A man who played a key role in the development of the Internet has died. Robert Taylor, who arguably conceived ARPANET, was 85. Taylor brought together two sets of existing work and ideas at ARPANET, a network at the US Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. The idea of a computer network joining together multiple […]
Why say a whole sentence when just a word will do? You might never have noticed that these English words contain whole phrases within them. [Arika Okrent]
From Star Wars: The Force was strong at Star Wars Celebration Orlando, April 13-16, 2017. Take a look back at the biggest and most widely-attended Celebration in history. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend Star Wars Celebration this year, but thanks to the Internet and a few friends, I was able to partially follow the event, even […]
Watch the awesomeness that is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as he chases his daughter around the house while dressed in a giant Pikachu costume. Une publication partagée par therock (@therock) le 16 Avril 2017 à 13h22 PDT
2000-year-old computers, swords that can slice through steel, death rays, and rain-makers – we may think that we’re at the peak of technological progress, but our ancestors were engineering things that we can’t even begin to understand. Alltime 10s pays homage to these amazing obsolete inventions, in the top 10 Lost Technologies. [AllTime10s]
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I have been an avid gamer since I was a kid (many, many, MANY consoles ago) and I can honestly tell you I have never seen as many great, A+ games come out in the first quarter of a year as I just saw in 2017, and that is not even counting the new Nintendo […]
Epilepsy Warning: video contains flashing colors. The youtuber thought to include this disclaimer in the description on his video, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt putting it here as well. That’s right, Kazoos. It might not be the most melodious instrument to play, but the sound it produces works surprisingly well with the Pokémon TV […]
Step into the center of 4,200 dominoes as they fall all around you! Click and drag the screen or move your device to turn the camera. [FlippyCat]
If you’re a fan of big movies, you’ve probably got a neatly-organized laundry list of films to catch this year. From Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Wonder Woman, all the big flicks you won’t want to miss are committed to your memory. But with all that focus on blockbusters, a ton of amazing picks […]