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I absolutely adored Spock. Loving Dad was much more complicated.

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I heard the boy tell Raffi that all his friends had left the playground and the kids who remained weren’t…

A Successful Failure: The TI-99/4A Turns 40

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My family had one of these when I was 12 or 13. The games I remember include a Pac-Man clone…

How Nasty Was Nero, Really?

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In The New Yorker, Rebecca Reed reports on modern historians' efforts to rehabilitate the Roman emperor Nero, whose name has…

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The latest in Aaron A. Reed’s monumental project” 50 Years of Text Games” focuses on Graham Nelson’s programming language Inform,…

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In May, 2001 I was blogging about lanuguage, design and Cliffs Notes

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In May 2001, I was blogging about Business and the English language (a humorous rant against business jargon) -- Clint…

Veteran’s microphone cut off when he discusses Black people’s role in establishing Memorial Day

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Who is this nobody Memorial Day keynote speaker who dared to make white patriots feel discomfort by bringing up facts…

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