The video game ‘E.T, The Extraterrestrial’ for Atari 2600 is considered one of the biggest flops in gaming history. Yet the game’s designer, Howard Scott Warshaw, says he couldn’t be prouder of that honor. This is the story of an awesomely bad video game. [Great Big Story]
From Neil Gaiman: The Worldbuilders charity passed its stretch goal of a million dollars, so I lit a whole bunch of candles, put on a coat once worn by a dead brother in the Stardust movie, and I read Edgar Allan Poe’s poem THE RAVEN by candlelight. [Neil Gaiman | Via Io9]
A translation company is advertising for an emoji translator. The ad, which gives the impression of being legitimate, is seeking somebody to provide “the human touch where translation software is inadequate.” Today Translations says it has a network of 3,000 linguists covering more than 200 languages, but doesn’t yet have a dedicated expert for what […]
How far away can you possibly get from every other human on the planet? The answer is actually quite far, there are a lot of extremely remote places left in the world and some of them have actually yet to be reached by anybody in all of history. [RealLifeLore]
The opening titles were never meant to be just boring text! They can have a life of their own! What are your favorite opening title sequences? Let us know in the comments below! [CineFix]
Amazon has ranked “Star Nomad: Fallen Empire” by author Lindsay Buroker as one of the top 20 sci-fi/fantasy books of 2016, and at just $0.99 for the Kindle edition (90% off,) I figured quite a few of you might be interested in checking it out! The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be […]
We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why? It is time to reframe how we think about our past. [Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell]
Note: This is safe for work, the video talk about a true to history version of the Oregon Trail game. We all loved The Oregon Trail as kids — and the gameplay was pretty accurate. But there were a few things about pioneer life that weren’t fit for that precious hour in the computer room. […]
Since I was a comic collecting kid, there were always two schools of comic fandom. DC or Marvel (with the wisest and geekiest of us collecting both, and IMAGE, and more) but there was a clear line drawn in the sand between those two major companies, with Marvel coming out ahead sometimes (X-Men) and DC […]
The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. [Veritasium]