Here’s an interesting tidbit from The Wall Street Journal:
ICQ was a pioneering, mid-1990s internet messaging service then used on bulky PCs on dial-up. It was a precursor to AOL Instant Messenger, and was last in vogue when the TV show “Friends” was in its prime and PalmPilots were cutting edge. It’s been modernized over the years, and now is an app…
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Apple Plans First iMac Desktop Redesign In Nearly a Decade
In addition to upgraded MacBook Pros, Bloomberg reports that Apple is also “planning the first redesign of its iMac all-in-one desktop computer since 2012,” as it shifts away from Intel to its own silicon. From the report: The new models will slim down the thick black borders around the screen and do away with the sizable metal chin area in favor…
Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It’s White Noise
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an average year, Spotify Wrapped is a sharing-optimized novelty hinging on nostalgia for a time that’s barely passed. But in 2020, this data mirror instead presented many users with unexpected empirical evidence of their pandemic coping mechanisms: a strange hit parade of ambient music, background noise and calming sound effects that soothed them through…
Are the Best Star Wars Stories Now in Games Like ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’?
A game critic for the Los Angeles Times remembers his reaction to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. “What a disappointment — if only it had been built for video game consoles.” This leads to this epiphany:
For all the deserved attention “The Mandalorian” series on Disney+ has received, the just-released game “Star Wars: Squadrons” reminds us that some of the best…
Get ready for the ’20s!
“Anybody besides me notice that the past two decades have been nameless?” Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/get-ready-for-the-2020s-decade…
Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can’t Keep Going Like This Forever.
An anonymous reader shares a column: Derek Thompson, writing in the Atlantic last month, highlighted the ways in which contemporary millennial lifestyles are in many ways subsidized by venture capital. Unprofitable businesses are currently offering up great deals to urbanites who otherwise would be unable to afford their fancy city-living in large part because of losses incurred as the cost of…
Was ‘The Matrix’ Part of Cinema’s Last Great Year?
In 2014 Esquire argued that great movies like The Matrix “predicted a revolution in film that never happened,” adding “We are in many ways worse off now than we were 15 years ago as a culture. We seem to have run out of original ideas.” This week two film critics debated whether 1999 was in fact cinema’s last great year. Slashdot…
High School Production of ‘Alien’ Suprised By Visit From Sigourney Weaver
An anonymous reader quotes ABC News: ‘Alien: The Play’ returned to the stage at North Bergen High School one month after it took the internet by storm — thanks to its elaborate costumes, stage design and nostalgia for the original film, released in 1979. The drama club only had enough money to put the production on for two nights in March,…
It’s Scary Just How Bad Fred Savage and Howie Mandel’s Little Monsters Is
At a certain point in life, you realize the movies you loved as a child don’t look the same through mature eyes. People who didn’t see those childhood favorites until later often think they’re terrible. The Goonies is a good example of a film that most people enjoy if they saw it when it came out, but people who saw…Read more…Source:…
Doctor Who’s Newest Animated Adventure Is a Truly Brilliant Rejuvenation
The fact that so much of Doctor Who’s early history is lost to time—97 episodes seemingly gone forever, thanks to the BBC’s program of archive junking throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s—has made every chance to see it recovered a monumental event. But it also gives us some blinders when it comes to how we remember… Continue reading Doctor Who’s Newest Animated Adventure Is a Truly Brilliant Rejuvenation