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Mosaic offered many new web features, including support for video clips, sound, forms, bookmarks, and history files. “The striking thing about it was that unlike all the earlier X-browsers, it was all contained in a single file,” Gillies and Cailliau explain: Installing it was as simple as pulling it across the network and running it.…
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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is a much better game than it has any right to be. I’ve seen people write off this experimental combination of toys and cross-platform gaming as a cheap cash-in attempt, but the experiment is wildly successful. The toys look great, the portal technology is interesting, and the games themselves are actually fun.…
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This past weekend, another pregnant woman took a similarly public, if less artistic, approach to her birth. Nancy Salgueiro, 32, an Ottawa chiropractor, childbirth educator, and now mother of three, live-streamed her entire labor and home birth online. Thousands of viewers watched her eating a salad and typing Facebook updates in between contractions, during which…
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In 2006 Budnitz co-designed much of Kidrobot’s acclaimed limited edition apparel line. With clothing pieces priced between $175 and $3000, Kidrobot apparel can be found in Barneys New York and many other high-end retailers worldwide. In December 2007, 10 Dunny toys and 3 Munny toys created by Budnitz & Eaton, with paints by various artists,…
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“People get really fed up with musicians preaching at them all the time.” Nonetheless, he admits, “You have opportunities that I think would be wrong to ignore.” Gabriel is a co-founder, with Richard Branson, of The Elders, a human rights organization designed to “link young people through technology” to statesmen such as Kofi Annan and…
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At 61, has the great musical adventurer grown conservative? In an interview with Salon, Gabriel reveals a complex motive for might seem a backward turn. “I think [Stanley] Kubrick said, ‘If you want to make the future credible, include the past.’ A world that is both familiar and strange is the most interesting to me.”…
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This compressed file contains 9 text files that make up the entire source code for the original Metroid game for the NES. These files are an expansion of SnoBro’s Source code he posted a few years ago. The code has been changed to be assemblable with Ophis instead of x816 because of memory issues. Labels…