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The Escapades of Percival ‘Pac’ Man, Esq.

source-code for classic arcade (and console) games. Along with chit-chat.

The Heathkit Virtual Museum (review’d).

My sister likes to live simply, but sometimes she still msses the forest for the trees. “Although it enters from the workshop, there is no electricity in the workshop itself. IE, it couldn’t actually function as a workshop, despite it’s name.”

Her contrarian Brother would like to point out that there are plenty of non-electrically-powered hand-tools that still work in this day and age. First and foremost is the hand-saw. But a rotary hand-crank drill is not hard to find nor use.

And if you’re really hard-core, you can do it the opposite way — turn your power tools into hand-cranked generators!

It’s 1975, and IBM wants to show you the future. A slideshow of images. That’s a real slideshow, by the way, of real slides. No powerpoint, no laptops, no digital projects. A carousel.

Click. Click. Click

Scott Beale takes us through the Consumer Reports test-photo archives.

A gallery of photos from the late, lamented 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - The Ride

I got to ride on this… ride in 1987. It was beginning to be dilapidated. The Carousel of Progress was still around at that point, too….

Retrobrick sells vintage and rare mobile phones.

That is to say, out-of-date cell-phones. Which in this day and age usually means the day-before-yesterday. But a lot of them are analogue beasts, and many of them could be used to club a loudly talking moron to civility.

Via Le Boinge

Perhaps you have been unfortunate enough to see the new, micro-miniaturized version of Death Race a micro-miniaturized film (a “remake” of the 1975 version of Death Race 2000), wherein all salient characters plot devices, twists, denouements, etc. are reveal’d in the space of 2 and one-half minutes.

While the original movie seems to have spawned an early video-game adaptation, the new movie script seems to have been drawn from the game.

Sadly, the remake of the video game will probably inspire yet another sequel.

THIS IS SO WRONG.

Shredding an Asteroids cabinet in microseconds.