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In a time of legislative gridlock, the Stop Online Piracy Act looked like a rare bipartisan breakthrough. The bill, known as SOPA, promised a brave new Internet—one cleansed of “rogue websites” that hawk pirated songs and movies as well as counterfeit goods. For Congress, the legislation’s goals...

"How were these things done? Well, on PLATO, you could press SHIFT-space to move your cursor back one space -- and then if you typed another character, it would appear on top of the existing character. And if you wanted to get real fancy, you could use the MICRO and SUB and SUPER keys on a PLATO keyboard to move up and down one pixel or more -- in effect providing a HUGE array of possible emoticon characters. So if you typed "W" then SHIFT-space then "O" then SHIFT-space then "B", "T", "A", "X", all with SHIFT-spaces in between, all those characters would plot on top of each other, and the result would be the smiley as shown above in the "WOBTAX" example. "

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"There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks."

What scifi show hasn't FOX screwed with? "The FOX Network aired the episodes in a different order to best capitalize on potential ratings-winning episodes, thus causing some continuity errors. For instance, the timer is first set to count down not in the pilot episode, but in "Summer of Love" — since FOX aired "Fever" after the pilot episode, though, many viewers were left confused as to why the Sliders suddenly had to leave within a very specific period of time. Similarly, the cliffhanger at the end of "Summer of Love" leads directly into the opening of "Prince of Wails" — which FOX had actually aired a week earlier"

"0. There are no paradoxes.1. Traveling into the future is easy.2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible.3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space.4. Things that travel together, age together.5. Black holes are not time machines.6. If something happened, it happened.7. There is no meta-time.8. You can’t travel back to before the time machine was built.9. Unless you go to a parallel universe.10. And even then, your old universe is still there."

"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."

multi-player typing racing game.

"PRE-ORDER new GLOW-IN-THE-DARK variant! The next round of prints will be available on both American Apparel and Alstyle stock AND now all the robot eyes glow-in-the-dark (new pre-order stock only!). 51 celebrity robots pulled from popular culture references from literature, film, tv, cartoon, children’s literature, video games and even rock music."

"Let me say that again. It's fun to use the command line."

"Animated lego pieces putting together the Millenium Falcon."

"LOS ANGELES, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Lovelorn video gamers who are better with consoles than conversation, have a new venue—a restaurant where each table has touchscreens for ordering food and for playing a variety of social games."

"Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe..."

"Party like it's 2999 with the glowing display on the T-Qualizer that dynamically changes with any ambient sound or music."

"if one of us ever does manage to change the world, it'll start with a puzzled glance at a computer screen, or a raised eyebrow while looking at a piece of paper. Instead of getting noisier, everything will get a lot quieter."

"I discovered this evening that my underwear has been rotated for me for the last three years."

"You don't know old-school until you're playing a copy of Spacewar on a vintage PDP-1.. against the creator of Spacewar."

"UncycloMedia Commons has released this guide to installing additional storage on your iPod Nano brand device."

"I need to move my computer over to my desk to work. I'm starting to fear radiation poisoning at the dining room table this morning."

"Made from Super Duct Tape (specifically engineered so that your wallet won't lift, peel, or get sticky), these duct tape wallets are one part high fashion, one part weekend warrior, and another part sheer cool. "

"The Obey The Tube shirt subjugates all who observe it - making it a great Subjugation Day gift! Civilize the masses in a twenty yard radius wherever this shirt is worn."

"This tool will convert regular text to binary and vice-versa..."

"The Russell Executive Mesh Chair is the Aeron for people on a budget."

"It's the constant fear of becoming bored of complacent and the ever-present feeling that I need to learn as-much-as-possible that drives me."

"I am pleased to announce that one of my favorite ExtremeTech books to date, Geek My Ride is now available ... at most book sellers. "

"Later that night, we watched TV by sending it upstairs using the camera and one-way video chat (in iChat). Really."

"Can you generate some USE CASES that would justify the change?"

"My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up."

The Cherokee Nation now pwns Linux?

I want *this*.

"Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been talking to people with “nerdy” tattoos — computer logos, video game themes, science, math, and engineering imagery. Below you can read their stories in their own words..."