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mercredi 28 mai 2025, 16:57
Mac Schwerin reports on the use of 1993's Doom to illustrate the computing power of random gadgets with screens, from alarm clocks to pregnancy tests: 'The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere.' Doom's most entertaining developments happen in the shadow of the...
Wall Street was turned upside-down by President Donald Trump's tariffs, but now we've been through a few rounds of him posting then withdrawing threats and trying to shake down foreign governments, things are settling down. They have a nickname for him, 'Taco,' to remind...
Atheists, imagine you're going skydiving with a Christian baby. Suddenly, the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounce atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What would you do? If your response to that question was anything other than 'what...
A study found that semicolons are in steep decline; I remain loyal. Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism. Adrian Mole, the pretentious schoolboy protagonist of Sue Townsend's popular novels, says snobbishly of Barry...
Cooking with lava? Eugh. So last year. Lightning is what's in right now. Intrusive-thought-following YouTuber Max Fosh, who pioneered the bold cooking style of 'shoving a box of curry into molten lava', is back to break new ground in the culinary space again — this time by ...
It's the 'Oh' moment for nostalgic grown-ups excitedly revisiting the computers of their childhoods: how do I plug the damned thing into a modern TV? Though it's nothing an adapter box of some kind can't handle, Side Projects Lab went all the way and created a complete HDMI...
I just want to apologize in advance to any Cowboy Bebop fans. Live-action adaptations of anime have never exactly gone well, probably because translating stylized, dynamic action into 'some jackass in front of a green screen' is an exercise in misery, but Netflix's One Piece ...
mardi 27 mai 2025, 22:39
'Mickey Mouse started as a mischievous, rebellious trickster in the late 1920s,' writes Justin Papan in his newsletter, 'a subversive figure who connected with audiences struggling through the Great Depression.' As the cartoon mouse's popularity grew, Disney softened...
When I was a kid Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was constantly on Tom Hatten's Family Film Festival, and I loved seeing it. Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes are just outstanding. The tale of a well-meaning, but bumbling inventor, his kids, and a candy heiress on an adventure...
If 'Where's Waldo?' is too easy (or dull) for you, give MicroMacro: Crime City a try. In this cooperative tabletop game, players use task cards and a giant-sized, ultra-detailed, black-and-white cartoon drawing of a densely populated city to solve 16 crimes, one at a time. —...
Under the guidance of Trump henchman RFK Jr, the CDC spends time and money investigating things we already know, and moving away from protecting children. The benefits of vaccines and fluoride are understood. Cities have tried experiments where they ceased adding fluoride to ...
Fernanda Eberstadt, granddaughter of Wall Street financier Ferdinand Eberstadt, writes about working at Andy Warhol's Factory in 1977 when she was 16. From her essay in Granta, titled 'Buring Mao.' My parents – New York society people with an interest in downtown art – ...
Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre is sharing some great stuff from their archives! Check out Jim Turner as 1982 Senate Candidate Sterling Dell Zell! Sunny Side will release videos from STERLING, a 35 comedy video series, on YouTube, TikTok and INSTAGRAM, Monday through...
In 1970, coffee growers hired an ad agency to convince young British people to drink more coffee. This 17-minute, black-and-white BBC documentary starts with a slow pan across a group of pasty-faced, chain smoking executives in suits watching a commercial built around an...
Unless you need to masquerade your geography to access a restricted website, get around a government restriction, or want to run BitTorrent, there isn't much use for a third-party VPN anymore. As HTTPS has long since become the standard, third-party VPNs have lost much of...
Reading Wired's analysis of Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk's record of lies, you'd have thought the 'tell' they are exposing was 'his lips are moving,' but they found something else. Musk is a fabulous storyteller. The most remarkable story of them all is his brilliance, but in this, ...
'The human body is, roughly speaking, one percent phosphorus,' writes Jack Lohmann in Quillette. The exceedingly rare element is one of six that are absolutely essential to life. (The others are carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur, which are more plentiful than...
Where does the time go? Before we had the masterpiece of storytelling and world design that is Red Dead Redemption 2, its predecessor was also considered one of the best video games of all time — at least before its weird, half-assed port. — Read the rest The post Red...
Human vision is limited to a relatively narrow section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Night-vision goggles allow people to see infrared but are bulky and require power. According to a new study in the journal Cell, scientists have developed contact lenses that may one day ...
This video gives us the answers to a question I've been secretly wondering for years. Where did office jargon come from? Why do we use phrases like 'circle back later' or 'just looping you in'? I've always wondered if there's some secret manual that contains all the cringey...
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