Walking Dead to Westeros: The Best TV of 2012

<em>Walking Dead</em> to Westeros: The Best TV of 2012

Here they are: the best geeky shows of 2012.

Remembering Joe Woodland, the Man Who Invented the Bar Code

Remembering Joe Woodland, the Man Who Invented the Bar Code

Joe Woodland -- who died last week at the age of 91 -- is the man who dreamt up what became the Universal Product Code, the ubiquitous bar code used to ring up your groceries every time you visit the supermarket.

Does Home Alone stand the test of time?

Does the kid-vs.-adults sadism of the Home Alone movies stand the test of time?



The Internet is choked with nostalgia for the youth-oriented entertainments of the not-too-distant past: Tumblr blogs regurgitating images of half-forgotten toys. YouTube compilations of long-lost TV-show intros. Countless blogs playing “Remember when?” with movies and videogames whose rose-colored recollections aren’t always properly earned. With Memory Wipe, The A.V. Club takes a look back at some of our formative favorites with clearer eyes and asks that all-important question: Were they really that great to begin with?

The Home Alone house is real. It’s not an elaborate example of set design sitting somewhere on the 20th Century Fox backlot—it’s an actual 1920s Georgian, located at 671 Lincoln Ave. in the tiny Chicago suburb of Winnetka. You can check it out on Google Street View (that white van next door looks awfully suspicious), and up until this past March, you could also purchase the place, as someone recently ...

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