When the Yankees played the Phillies in the 1950 World Series, television was still an infant medium.There were only 3.9 million TV households in America, according to Nielsen Media, in a country with about 150 million people.For the four games, three networks had the rights: CBS, NBC and ABC. In New York, that meant viewers with TV sets could watch on WCBS-TV/Channel 2, WNBT-TV/Channel 4 and WJZ-TV/Channel 7. You might have had to adjust your antennas. Also in the mix was WOR-TV/Channel 9, a pa
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When we launched our web site featuring the best in math comic strips, one of our main goals was to offer a vehicle to teach math to children. In this world of heavy distractions, such as television and video games, we realized that we would be coming up against some heavy competition. Math is too many kids, well, boring, and too much like work. How could we possibly make learning math fun? We chose the vehicle of a comic book for a number of reasons. For starters, comic books have stood the t
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I was originally going to include Bioshock in my last post about steampunk games. What ended up happening was that as I wrote about Bioshock’s steampunk aspects, the more I thought about the game’s underlying social/pulp sci-fi themes as opposed to steampunk. The underwater city of Rapture itself falls pretty clearly into mid-century sci-fi with its ambiguously-defined tech and 1940s chic. That said, it’s hard to get more steampunk in look and feel than the terrifying Big Daddies, who would
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The divorce case of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and wife Jamie McCourt took an ugly turn on Wednesday morning when a huge pile of documents were delivered to the Los Angeles Superior Court before a hearing. In those documents, Frank details the trip the Jamie took with her bodyguard, Jeff Fuller . The two first went to Israel then made a stop in France. Who footed the bill for the trip? The Dodgers. Jamie McCourt’s lawyers have decided not to comment on the documents until they have h
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Open Question: What type of snobs do you hate? book snobs- they are always complaining about how 2hr 20min doesnt go into as much detail as a 600 page book. Its just pisses me off because they still go see the movie and then still complain halo snobs- these people annoy the hell out of it because they act like no other game can be good as halo. halo most overrated game ever also tech snobs, sports snob those are the one that i really hate yea i dont like starbuck snobs Power Play
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