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thingsmagazine: Character Generators, from the <i>Usbourne Guide to TV & Video</i>, 1982
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thingsmagazine: Character Generators, from the <i>Usbourne Guide to TV & Video</i>, 1982
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The first great iPad newspaper experiment is over. News Corp. has announced that it is shutting down The Daily on December 15, and that some staffers will head to The New York Post. News Corp. Shuts Down The Daily – FishbowlNY
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The first great iPad newspaper experiment is over. News Corp. has announced that it is shutting down The Daily on December 15, and that some staffers will head to The New York Post. News Corp. Shuts Down The Daily – FishbowlNY
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The inside story of Pong
jkottke: On the 40th anniversary of the seminal game’s invention, Chris Stokel-Walker looks back at the history of Pong and why it was such a big deal for the gaming industry. On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California, and…
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Being in media is terrifying right now. Whereas in the old days, you wrote something and then a fleet of people printed it and handed it to X hundred thousand people so they would read it, now, the fleet is gone. You are alone out there in the ocean and there’s not much that anyone…
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Being in media is terrifying right now. Whereas in the old days, you wrote something and then a fleet of people printed it and handed it to X hundred thousand people so they would read it, now, the fleet is gone. You are alone out there in the ocean and there’s not much that anyone…
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In 1969, Ampex created and maintained the Videofile system, which recorded files and photos to a magnetic videotape system long before the advent of commercial computer hard drives (to this day, Britain’s New Scotland Yard still uses the Videofile system to store perpetrators’ fingerprints) A random UK reference aside in Chris Stokel-Walker’s post at Buzzfeed on The…
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Sheep stemmed from my basic interest in the problem of differentiating the authentic human being from the reflexive machine, which I call an “android.” In my mind “android” is a metaphor for people who are psychologically human but behaving in a nonhuman way. –Philip K Dick we’re all androids now (via ario)