theater," "Performing Artists," and
"Musical Instruments." "TV/Radio" remains a separate area, but can also be accessed via "The Arts." I suppose
that the "Humor" area could be included here as well, but I haven't taken that step.
At the Movies: I've created separate
movies-of-the-decade pages for selected films of the '50s and '60s, with poster images and
links to their entries at the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com).
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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:52:08 -0800
TV/Radio: There's a new "Commercials" page, with links to
YouTube
videos for some classic TV commercials. So far, these include ads for Ipana
toothpaste, Good and Plenty candy, Comet cleanser, Palmolive dish liquid,
Sun-Kist tuna, Alka-Seltzer, Oscar Mayer wieners, Maypo breakfast cereal, Green
Giant vegetables, and Hawaiian Punch. Also added Bozo the Clown and the Jackie
Gleason Show.
At the Movies: Disney animated features, and movie + popcorn + soda for under $1.00.
Art and Literature: New area; needs a good deal of work
Fashion/Fads: Flip and bouffant hairdos, Nehru jackets
Home Entertainment: 8-track tape cartridges, 78 rpm records
Life: Kinsey reports, Masters and Johnson research, Sen. Joseph McCarty, the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Life Before...: Audio tape cassette, blue M+Ms,
opening of Disneyland
Performing Artists: Eartha Kitt, Roy Orbison, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins,
John Wayne
Sports/Recreation: Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston
Technology/Communications: Princess phone
Toys: Mr. Potato Head
Transportation: "Woody" station wagons, hitchhikers, the $3,000 family car
Trivia Quiz: Several new questions added
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Sat, 3 Jan 2009 09:09:59 -0800
This entry inaugurates the BBeM RSS feed. Also, a good deal of effort has gone into recoding the entire
BBeM site in almost-strict XHTML, so the look-and-feel will be more consistent and more readily updated.
Fashion and Fads: Shocking! Shoe-fitting
fluoroscopes (shoe store foot x-rays)
Other updates this week:
Companies and Agencies: European Common Market
Life Before...: the Helvetica typeface, bottled-water craze, graffiti
Links: The Land That Made Me, Me (poem)
Nations and Conflicts (renamed; had been
"Countries"): Cold War, Cuban missle crisis, Suez crisis, Korean war, Cuban revolution
Print Media: Playboy magazine
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