Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake
If you never got your hands on Nintendo's NES Classic Edition, you may want to redouble your efforts: Nintendo announced today that it would be discontinuing production of the retro-styled console. Per a statement to IGN, the last shipments of the product will go out this April. "NES Classic Edition wasn't intended to be an…
Satisfy Your Inner Child and Adult With Gorgeous Disney Posters for Grown-Ups
Click:polymer insulator From kids sleuthing around pretending to be the Great Mouse Detective to Elsa wannabes singing "Let It Go" until their parents inadvertently memorize the lyrics, every generation has its Disney fans. But as they get older, it becomes harder for adult die-hards to find a poster for their favorite Mouse House flick that…
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense Is Still the Concert Film All Others Try to Be
Few films start so inauspiciously as Stop Making Sense. Talking Heads frontman David Byrne walks onto a bare stage at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles wearing a grey suit and white sneakers and carrying a boombox. "Hi," he tells the crowd. "I got a tape I want to play." He puts down the stereo,…
Take a Trip Inside Coachella's Psychedelic 120-Foot VR Dome
This year at Coachella the biggest spectacle wasn't Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar, or even Lady Gaga. It wasn't Selena Gomez and the Weeknd's PDA, either. Instead, it was a massive dome where attendees could see giant neon caterpillars, alien landings, and geometric shapes pulsing through the cosmos—no hallucinogens required. Chrysalis, as the show in the dome…
The Emoji Movie Misses the Point of Emoji
If you’ve ever sent ?? or ??? to a crush, you know emoji often carry far more than their intended meanings. A ☺️ is still a ☺️, but a ?? An ?? They contain multitudes of meaning. The beauty—and potential peril—of emoji lies in the fact they are so wildly open to interpretation. This idea…
Rebuilding—and Recording With—the 1920s Technology That Changed American Music Forever
Without the recording lathe, Willie Nelson would have never heard the Carter Family sing. Neither would Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash. These portable machines toured the country in the 1920s, visiting rural communities like Poor Valley, West Virginia, and introducing musicians like the Carter Family to new audiences. This remarkable technology forever changed how people…
Aw Yiss: You Can Now Play Old-School Mac Games in Your Browser
Want to leave the internet behind for a simpler time, one where computer frogs crossed rivers instead of spewing hate speech? The Macintosh Software Library from the Internet Archive lets you run old-school Macintosh games and applications in your browser, so stop hurling insults on Twitter and start throwing rocks in Dark Castle. Related Stories…
Bill Nye Says Climate Change Deniers Have a Bad Case of Cognitive Dissonance
Climate change. For some reason, certain people just don’t believe it’s real. Even Scott Pruitt, the man President Trump named to head the Environmental Protection Agency, isn’t steadfast about global warming and what causes it. But years of scientific study have shown the planet is getting warmer. What gives? According to Bill Nye, the answer…
The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Better—and More Important—Than You Know
When David Lynch's neo-noir movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me premiered 25 years ago at Cannes, the audience, famously, booed. That's not unheard of, but the reaction probably had less to do with the film than its television predecessor: By 1992, Twin Peaks had gone from critical darling to drag. To many, Fire Walk…
Facebook’s New Plan May Curb Revenge Porn, But Won't Kill It
Facebook needed to move against nonconsensual porn. The scandal surrounding Marines United, a secret Facebook group of 30,000 servicemen who shared dozens of women's private images without permission, proved that. Now, the social media giant finally shuffling in the right direction. On Wednesday, Facebook released new guidelines for how it plans to curb the sharing…