An '80s themed holiday website? Have I died? A Betamax Xmas is the greatest thing to happen to me this holiday season since I asked Santa for a TiVo HD XL and he said maybe. The site is set up like an old living room with a big tube TV in the center, which plays nothing but vintage Christmas programming. You can even change the channel if you get sick of reindeer cartoons and decide you're jonesing for some heart-warming claymation. To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group, read more...
Having developed the first diode device back in the 80s, Kodak knows a thing or two about OLEDs. So it's no surprise (ok, maybe a little) to see them rolling out the world's first 7.6-inch OLED photo frame. CNET got its hands on the $1,000 device considered a "vanity piece" at that price. It offers "brilliant color" as you'd expect and "sharp" 800 x 480 pixel images on the thin OLED panel pushing a 30,000:1 contrast ratio. The WiFi panel connects to Flickr and Kodak's own photo sharing service (if you must) but will not transfer images from Macs...
Filed under: Lunch, Food Oddities, Eggs For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.Check out Firepile's zany, 80s retro-looking bento. We've got twin soy ham and swiss stove-top frittatas (Firepile links to recipe) in little silver cupcake liners, slices of polenta, celery, broccoli slaw, and two stacks of tomato and mozzarella skewered with neon green geometric toothpicks. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments...
This morning's keynote was from aeronautical superstar Burt Rutan, giving a low-BS explanation of why innovation doesn't usually happen in technical pursuits, and how to encourage it (and presumably come up with more cool stuff like his Spaceship 2, shown above). Key points: >>" Your ability to innovate is inversely proportional to your client's self-perceived sophistication." This is why, for example, Rutan's company Scaled Composites could never have built a spaceship for NASA--they're too sure of their own expertise to take risks. >>Innovation occurs in periods of adversity. In the 60s we went to the moon, in the 80s...
From A Hamburger Today Over the weekend, while I was trying not to work, we at A Hamburger Today received this email from longtime reader and frequent commenter Phauxtoe: Hey, I got a bone to pick with you guys. Today (Friday) I stopped at Burger King to get a road coffee (nothing else). I saw an ad the menu for "BURGER SHOTS," with and without cheese.I guess they have moved into the slider market.Here is the problem: I read your site everyday or so—why do I have to hear about this on the streets?Thanks but no thanks, Phauxtoe Trying my...
With the Thanksgiving turkey behind us, here's something else you don't eat regularly: meaty balls. Check out The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking with Balls by Serbian chef, Ljubomir Erovic. This multimedia cookbook tells you how to peel and slice animal testicles to make such wonders as Testicle Pizza - just add your own toppings! Wouldn't you know *it* tastes like chicken. But *it* works like Viagra! Ever since I was a little boy I listened to the elderly talking about testicles, when well prepared and cooked, can stimulate sexual activities. It seemed funny and stupid to me then, until as...
79% of our readers thought that $25,000 was a hubba-fied price for 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z, but maybe that's because 80s nostalgia hasn't taken a firm enough hold of our culture yet. That's why we're going with a car everyone appreciates: Herbie The Love Bug! Unlike what you'd experience with your $21,750 General Lee Replicas, you won't keep running across other Herbies out there, because the world Herbie-to-General-Lee ratio is about 1:150 these days. This '63 Beetle has had an obsessively thorough restoration, and the price shows it: $20,000. Cool car, but 20 grand worth of cool? You decide!...
Thanks to NBC, there's probably not anyone left who hasn't been Rickroll'd. It started out innocently enough as the characters from Cartoon Network's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends strolled through the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. But during one of the stops in which the creatures were in the middle of a song, 80s pop star Rick Astley emerged out of nowhere and started belting out the all too familiar "Never Gonna Give You Up." At the end of the song, one of the creatures exclaims "I like Rickrolling!" Apparently, so does NBC.This isn't the first time event goers have unwittingly...
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. I've been looking for a DOTS-worthy Subaru for a long time, but it seems that most of the 70s and 80s examples were crushed long ago. While I'd prefer a BRAT, we'll have to settle for this Justy. First, let's listen to the song I always hear in my head when contemplating a tiny Subaru from the days before mall parking lots were full of the things. Dr. Demento was a big fan of this tune,...
Dude, eMarketer, you’ve gotta make up your mind. Yesterday you’re all doom and gloom about online video revenue, and today you announce, “The Future of Online Video Looks Bright.” What gives? Well, turns out this new report is more a compilation of research about video consumption from throughout the year. There’s a section about monetization, but it cites Strategy Analytics revenue forecasts rather than eMarketer’s own data. What eMarketer wants to talk about is video viewership — which is still on its way up, of course. The firm says says the U.S. audience for online video will hit 190 million...
Filed under: TV on DVD, Video, Animation, Reality-FreeFinally. Time Life has released the long-awaited The Real Ghostbusters: The Complete Collection on DVD. And it's frackin' loaded. The mammoth $179.99 set features all 147 eps of The Real Ghostbusters, plus more than twelve hours of extras, all packed in a box with hologram panels that resembles the firehouse from the show. Looks like I'm gonna have to sell my car. For $179.99.I won't go on about how this animated spinoff of the Ghostbusters movie was the best thing on Saturday morning in the late 80s and early 90s (but it was),...
An awkward cross-breed time-travelling mongrel is a fairly fitting description for this mod that's jammed an Atari 2600 emulator into the shell of a Sega Game Gear. Sure, it's not the prettiest of mods, but taking the '80s-era Atari and squishing it into the '90s-era Sega took some tricky work: it has a built-in 40-game Atari chip, and can actually take 2600 carts into a slot on the back. The resulting "Atari Game 2600" has a 2.5-inch screen and can go for 7-8 hours on AA batteries, which seems pretty impressive. [Ben Heck via Technabob]...
There are lots of vintage ad collections out there, and it’s always a fun to look through them. For your viewing pleasure, we have handpicked nine of the most fun, creative or just plain weird computer ads we have ever seen. Below you will find classic ads from Apple, Texas Instruments, IBM, BASF, Honeywell, Maxell and more. Two hot bytes Apple getting witty about their name A maybe even sexy 1200 bps modem Back when Bill Cosby was all the rage A dragon with a chip on its shoulder The indestructible 3.5-inch floppy (most optimistic ad ever?) In the future,...
