Rainbow in Suburbia

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NASA's restored video showing Neil Armstrong's first moonwalk

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Interactive fiction, from birth through precocious adolescence: a conversation with Jimmy Maher

A great interview, on Adventure Classic Gaming. Was something like Adventure inevitable? That’s a tough question, but I think probably so. I’d say that the real wild-card here is not Adventure but rather Adventure‘s inspiration, Dungeons and Dragons. You just can’t exaggerate the importance of D&D to all of the many storygames that have followed it.…

Quirk Classics #2: Book Trailer

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Pronouns Must Agree in Number with Referents

Clearly by “Them” the sign means “dogs,” but the since the sign refers instead to “Your Dog,” so it was already in need of some attention even before this alteration took place. Via Bryan Alexander. Similar:My understanding of biased polls is… (choose one) AmusingChurnalism SearchAt the University of Virginia, one summe…CultureRossum's Universal Robots (Act 2)https://youtu.be/XfOONrGsf2I For…

We Choose the Moon

A website will re-create the 1969 moon mission in real time (allowing for the 40-year time lag).  http://wechoosethemoon.org/ Similar:SportsWorks Adventure at the Carnegie Science CenterI confess that I have never been all tha…CultureFamily catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted to …PersonalThank You, Verizon, for this…

Views: The Case of the Disappearing Liberal Arts College – Inside Higher Ed

The gradual, and almost invisible, transformation of many “liberal arts colleges” to more comprehensive institutions is similar to another gradual trend that has reshaped the composition and the work of the American academic profession. Over the past three decades, colleges and universities have replaced tenure-track faculty positions with part-time and full-time term-contract positions — a…

Google to launch operating system

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Steampunk Gears and Hearts

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