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mercredi 28 mai 2025, 13:04
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...
This video explains how 19th century French physicist Jules Antoine Lissajous used tuning forks to map out two-dimensional shapes, called Lissajous curves, that uniquely correspond to every musical interval, the difference in pitch between two notes. Musician Reuben Levine...
When most people are too late to hop aboard their means of transportation, they typically have to accept the fact that their plane, train, or in this case, a cruise ship, is going to leave without them. The gentleman in this video wasn't going to give up without a fight,...
If you feel like your devices are constantly watching you, you're not alone. This video from Wired shows how our smart devices spy on our lives. It also tells us what we can do to minimize and control the information that is collected by our smart devices. — Read the rest T...
Kyle Barr reports that the $300 Feno smart toothbrush is 'the worst thing I've ever shoved in my mouth.' The gob-filling mouthpiece cleans every one of your chompers simultaneously. He says it works, but he didn't like the experience one bit: it 'made my entire head shake...
Behold Nick Gillard's pico-mac-nano, a tiny and functional replica of the original Apple Macintosh. Only 62mm tall, it's created with a Raspberry Pi Pico and a a 2-inch LCD panel. The final size was always going to be determined by the LCD panel which needed to be able to...
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