Twin Peaks, the beloved cult series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, is returning to Showtime on Sunday. It’s been 26 years since the original show went off the air. At the time, the show was like a fever dream that warped the conventions of television. But it was also a soap opera with all the complex characters and plot twists that go with that genre.
The series ended with an infamous cliffhanger, one that fans hope the new episodes will address. Read More...
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June 25, 1945 12:00 AM GMT-4
On the White House appointment list were five notable callers—three marines, an Army private, and volcanic General George Smith Patton Jr.
Patton made news by going in unarmed. But he took his riding crop along, waved it rakishly at the cheering White House staff. When a reporter asked about his ivory-handled pistol, Georgie quipped: “Oh, that’s my social pistol.”*
The other fighting men got the Congressional Medal of Honor, in a homey ceremony on the White House lawn. Read More...
Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web.
The technology behind one of the most popular sites on the web traces its roots an early Apple programming tool, HyperCard. Ward Cunningham, an Oregon-based programmer who at the time worked at a company called Tektronix, discovered that he could use HyperCard more efficiently by creating links without checking first to see if the destination page existed. Read More...
