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October 2013

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Rocky's Boots (1982) (The Learning Company) : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Company
Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982. It was released for the Apple II, the CoCo, the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. It was followed by a more difficult sequel, Robot Odyssey. It won Software of the Year awards from Learning Magazine (1983), Parent's Choice magazine (1983), and Infoworld magazine (1982, runner-up), and received the Gold Award (for selling 100,000 copies) from the Software Publishers Association. It was one of the first educational software products for personal computers to successfully use an interactive graphical simulation as a learning environment.
#design #electronics #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #24302

Review: Composition Tools Fargo, Medium, Editorially, Marquee, and More | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520246/as-we-may-type/
In 1984, the personal-computer industry was still small enough to be captured, with reasonable fidelity, in a one-volume publication, the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It told the curious what was up: “On an unlovely flat artifact called a disk may be hidden the concentrated intelligence of thousands of hours of design.” And filed under “Organizing” was one review of particular note, describing a program called ThinkTank, created by a man named Dave Winer.
#cms #design #imported:pinboard #outliners #software #writing
archive.org #32121

Review: Composition Tools Fargo, Medium, Editorially, Marquee, and More | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520246/as-we-may-type
In 1984, the personal-computer industry was still small enough to be captured, with reasonable fidelity, in a one-volume publication, the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It told the curious what was up: “On an unlovely flat artifact called a disk may be hidden the concentrated intelligence of thousands of hours of design.” And filed under “Organizing” was one review of particular note, describing a program called ThinkTank, created by a man named Dave Winer.
#cms #design #outliners #software #writing
archive.org #24291

www.nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/opinion/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?_r=1&
The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32132

www.nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/opinion/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?_r=1
The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #pocket
archive.org #24262

Why Fundamentalist Christians Fear Intellectualism - The God Article

http://www.thegodarticle.com/7/post/2013/10/-why-fundamentalist-christians-fear-intellectualism.html
Intellectualism invites the constant assessment of the “correctness” of a person's belief system. That's dangerous ground for a fundamentalist Christian. When you confront them on a particular belief you are not only confronting them on an idea that they have held to more rigidly for a longer time than most other folks but you are confronting the very core of who they understand themselves to be. For them, it is on those core beliefs upon which their salvation hangs in the balance, at least in part. Questioning it doesn't just question the thought but, for them, it puts into question a lifetime of holding on tightly to that thought.
#christianity #imported:pinboard #intellectualism #religion #to:fb
archive.org #24248

Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/space/an-astronaut-and-a-writer-at-the-movies.html
As we recall from bitter memory, the Hubble and the space station are in vastly different orbits. Getting from one to the other requires so much energy that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it. The telescope is 353 miles high, in an orbit that keeps it near the Equator; the space station is about 100 miles lower, in an orbit that takes it far north, over Russia. To have the movie astronauts Matt Kowalski (Mr. Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Ms. Bullock) zip over to the space station would be like having a pirate tossed overboard in the Caribbean swim to London.
#gravity #imported:pinboard #movies #science #space #to:fb
archive.org #24246