I really don't get the whole craze around the NES classic.  I never had an NES (but I've played games on it).  I've played enough games on emulators, and granted the keyboard isn't as satisfying as a gamepad,  if I felt like playing those games more often I'd go the Sweets route (orange cat here) - just get the original console and a CRT ;-)

Not sure why I thought of Romania, but I don't think that I've head music from the Romanian charts before...so I looked around. Romania Yalla by Inna Verdict: This is definitely my kind of music.  Need to find more of Inna.  I was pleasantly surprised to hear Arabic as well  (didn't seem like the kind of singer who would be multilingual). Can't vouch for the accuracy of the Arabic,

Άντε, καλό μας μήνα, και καλή τύχη στις εξεταστικές! ;-)

More poking fun at the intro of the motion picture (original archive here)

Well...it took a while...a long while, but this game is done ;-)  I had started to play this game part time on my 3DS because I wanted to get through the entirety of the assassin's creed series before I got an xbox one.  I had originally played this on my jailbroken iPhone 3GS many years ago (back in the iOS 4.x days) and I found the game extremely (extremely!) frustrating to control

I guess there is a need to be ever vigilant... (via boingboing)

Χα χα! Τι θυμήθηκα...

This is found via BoingBoing, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Something to think about in Trump's America...

I am not sure if  I've heard anything from the Portuguese music charts...so here it goes! This was #1 in the charts in Portugal this past week Portugal Até pensei que fosse minha by Antonio Zambujo Verdict: This song is probably good for a cold and snowy day, sitting by the fireplace. Other than that, for me, it doesn't really strike a cord (pun intended) ;-)

Motion picture innovations (along with the disco inpired uniforms), they had this thing that looked like a giant belt buckle.  Seems like a technology fannie-pack (in the American sense of the word) to me :) (original archive here)