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» Montreal Monday: Bixi love, yellow birch trees and then-and-now photos • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2009

The then-and-now site is at it again with a sampling of vintage shots of this year's MTV Video Music Awards nominees.

See Vintage Photos of This Year's MTV Video Music Awards Nominees 2011

Participate in this experiment (a very unscientific study in digital breadcrumbs, if you will) and we'll round up some of the most creative responses, then-and-now style.

From Xanga to Facebook to Tumblr: How have you grown up through social networks? Katie Rogers 2010

The then-and-now of the quest to unseat Arlen Specter is a study in political tectonics.

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 7, 2010 2010

The product is a hard-to-put-down coffee-table book, with big, striking then-and-now portraits, that pulls you deep into small-town America, with its almost excessive heartbreaks and intermittent joys.

Cover to Cover 2008

Apparently the networks think that people are going to really enjoy television shows about India (see Nevermind Nirvana and Outsourced), nostalgia for the past ten years (for example, the pilots, Generation Y and Most Likely to Succeed are all about the then-and-now stuff), and of course Middle America (Colorado is hot state to stage a television show apparently).

Annie Stamell: Pilot Season: Trying to Figure Out TV's Next Big Hit Annie Stamell 2010

Apparently the networks think that people are going to really enjoy television shows about India (see Nevermind Nirvana and Outsourced), nostalgia for the past ten years (for example, the pilots, Generation Y and Most Likely to Succeed are all about the then-and-now stuff), and of course Middle America (Colorado is hot state to stage a television show apparently).

Annie Stamell: Pilot Season: Trying to Figure Out TV's Next Big Hit 2010

Apparently the networks think that people are going to really enjoy television shows about India (see Nevermind Nirvana and Outsourced), nostalgia for the past ten years (for example, the pilots, Generation Y and Most Likely to Succeed are all about the then-and-now stuff), and of course Middle America (Colorado is hot state to stage a television show apparently).

Pilot Season: Trying to Figure Out TV's Next Big Hit 2010

The product is a hard-to-put-down coffee-table book, with big, striking then-and-now portraits, that pulls you deep into small-town America, with its almost excessive heartbreaks and intermittent joys.

Cover to Cover 2008

The other two hysterias that then-and-now comparisons have turned up for me are drunk driving and stray dog, which have their anti-hysteria heros in Joseph Gusfield and Vicki Hearne respectively.

"American taxpayers are funding a lavishly appointed hospital in which hundreds of child molesters and rapists can idle their days away." Ann Althouse 2009