80s

Being a child of the 1980s, I love the music of that decade and I was looking forward to hearing track after track of upbeat, synthesized accompaniments and big hair sounds. There are plenty of examples of the classic '80s sound on the album, but it's Read More

Sometimes technical flaws, entrenched competition, a prohibitive price point, or merely the fickle tastes of the public can result in the untimely death of an otherwise (for its time) brilliant piece of technology. We begin the Remembering Technology Read More

Transformers 3 opens this week, but I will not be going to see it. I know it can't hold a candle to the awesomeness that was these cartoons that I would watch every afternoon when I got home from elementary school in the mid-to-late '80s. Read More

From Big Bang Theory's Sheldon to President Obama making references to dilithium crystals, geeks are cool. But it wasn't always that way. Before these movies came along in the 80s, nerds and geeks were social pariahs. But now, everyone recognizes the Read More