Errol and Pifie, two members of the 50 Songs in 90 Days songwriting challenge (known as 50/90) have created a nerd-core masterpiece. A rockin' walkthrough to the original ZORK text adventure game.

Wondering how Arkanoid, Tetris or Pong were created?

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The Cold War computing race from the Russian side, including the development of the MESM -- for 'Small Electronic Counting Machine' -- powered by more than 6000 vacuum tubes.

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Terminator is a cross-platform GPL terminal emulator with advanced features not yet found elsewhere.

I recently spoke with an IT manager who was budgeting for an Office 2010 upgrade from Office 2003. I casually asked him what features he had deemed important enough to justify a $100,000 budget item. He thought for a minute and admitted that he couldn't think of a single one. So I asked the logical follow-up: Why are you buying it? He had no answer for that either. The $100,000 line item disappeared. He's also sticking with XP.

In his closing talk from last month's Reboot conference in Copenhagen, Bruce Sterling guesses at what it will be like to live through the next ten years: 'It is neither progress nor conservatism because there's nothing left to conserve and no direction in which to progress. So what you get is transition. Transition to nowhere.'

Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts war die "Lese-Sucht" ein anerkanntes Krankheitsbild. Ein Zeitgenosse berichtet, wie diese bedauernswerten Bücher-Junkies "mit dem Buche in der Hand aufstehen und zu Bette gehen, sich damit zu Tische setzen, es neben der Arbeit liegen haben, auf Spaziergängen sich damit tragen und sich von der einmal angefangenen Lektüre nicht wieder trennen können, bis sie sie vollendet haben. Aber kaum ist die letzte Seite eines Buches verschlungen, so sehen sie sich schon wieder gierig um, wo sie ein anderes herbekommen wollen".