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#2yrsago A modern rebuild of the Radio Shack 150-in-One electronics kit
mostlysignssomeportents: While looking into the Kano snap-together learning computer kit (Kickstarted in 2013, reviewed here last January) I got to thinking about Radio Shack’s classic, much-loved 150-in-One Electronics Kit, which occupied literal years of my time when I was a boy. That took me on a journey to Gareth Branwyn’s 2010 Make piece about scratch-building…
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Exquisite Comic happy 50th page
exquisitecomic: Happy 50th Page!Also Happy 1 Year Anniversary!Also Happy Halfway Point!Or Maybe One-Third Point, Depending On What You’re Counting! I wanted to do an extra big page for this one, for all the reasons listed above. Part of the idea of this project was to be a complete narrative, and I think 100 pages is…
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#1yrago William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia
mostlysignssomeportents: With pre-orders open for the graphic novel collecting William Gibson’s amazing comic book Archangel, and a linked novel on the way that ties the 2016 election to the world of The Peripheral, William Gibson has conducted a fascinating interview with Vulture on the surge in popularity in dystopian literature. Gibson reads literary trends as…