Last week I was watching some videos receiving far-away TV transmission when this video was recommended by YouTube – it’s a 1986 American public access show which covers Soviet state TV recorded over 1985 and 1986 – this includes comedy programs, news (including an early Chernobyl report), game shows,special reports on their space program, and …
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Wham Bam Thank You Scam – A YouTuber Tracks Down People Who Scammed Him
I don’t just pay attention to tech support scams. I find most any type of scam interesting, not just in the actual application of such and spreading awareness of these things, but also the back-end of these scams: where these people come from, how they pull off what they do, and how they skirt the …
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So The NES Classic Edition Got Hacked To Have Virtually The Entire NES Library On It
Well, we all knew this was an inevitbility – A little while ago the NES Classic Edition got hacked, apparently, and the group behind such was able to add in around 60 games, or so I understand. Well, this past week that number grew to, oh, about 700. This basically covers the entire NES library, …
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No, I Don’t Really Care About Sports, And That’s Okay – Part 2
In part 1 of this article series, I covered the general idea of sports, especially football, being so commonplace that fans find it odd when people don’t seem to care, but it’s perfectly fine and normal for people, well, not to care. Read Part 1 Here! In this post I wanted to cover more of …
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No, I Don’t Really Care About Sports, And That’s Okay – Part 1
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Oh wait, they don’t like it when you say Super Bowl, so it’s “The Big Game” day! Right, a day where the most boring, most over hyped event ever happens. Yeah, as you could tell from that opening line, and the title of the post, I just don’t give a …
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The Computer Chronicles – Greatest Computer Games (1995)
In this 1995 episode of The Computer Chronicles, Stuart Cheifet takes a look at the cutting-edge in gaming entertainment in the mid 90’s. This was quite an interesting time for home gaming, as 3D graphics rendering was reaching a point where decent quality images could be generated in real time. Windows 95 brought DirectX technology, …
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The GameStop “Circle of Life” Policy May Make Associates Lie To You
A big piece of gaming news this week that I just had to put my say into is the leak by GameStop employees of the details of a policy called “Circle of Life”, which basically is a quota set that each store, and its employees, must reach each month. These quotas are in all but …
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NASA Day Of Remembrance
On the tail end of January each year, NASA does its “Day of Remembrance” where they honor the astronauts who have died not just in active missions but also in training accidents, tests, or other situations. Of course, the heavy focus is spent on 3 particular missions: Apollo 1, STS-51L, and STS-107. Apollo 1, as …
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Who Is Behind A Pop-up Scam?
Another video from Jim Browning today, this one another case of him hunting down the people behind a pop-up based tech support scam. Sure enough, much like the previous tech support scam video I shared, a quick bit of detective work on Jim’s part gets him in touch with a very nervous sounding company owner. …
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Space Shuttle Challenger Accident Investigation
This video, which was shared in my post last year about Challenger, details the events of the disaster. It explains the root causes of the disaster and takes an extremely detailed look at the 73 second flight of Challenger, the development of the fire plume in the right SRB, and the eventual disintegration of the …
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Apollo 1 News Reports
News spread rather quickly following the fire of Apollo 1. This was back when news really focused on telling the story, rather than on what ratings it will bring in – certainly a different time in media. In any case, many news reports, or snippets from such, are available online. Here are a few more …
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Ad Astra Per Aspera
Ad Astra Per Aspera “A rough road leads to the stars” 6:31 PM Eastern Time, January 27th, 1967 This post was shared at 5:31 PM on January 27th, 2017, exactly 50 years to the instant from when the fire happened. It was originally set to share via social media, but didn’t for some reason.
Apollo 1, 50 Years Later
This is a day I’ve been thinking about for many years now, as I rekindled my love of space flight and its history – The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire, and event which nearly killed the Apollo program, but at the same time caused such improvements to the spacecraft that it may have …
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The NES Classic Edition Is Back In Stores, And It’s Still Rare
I was super late on my post about the NES Classic yesterday – I should have written it earlier in the week when I first got wind, but I got tied up in things. In any case, yes, the NES Classic Edition is back on store shelves, or at least, it is until the stores …
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For The First Time In 50 Years, The Apollo 1 Hatch Is On Display
January 27th, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire, an event I’ve written about more than any other single event on this site. For the past 50 years, since the disaster, NASA has pretty much buried it. Unlike Challenger and Columbia, which occurred in 1986 and 2003 respectively, the 1967 deaths of …
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