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it's cool when you see an article saying "Western Digital releases new 18TB & 20TB EAMR drives!" and yet everywhere you can go to buy such things only has the

So a neat visual glitch in the 1985 arcade game City Connection has to do with your oil cans and turning around:They slow down or even go backwards when you

So want to see something that's really neat and also completely infuriating?CHECK OUT THESE ALPHABET BLOCKS FOR THE TINY BABIES! So, they're double-sided. Here's the other side.Anyone spot what's happening

I like how Gunbuster has a Mac in the classroom segment in episode 2. as always, Gainax loves their mechanical stuff. I was surprised to see that this was on

sometimes the only thing I have that is holding me back from a stupid idea is that fact that I have two competing stupid ideas so I have an IBM

oh my god, I'm taking an OpenSesame course and I think it's specifically designed to hate my brain.It defaults to voice-over, which apparently just READS OFF THE TEXT ON SCREEN,

I'm always interested in the intersection of technology and religion, and an aspect I hadn't looked into too much before is the Qibla (which means "Direction")It's the direction of the

sometimes I think it'd be amusing to make an aesthetic tumblr or twitter bot that's just sequels-to-nostalgic things, with the goal of provoking a negative response.You know, like that classic

I think the "Duck and Cover" advice given to schoolchildren in the 1950s is often wrongly mocked because of a misunderstanding about who exactly it was aimed at. And I

no, spellchecker, please don't auto-correct "ebcdic" to "bodice" WHAT EVEN IS THE DIFFERENCE? EBCDIC was devised by IBM in the early 60s, it's a family of character encodings used on

STUPID IDEA OF THE DAY:So the first consumer CD player was released in 1982, right? And the IBM PC came out in (late) 1982... and while nearly everyone used it

Sim Copter 1 reporting heavy traffic. You know you can shoot down the copter, right? Just use the centering tool on it, and it'll go "I'm hit" and spiral in?