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“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting...”
– Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book
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30 Songs In... An Instant
A few months back, there was a brief Facebook meme in which people posted a song a day for 30 days conforming to a variety of criteria which would illuminate aspects of their soul you’d never have expected. Well, I collected and pondered, but the idea of parceling these out over 30 days stuns me into insensibility. So here’s a bunch of music you can find on YouTube which makes me...
February 2011
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A Brief History Of Gaming...
The scope years…
1952 - OXO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkiwn7u8i8s
1958 - Tennis For Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2E9iSQfGdg
The mainframe years
1962 - Space War
http://spacewar.oversigma.com/
1969 - Space Travel
(Contributed significantly to the development of Unix O/S)
(First UNIX application)
The arcade years
1971 - Galaxy Game
(First coin op)
One unit, installed in Stanford...
January 2011
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Codex Seraphinus
Here’s something a bit… odd. Found courtesy of the Mysterious Universe podcast, the Codex Seraphinus is a ‘lost’ or at least rare, out of print book. http://www.archive.org/details/Codex-Seraphinianus A real copy costs approx $8000, but a PDF of the whole thing can be found using the link above. I love me the Internets.
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