Story of a young boy who over the summer built his own arcade in his dad’s used car parts store. He diligently manned this arcade every weekend hoping and waiting for a customer. When he finally did get one, his dreams came true.
Posted by Matt Scott
Video game consoles and home computers have far exceeded the technical capabilities of anything that can be found in a classic arcade. As avid gamers who professionally work with the…
I grew up during the 1980’s and distinctly remember being horrified by a movie shown on local DC television. The film received high press coverage in the weeks before broadcast, it was in 3D and required the purchase of anaglyph red/blue glasses.
It seems like only a few years ago when Japan had the monopoly on the export of weird Asian culture. But now Korea will be a contender in that game,…
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
I got to meet Trent Reznor during the 2009 NIN|JA tour, that’s where the photo above comes from. As a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails I was flipping out after reading this…
I have the notion that should I ever have children, I will be one of the coolest (read: “geekiest”) dads ever. I will teach my children things like how wine…
