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Posted by Brian Forte Posted on 2011 05 01
Posted in distractions
Joanna Russ is dead, which is terrible and sad and depressing as hell. Her 1972 short-story 'When It Changed' blew my mind when I first read it in 1979 and still makes me re-cast my eye over so many things...
Posted by Brian Forte Posted on 2008 12 04
Posted in distractions
On the 9th December 2008, it will be 40 years since Doug Engelbart’s Mother of all Demos (as it’s come to be known, thanks to Steven Levy using the phrase to describe the event in his 1994 book Insanely Great:...
Posted by Brian Forte Posted on 2007 06 10
Posted in distractions
First up, just knowing there is an Octopus News Magazine makes my day. It only gets better to learn they have a wonderfully Cthulhu-esque logo which I can get on a t-shirt. As for the articles, I don't know I'll...