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Posts from September 2009

Last Drink Bird Head

Jeff and Ann VanderMeer have put together an anthology with a simple premise: ask a lot of talented writers to write the first thing that pops into their head when they hear the phrase “last drink bird head”. Anything goes. This has led, as you can imagine, to an explosive cacophony of awesomeness. It’s called [...]


Ancient History

From a Guardian story on the 25th anniversary of Elite:

Taken together, the operating system and BASIC gave you everything you needed to write and run your own little programs. But the computer contained no word processor, no bells and whistles, no array of applications waiting for you to play with them, no instant [...]