January 2019 - Page 6 of 6

Creating the Worst Video Game of All Time

(via Great Big Story) The video game ‘E.T, The Extraterrestrial’ for Atari 2600 is considered one of the biggest flops

(via mental_floss) The concrete jungle may be sprinkled with man-made parks and tree-lined streets, but the great outdoors? Not so

(via mental_floss) When King started Carrie, he typed three single-spaced pages, crumpled them up in anger, and dumped them in

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(via Atlas Obscura) Nearly a century after talkies stole the show, composers, musicians, and audiences are still playing along.

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(via Mental Floss) You’ve heard of “con men”—short for confidence men—but what about the con women of the world? Some

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(via Atlas Obscura) Adding sound flourishes to films in post-production remains low-tech.

(via Mental Floss) With its seemingly endless army of aliens slowly marching down the screen, the thump-thump-thump of its sound

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(via Great Big Story) Talk about choice real estate—the Eltz Castle in Wierschem, Germany, is a spectacular medieval structure that

(via Mental Floss) Just handling day-to-day tasks can be a monster achievement , but sometimes it can be even harder

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(via Popular Mechanics) Blood donation remains one of the easiest ways a person can save another’s life. The Red Cross

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(via Listverse) With the holidays wrapping up here in the Western world, many of us still have our Christmas lights

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(via Smithsonian) Public Domain Day, January 1, 2019. At the stroke of midnight, beloved classics like Robert Frost’s “Stopping by