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nprplays: From Weekend Edition Saturday: Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope “You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,” Kathleen de Vere says, “and then you do it again.” This rotten game was created in the mid-’90s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games.…
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text-mode: A programming language that is based on Arabic instead of ASCII. قلب is a programming language exploring the role of human culture in coding. Code is written entirely in Arabic, highlighting cultural biases of computer science and challenging the assumptions we make about programming. More at قلب – Ramsey Nasser and check the video.
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Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. […] Books aren’t just commodities; the profit…
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Requiem for Rod Serling
Requiem for Rod Serling Throughout this search, I was reminded of the ingenuity of television’s most provocative voices at the midcentury mark. As noted by the late John Frankenheimer, who directed several Serling scripts for big and small screens, there were no old days when he and other television pioneers like Serling got their start.…
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lehaaz: The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows…