“…at MIT circa 1961 there’s a group of hard core computer nerds calling themselves the tech model railroad club: wayne witanen and j. martin graetz, along with 25 year-old steve russell, they develop the idea to pit two spaceships with limited fuel supplies against each other in a missle duel. the program becomes ’spacewar !,’ the world’s first fully interactive videogame, with russell as main programmer (1962)…”
“The bs.tv peace project jury review has completed. Although the jurors were split on their choice of honorable mentions, they were almost unanimous in the selection of first, second and third favorite entries.”
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“The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill recently that would redesign the state flag. In hopes of ending a decade-long controversy, the new scheme would eliminate the famously divisive Confederate battle flag imagery from the state flag for the first time since the mid-1950s. In its place, Georgia will return to a design based on the original Confederate national flag — the famous ‘Stars and Bars’ — that featured a blue field with three stripes of red and white. On the middle white stripe, the words ‘In God We Trust’ will be written.”
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“Each week Photo Friday posts a photo assignment. Your mission is the creative interpretation of the week’s theme. When you’re done, post the picture you took to your website and submit your link to Photo Friday. Photo Friday is about challenging our participants to be original and creative within the constraints of the week’s theme. It’s not a competition. Anyone with a camera and a place on the internet to post pictures can participate.”
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“The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill recently that would redesign the state flag. In hopes of ending a decade-long controversy, the new scheme would eliminate the famously divisive Confederate battle flag imagery from the state flag for the first time since the mid-1950s. In its place, Georgia will return to a design based on the original Confederate national flag — the famous ‘Stars and Bars’ — that featured a blue field with three stripes of red and white. On the middle white stripe, the words ‘In God We Trust’ will be written.”
“The bs.tv peace project jury review has completed. Although the jurors were split on their choice of honorable mentions, they were almost unanimous in the selection of first, second and third favorite entries.”
“On April 22, 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a piece of computer code designed to get information from various public networks. Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life.”
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