John Cox

7 Oct 2026 trivia.cracked.com

10 ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Comics That Will Leave You Contemplating the Meaning of Life

This roundup pulls ten "Calvin and Hobbes" strips where Bill Watterson ditched the whimsy for existential heft, spotlighting moments the boy and his tiger wrestled with absurdity, mortality, war and the passage of time. It's less a joke list than a reminder that Watterson slipped genuine philosophical weight into a syndicated kids' comic, culminating with the strip's famously poignant finale. Worth keeping as a quick clickable anthology of the series' most quietly profound panels.

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29 Aug 2026 Yahoo

These '90s movies are still in our hearts, and they're even better than you remember

A personal, nostalgia-driven countdown of ten underappreciated '90s films—including "Practical Magic," "My Girl," "Drop Dead Fred," "Sister Act," and "The Brady Bunch Movie"—that the author argues were dismissed or flopped on release but proved culturally ahead of their time. It ties the discussion to current 2026 revival news like the "Practical Magic" sequel and re-releases, framing the piece as both a retrospective and a defense of these films' lasting emotional resonance. Worth keeping as a quick reference list of cult '90s picks with brief justifications for each.

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24 Dec 2025 www.mensjournal.com

Dick Van Dyke Shows Off Dance Moves in New Coldplay Video

At 99 years old, Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in a new music video for Coldplay's "All My Love," demonstrating the physical vitality that has defined his seven-decade career in comedy and entertainment. The video serves as a retrospective of his iconic performances, from *The Dick Van Dyke Show* to *Mary Poppins*, while capturing his signature ability to blend physical comedy with self-deprecating humor. Van Dyke's continued dancing and willingness to appear goofy in the project illustrates why he remains a beloved figure in American entertainment—his enduring commitment to joyful, energetic performance.

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6 Dec 2025 www.nytimes.com

Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

I was born in 1976 and this essay argues that [[Generation X]] — the cohort whose members recall the shared, broadcast-TV moments of the late twentieth century — made outsized cultural contributions, as epitomized by the watershed year of 1994, which included the deaths and headlines around [[Kurt Cobain]] and [[O.J. Simpson]]’s white Ford Bronco chase, the presidency of [[Bill Clinton]] and the coming into force of [[NAFTA]], and the debut of shows like [[Friends]] and [[ER]]. The author situates personal memory (after‑school aloneness, wood‑paneled basements) alongside a cascade of influential films and albums to interrogate where Gen X begins and ends, how its boundaries are contested, and why its artistic output and collective experience warrant reconsideration as a defining cultural force, and its generational legacy in politics and the economy.

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17 May 2023 Lifehacker

Relive Your Childhood Games With This Free CD-ROM Archive

The Internet Archive maintains a vast collection of over 46,000 CD-ROM files spanning from roughly 1989 to 2001, allowing you to rediscover games and software from your childhood like JumpStart, Backyard Sports, and console titles. You can run many of these old programs on modern Windows computers using compatibility mode, which simulates earlier operating systems, by right-clicking the .exe file and selecting the compatibility troubleshooter. The Archive also offers additional nostalgic resources including over 2,600 playable arcade games in a web browser and a broader software collection with over 71,000 entries across various categories.

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26 Feb 2014 zachholman.com

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

This is a nostalgic and humorous romp through 1990s web development techniques—blinking marquees, transparent 1x1 GIF spacer files for layout, stacked   entities for spacing, pixel fonts, and DHTML—presented as if these crude hacks were revolutionary innovations worthy of Grammys and Pulitzers. The author celebrates the ingenuity required to work around the technical limitations of the era while gently mocking both the absurdity of these methods and modern developers' dismissal of them, ultimately suggesting that today's layered abstractions are no better than the chaotic creativity that built the early web.