The
Valve Employee Handbook [PDF]. An oral history of computer gaming, with
Sid Meier (
Civillisation I - V,
Pirates!,
Railroad Tycoon) and
Ralph Baer (
Pong, the Simon platform), from Vice TV's
Motherboard. Also:
interviews with classic computer game programmers:
Eugene Jarvis (
Robotron: 2084,
Defender),
Jeff Minter (
Gridrunner,
Revenge Of The Mutant Camels,
Gridrunner,
Llamatron) and many more, together with the
Giant List of Classic Game Programmers.
(Previously, a decade ago).
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Apr 21, 2012 -
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Earth in perspective:
- Stratocam takes the most beautiful landscape satellite photographs from Google Maps, as voted on by visitors, and switches them every few seconds, with a fullscreen mode.
- ChronoZoom is an interactive, zoomable HTML5 timeline of the entire history of the universe, from the Big Bang to Homo Sapiens, with embedded video and lectures.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Mar 17, 2012 -
10 comments
Over 143 episodes of audio, Mike Duncan has covered the founding of Rome through the Crisis of the Third Century in his
History of Rome podcast [
previously], having now reached the last pagan Emperor,
Julian The Apostate. Enlivened by drawing on comparisons to popular culture, from
The Empire Strikes Back (when Hannibal makes his appearance) to
The Godfather (as a metaphor for Rome's social client system), Mr Duncan's work makes for fun, informative 25-minute sessions with the greatest empire of the ancient western world. If you're interested in more, the podcasts could be handily supplemented with...
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Jul 10, 2011 -
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Hop in the
Video Time Machine and scroll to any year: from
1860 (the first recorded sound) to the
present day to experience video and audio from that time period: most of it iconic, some forgotten, and others entirely random. Results can be filtered for music, sports, movies, current events and more.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Jul 5, 2011 -
8 comments
Hypercities, currently in beta, is a
collaborative effort to enable users to travel forward and backward in time within major cities of the world, watching changes take place over both the short (political protests in Tehran) and long (history of the city of Rome) term. Locative technologies are pushing the same ability into smartphones:
Walking Through Time (Android, iPhone) allows the user to overlay their current location with a map of the past.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Sep 7, 2010 -
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