The Seattle Municipal Archives online stuff is fascinating. There's some movies from the 50's that the city commissioned (and of course had SCL pay for) that touted the livability and business climate of Seattle and they have some great shots of downtown and some of the neighborhoods. There's also at least one that highlights the Skagit Hydro project and another one that is a walk through of the old Frederick & Nelson (that one was paid for by the store, of course. They had deep pockets because they were owned by Marshall Fields.

The Hump people should do a save the sex tapes campaign.

Also: is a sex tape still a sex tape if it's not actually on tape? I've wondered this for some time.

I'm too busy trying to save the malls to add tapes to that (you can only save one 80s thing at a time) but this is a really interesting and important article.

I hope they have a plan beyond copying the recovered videos to DVDs and just filing them away. CDs/DVDs/BluRays suffer from disc rot. Where heat and moisture get to the aluminum recording layer encapsulated in polycarbonate and attack it.

The only viable long term solution is to pull everything out of the files and re-record it to the 'current technology'. perhaps once every decade. Once digitized with a decent error correcting code, there's at least some hope of making error free copies in the future.