The ill-fated Apollo 13 missions launched on this day, April 11th, 47 years ago today in the year 1970. The mission was famously portrayed in the 1995 film Apollo 13 which, while somewhat inaccurate on many elements, and slightly altered for the sake of drama, still told the story well enough for most people to …
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HHGregg Is Closing All 220 Stores – This Doesn’t Surprise Me
Home technology store chain HHGregg is closing all of its 220 stores after failing to find a buyer for the now-struggling company. It’s the usual case of a business going into the red financially and filing chapter 11 bankruptcy to try to liquidate all its assets, pay its debts, and maybe restructure and get back …
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Alleged IRS Scammer Kingpin Gets Arrested In Mumbai!
In a nice bit of scammer news, a man by the name of Sagar Thakkar was arrested in Mumbai as the suspected leader of a ring of IRS phone scammers. I’ve covered a few of these scams before, where people are cold-called out of nowhere and told that they owe some extremely high amount in …
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I Finally Got An NES Classic Edition Console!
It took long enough, but patience paid off – I got an NES Classic Edition. Oh, sure, it isn’t something many people are talking about anymore, but it’s still an item fetching high prices on eBay and Amazon, and since it isn’t in stores at all anymore, well, you’re hard pressed to get one if …
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The Computer Chronicles – Build Your Own PC (1992)
Building your own computer is considered pretty much the standard these days in most computer enthusiast circles – dare to mention you use a store-bought desktop and even if you have done some damn fine upgrades, odds are someone is going to find some issue with it and try to give you hell for simply …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 7: McKids – Episode Review
This time the Nerd rips into a product placement disguised as a video game: McKids for the NES.
Bits And Bytes – Program 3: How Programs Work
Ah, programs. You’re using one right now, whether you realize it or not. Actually, you’re using several. Probably several dozen at once, and you don’t even know it. The browser you’re viewing this website with, that’s a program. The operating system your computer or mobile device is using is, guess what, a program. The extra …
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“Psycho Family” Documentary Review
Psycho Family is a documentary, released April 3rd of 2017, which covers the story of the YouTube video phenomena known as “The Psycho Series.” I covered the gist of the series in my previous article on the documentary, so we will skip that and go right into the review. The Documentary is broken up into …
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The Jetpack 4.8 Plugin Is Breaking Many WordPress Websites
Update: The plugin has indeed had version 4.8.1 released, which seems to fix the issues present in the original 4.8 release. This article is being kept as is for archival sake as a reminder to be careful when using new software in a production environment, at least on day zero. Update 2: In testing the …
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Psycho Family: The McJuggerNuggets Documentary
On June 6th, 2016, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway ended what would become known as “The Psycho Series”, a 3 year video series that spanned at its core 50 episodes, but in total included well over 600 videos over those 3 years, all of which told the story of a young gamer and his dysfunctional family. You …
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Cassini’s Grand Finale
On September 15th, 2017, NASA’s Cassini mission will come to an end after 13 years studying Saturn and just shy of 20 years in space. Known as the “Grand Finale,” the end of life for the Cassini probe will be quite the dramatic event. On April 26th, 2017, Cassini will make a final orbital change …
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Game Accessory Maker Mad Catz Is No More
UPDATE: The company returned on January 4th, 2018: http://www.xadara.com/the-return-of-mad-catz/ Back on March 30th, 2017, video game hardware accessory maker Mad Catz announced it was closing, after filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy and being de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange. The company has been spiraling downhill for quite some time now, sadly, and while there are …
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The Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them – 1917 N.C.R Promotional Film
YouTube is full of interesting historic films of all types. I’ve been on quite the binge of old 1950’s and earlier informational films (I have no idea why, I’ve just been watching a bunch of them) and one popped up in my feed from 1917 – A film produced by NCR, one of the worlds …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 6: Back To The Future – Episode Review
A legendary film, with a legendarily bad game — this time the Nerd takes a look at Back to the Future for the NES!
SpaceX Successfully Re-flies A Falcon 9 First Stage!
Looks like the engineering teams at SpaceX did things right – the 1st stage of the Falcon 9 rocket for the SES-10 launch, which was used last April for the CRS-8 Mission, not only flew successfully, apparently they re-landed the stage on a drone ship in the ocean. Again. Yeah, the stage successfully launched and …
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