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Donna Summer ‘I Feel Love’ | Classic Tracks
... Here’s how: first, we need to record a reference pulse on track 16 of the tape, and from that we can then lock in the Moog so that the rest of the tracks are perfectly synchronised.’
history  music  nostalgia  engineering 
2 days ago by WIZARDISHUNGRY
5 Days a Stranger
5DAS is a medium-length free adventure game with a horror theme, made, as all my adventures are, with the miraculous AGS Engine. Since I hate it when people make promises and never deliver, I've gotten into the habit of only ever letting on that I'm making a game after I've finished it.
adventure  indiegames  adventuregames  videogames  games  game  entertainment  free  freeware  downloads  horror  history 
october 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
NAVA - Home
The North American Vexillological Association and the Chesapeake Bay Flag Association invite you to join us in the Washington, D.C..
collecting  art  design  history  world  flag  vexillology  associations  theory  political  media 
september 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Avant Garde Project - 20th Century Classical, Electroacoustic, Avant Garde Music Downloads
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
avantgarde  electroacoustic  mp3  mp3blog  database  archive  torrents  flac  download  music  vinyl  sound  free  history  media  electronic  classical  contemporary  culture  downloads  audio  art  avant  experimental 
august 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Last Gunslinger | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine
The F-15C is the only dedicated dogfighter left in the U.S. military fleet. Why isn't the Air Force replacing it?
aircraft  technology  history 
august 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Nate Harrison
Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological mediation within product innovation and creative expression. The dead-panned 'documentary' video attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a tool's research and development phase don't necessarily lead to increased expressivity or virtuosity during the tool's lifetime of actual use, unless the super-structure of its cultural context is dramtically reconsidered.
tb303  303  roland  audio  bass  electronic  electronics  video  techno  synth  download  instruments  history  hardware  culture  documentary  design  film  gadget 
may 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.
os  osx  mac  webdesign  windows  screenshots  reference  gallery  gui  hci  history  archive  apple  accessibility  computers  design  icons  images  inspiration  interface  ui  usability  web  user  software  technology  icon  graphics  computer 
may 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books
This is of course the plot, in a nutshell, of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and much of Lewis’s Space Trilogy too—which, for that matter, concludes with the forces of good being led not by a Christian but by the pre-Christian Merlin. Judaism is far more skittish about acknowledging the existence of powers acting apart from God, even in rebellion—which leaves a lot less room for magic.
jewish  fantasy  judaism  literature  books  religion  culture  article  history 
february 2010 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Metafont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While well-known font designers, such as Hermann Zapf, have collaborated with Knuth to create new fonts using Metafont, the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers. Knuth attributes this to the fact that "asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much".[5]
language  latex  metafont  typesetting  wiki  wikipedia  history  programming  knuth  typography  fonts  vector 
july 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
Amtrak is now scrambling to simply equip itself with Wi-Fi—a technology already available on the bare-bones Bolt bus.
rail  trains  amtrak  obama  infrastructure  policy  public  innovation  train  energy  transportation  history  america  usa  environment  future  government  economics 
june 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
innrevival - ImagiNation Revival 
The ImagiNation Revival is the first successful server emulator for the ImagiNation Network. Development of the emulator has progressed to the point where many of the previously available games are now playable including the MMORPG: Yserbius. This new service was opened to the public in March 2007. Unlike the early remake versions that tried to rebuild the network from scratch the Revival project uses DOSBox and the original client software to connect to a server which emulates the original.
music  web  history  internet  games  computer  social  gaming  mmorpg 
june 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Jumpcut: Minimalist Clipboard Buffering for OS X
Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.
osx  freeware  utility  free  history  clipboard  copy  app  desktop 
may 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion • The Register
Unfortunately, the Archive Team found that Yahoo apparently quietly purged a lot of Geocities "neighborhoods" (subdomains like http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/) completely, including WallStreet and NorthPole. Poor Santa probably never knew what hit him.
geocities  yahoo  archive  :(  permalink  news  articles  internet  history  web  2009 
may 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
MATRIXSYNTH: The BRONTOLOGIC
as presented around 1979/1980. Lambertz´ idea was to design a musical computer that automatically produced good music, without any faults that musicians would create. Later, Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke of Germany´s proto electro band Der Plan (The Plan) wanted another machine like that as he felt this was som
music  weird  history  theory 
april 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Coster-Mullen had agreed to drive us from Waukesha to Wendover, while I sat in the passenger seat of my rental car and asked questions. (I’m a lousy driver.) Research materials shared the back seat with a small cooler that plugged into the dashboard cigarette lighter and contained cheese, salami, and four twenty-ounce bottles of Diet Coke, which Coster-Mullen consumes at the rate of one per hour. When he finished a bottle, he tossed it onto the back seat. After two or three empties accumulated, he refilled them with soda from a two-litre mother-ship bottle that he kept in a shopping bag on the floor.
