The only one I remember were the instant coffee commercials from the early 90s about a couple played by Sharon Maughan and Anthony Head. The campaign originated for Nescafé Gold Blend brand in the UK, and then was repurposed (with deviating storyline) for the North American market for Taster’s Choice.

For a more cyberpunk feel, check out some synthwave, a genre that aims to recreate the hacker/neon-noir/modern horror vibe of 80s films. Carpenter Brut and Perturbator are my faves, but there’s tonnes more out there. Most of this stuff is pretty high tempo and high energy.

Well, if it’s a college library, it’s probably Library of Congress Classification sort.

For decades, the tourism industry of one of Canada’s provinces has been bolstered by Japanese fans of a hundred-year-old Canadian novel.

The halberd is like a Late Medieval Swiss Army knife: “It’s a spear! It’s an axe! It’s a hook!”

Not just science education—the liberal arts too. It's a lot harder to hold up the faith you were raised with as The Single Divine Truth when you learn that there are many other faiths out there, with millions of believers, centuries of history, their own scriptures, and doctrines and rituals just as detailed and…

He might be thinking more in terms of this Cracked article, which skewers six classic games for actually being terrible, but then suggests alternatives that are both entry-level and more fun.

Thanks for posting that, that was a good review. I hope there's still a market for those plug & play consoles (or something similar, like maybe a decent iteration of Ouya) for my future kids/nieces/nephews in a couple years. Tablets have some good gaming options on them but they lack that great oldschool arcade/8-bit…

There are—or were—small, relatively inexpensive devices with a controller or two you can plug directly into a TV, and they could play a few 2600-era games, maybe with some sprite-swapping or branding.

It would be. I'm willing to overlook it in the main novel series aimed primarily at children and younger teens, that doesn't really explore its own history back more than several decades other than some worldbuilding stories and legends (e.g., the Hogwarts' founders, the original owners of the Deathly Hallows). But it…

The Abrahamic religions' opposition to witchcraft is founded on the notion that magic involves pacts with demons, false gods, or otherwise attempts to beseech a power other than God's. As far as I can remember, no wizard or witch in the HP novels, not even the Death Eaters, call upon any outside entity for their…

I just feel the WiiU and the handhelds are the last real gaming consoles. The PS4 and XBox One are pretty much built with similar off-the-shelf PC components and just their walled garden ecosystems (XBLA, PSN) and a handful of exclusives to distinguish them.

Among Italian-Canadians, there's even a word for it: Italiese. That's when Italian immigrants take an English word and pronounce it as if it's an Italian one. E.g. the English word "store". In Standard Old World Italian, the equivalent is "negozio". In Italiese, it's "storo".

Anytime someone on the internet knows the "dystopian gladiatorial games" genre is older than Battle Royale, a leather-clad revolutionary against the oppressive police state gets his wings. :-)

Sven-Ole Thorsen! He was one of Arnie's buddies from their weightlifting days, so he brought him on to Conan the Barbarian because director John Milius wanted everybody Conan fought to be bigger than Arnie, and he continues to pop up in Arnold's movies afterwards. As a kid, I also loved him as "Tank" Ellis in the Capta…

Not sure if it's your type of game, but you might be interested in this recently-crowdfunded indie RPG, set in ancient India (or fantasy version thereof): http://pyrodactyl.com/

This.

Colossus and its Soviet counterpart, Guardian, decide in the end that humanity will have world peace—and prosperity—so long as they give up the means to wage war. But Forbin insists humanity will be defiant to the end. Even though near as I can tell, Colossus and Guardian don't really care to intervene in any other…

At least half the ones mentioned here wouldn't exist without these old-timers, so:

Embargo off!