The Floppotron Grows, Goes To the Circus

It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the Floppotron, and since last we left it, it’s gotten quite a bit bigger. It’s now up to version 3.0 and includes 512 floppy drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners. Ridiculous. Here it is playing Julius Fucík’s Entrance of the Gladiators, A.K.A. that clown song …

The RCA SelectaVision: The Forgotten Format That Maybe Could Have Changed Media As We Know It

If you’ve got an hour or so to burn and you’re interested in technologies that didn’t end up working out, you might enjoy this deep dive into RCA’s SelectaVision, an attempt to modify a record player to make low cost home video possible. It was a pretty neat idea that made a good bit of …

A Modern Christmas Classic. Better Than That Hallmark Crap, At Any Rate

I’m not sure which bots wrote this or what if any human assistance they may have had in doing so (parts of it are so perfectly ridiculous that I feel like there has to have been some), but I enjoyed it more than I do most Christmas movies, so that’s good enough for me. By …

Christmas Carol Lyrics You Won’t Hear At The Mall

I saw this the other day and I wasn’t sure if I was going to post it. Then I was walking around the Christkindl Market and listening to carols, and my mind was converting them to these ones…so I decided it needed a spot. I guess this showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live last year. …