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Remarkably, Jobs had to be talked into having Apple build a phone at all. It had been a topic of conversation among his inner circle almost from the moment Apple introduced the iPod in 2001. The conceptual reasoning was obvious: consumers would rather not carry two or three devices for e-mail, phone calls and music…
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1) Last weekend I realised that I’ve played the board game Monopoly maybe 20 or 30 times in my life, yet I don’t remember anyone actually winning a game. I don’t remember anyone ever saying, “There. I have officially won and the game is now officially over.” Instead I mostly remember bored, irritated people drifting…
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Christy Mathewson and the Thinking Man’s Game
newyorker: Luke Epplin on Christy Mathewson and baseball’s gradual shift from a degenerate to a respectable, even wholesome, game: http://nyr.kr/16AWfSN “In a deliberate efforts to position baseball as the national game at the turn of the twentieth century, the major leagues eagerly upheld Mathewson as the sport’s consummate player and citizen.” Photograph by Matt Slocum/AP.
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emergentfutures: In a world first, CropScan has developed an on-combine analyser to measure protein and moisture in cereal grains and oil, protein and moisture in oil seeds as they are stripped and threshed in a combine harvester. The CropScan 3000H could be a significant game changer for agriculture in Australia and around the world according…
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think azspot: The idea that changed Hofstadter’s existence, as he has explained over the years, came to him on the road, on a break from graduate school in particle physics. Discouraged by the way his doctoral thesis was going at the University of Oregon, feeling “profoundly lost,” he decided in…
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The second iPhone prototype in early 2006 … incorporated a touch-screen and OS X, but it was made entirely of brushed aluminum. Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, were exceedingly proud of it. But because neither of them was an expert in the physics of radio waves, they didn’t realize they created a beautiful…
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thisistheverge: The Internet Archive puts Atari games and obsolete software directly in your browser The Internet Archive has officially released a tool that will let decades-old software run in your browser, along with a catalog of noteworthy, fun, or notorious games and applications. The Archive team has spent two years creating and troubleshooting a JavaScript…
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I’m less interested in the “kick-ass woman who can do it all,” than I am in the people whose flaws, interests, fears, and passions drive and pull them in conflicting directions. Jill Murrayhttp://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-10-25-the-trouble-with-trying-to-write-positive-female-characters (via notgames)
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permanentbutter: MARK A REYNOLDS – from the workbooks
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