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Yep. But Asteroids is quite a sophisticated example, isn’t it? (via Abstruse Goose)
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Mad Men set photos. Someone really ought to do a gallery of ‘laptops from the future’ in stages and film sets. Previously. (via Boing Boing)
I can’t explain why I like this. Suddently I hope someone would actually write a Tumblr client for the Atari 2600 as they did a Twitter client for the ZX Spectrum. I actually had a 2600 when I was a kid, a few year after I had my Spectrum. It rocked my world despite the much poorer graphics and sound (if such a thing is possible), because the games loaded instantly.
My fastest machine ever. (via Topherchris)
“Neco Toüch is a game “all the rage among German children” that awards points for befriending feral cats with careful touches on the nose (eliciting purrs is a 1000pt bonus).”
Feral cats, really? I’d like to see the real version of that. Famicase Gallery: 2010’s best imaginary 8-bit games.
Nick Gentry, for instance, uses floppy disks as canvas.
Not long ago I wrote about my first computer, which my father got me for my seventh birthday. But I had never seen an advertisment for it before. (via Pedro Quintas)
360 degree video for next-to-nothing
Something to try.
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
I wholeheartedly agree with Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker on the main virtue of Windows: no zealots. I dislike Macs by the same reason why I’ll defend my crappy ‘95 Punto against every verbal assault. It works for me, so shut up already. (via The Null Device)
I’ve watched the entire series of Tim Hunkin’s The Secret Life of Machines (page includes torrent links, you can also stream it here). Not only it is a example of really good television that is entertaining and educational, it’s also a reminder of a simpler, gentler era when TV documentaries could be concise, without all those constant “later on… but first”, “after the break…” that are the scourge of cable television documentaries. Despite being twenty years dated, SLOM does a great job at explaining the fundamental building blocks of today’s technology. When technology is deliberately mystified and made to seem like magic (I’m sick of those docs that promise to tell you How It’s Made and then just show you some assembly line without explaining much), The Secret Life of Machines may very well be essential viewing.
I’ll now watch Why Things Go Wrong, which also seems pretty interesting.