history  nuclear  bomb  diet_coke  coke 
january 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Secret Museum of Mankind
Advertised as "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs" and marketed mainly to overheated adolescents (see the 1942 Keen ad, left), it consists of nothing but photos and captions with no further exposition. This was not a book published to educate (despite appearing on some public library's shelves), but to titillate (literally)— it's emphasis was on the female form ("Female Beauty Round the World") and fashion, and it featured as many National-Geographic-style native breasts as possible. But anything lurid, weird, or just plain unusual is fair game. This was a book to gawk at by flashlight under the bedcovers.
mankind  reference  art  museum  ebooks  photography  culture  history  people  anthropology  documentary  strange  secret  world  science 
october 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
CANOE -- CNEWS: es - Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon
Carlson documented several cases in northern Alberta communities where people believing they were "turning Windigo" would go into convulsions, make terrifying animal sounds and beg their captors to kill them before they started eating people.
alberta  canada  windigo  cryptozoology  murder  death  history 
september 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Britons may be more vulnerable to Aids due to Roman invasion - Telegraph
They say a gene which helps make people less susceptible to HIV occurs in greater frequency in areas of Europe that the Roman Empire did not stretch to.
aids  hiv  rome  roman_empire  history  genetics  disease 
september 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Centenary of Dorando Pietri's feat in london 1908 - 2008
On 24 July 1908, in fact, Dorando Pietri won the Olympic Marathon in London, but was disqualified due to the help he received across the finishing line.
olympics  20C  italy  history 
august 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Toward a Type 1 civilization - Los Angeles Times
subtext of sociopolitical implications Kardashev scale; does capitalism require perpetual growth?
futurism  Kardashev  singularity  history  sustainability  theory  politics  free_trade  economics  science  technology 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Too Weird for The Wire - Kevin Carey
"How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds."
law  baltimore  crime  history  politics  conspiracy  legal 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Bactrian Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the keyholders (called "tawadars") could not be summoned because their names were purposefully unknown.
Afghanistan  gold  history  treasure 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Adwaita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – March 23, 2006) was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata.
anthropology  science  turtle  eternal_life  reptile  history 
june 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
pizzatool.gif 1152×900 pixels
I want to make a steampunk movie where all the computer guis look like motif
openlook  news  hyperlook  x11  unix  history  pizza  windowing  gui  screenshot 
june 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
19c  history  crime  law  reference  london  england  uk  sociology  prison  humor  punishment 
april 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Command key - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because any ADB keyboard could be used with the IIGS, all of Apple's ADB keyboards—even those intended for the Mac—also required the open-Apple, and it stuck for more than twenty years even when the Apple II series was long out of production.
mac  keyboard  hardware  history  design  apple  symbols  tutorials  unicode 
april 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0)
The image of HRC and Bald Watermelon Britney at the top of this "gonzo conspiracy blog" is soooo rad!
alternative  conspiracy  Politics  blog  news  Blogs  Occult  magick  scientology  rant  subgenius  weekly  weird  theory  strange  paranoia  interesting  culture  history  future  crowley  creepy  crazy  collage  chaos  art 
january 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Welcome to the Scanimate Site - history of computer animation - early analog computers -
analog computer system that was built in the late 60s & early 70s. Only eight machines were produced.
history  animation  netart  video  Graphics  hardware  tv  computers  70s  analog  trippy  nostalgia  inspiration 
january 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why do US pickets walk in circles?
"I believe that the reason that picketers walk either in a circle or patrol back and forth is so that they can permissibly walk in front of a gate or entrance of a picketed establishment without blocking or impeding ingress or egress, which is prohibited
articles  history  interesting  law  social  via:flashboy 
january 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Commodore 64 still loved after all these years - CNN.com
wtf, this was TOP STORY on Cnn.com; no mention of Pearl Harbor
computers  c64  cnn  retro  news  history 
december 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
E6B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"My eyes are dim I cannot see, I have not got my E-6B with me, over the Valley of the Ruhr".
history  flight  navigation  computer  slide_rule 
november 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Dungeons & Dragons
the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain "pro-social" morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant "pro-social" moral was as follows: The group is always right...the complainer is always wrong.
psychology  article  cartoon  show  cartoons  history  tv  1980S 
november 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
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