scientificamerican.com
Previously, researchers had thought these tissue layers were a dense “wall” of collagen—a strong structural protein found in connective tissue. But the new finding reveals that, rather than a “wall,” this tissue is more like an “open, fluid-filled highway”.
gamedeveloper.com
Like Defender before it – which proved that the public was ready for more complex games – Robotron proved that the public was ready for the type of simultaneous control that is a hallmark of modern gaming, where controlling both movement and aiming or camera control have become requirements for effective play within today’s 3D games.
plough.com
Our orderly mastery of materials is powerful, but it’s secondary – McGilchrist believes we’ve spent centuries mistakenly trusting our engineered, manufactured, modern, manipulated existence as though we have the power to construct something fixed and predictable, all to the detriment of the inextricable relatedness of everything.
github.com
macOS utility to lock the keyboard for easy cleaning.
opb.org
Engelbart grew up on a small farm in Southeast Portland where his father operated a radio store.
He graduated from Franklin High School in 1942 and enrolled at Oregon State College, now called Oregon State University, to study electrical engineering.
When World War II interrupted his studies, he spent two years working as a Navy radio and radar technician in the Philippines.
In a 1986 oral history, Engelbart said the radar training was critical to his later work: “I knew about screens, and how you could use the electronics to shape symbols from any kind of information you had. If there was information that could otherwise go to a card punch or a computer printer, you could convert that to any kind of symbology you wanted on the screen. That just all came from the radar training.”
archive.org
Released in conjuction with the computer hacking movie “Sneakers” (1992), this floppy-based “computer press kit” contained many of the aspects of regular movie press kits, including cast bios, plots, and information on all aspects of production. It was intended for press, and as such is both “locked up” (via passwords) but also endeavored to help the same press get through the barriers as quickly as possible.
The balancing act between technical complexity and simplicity to ensure promotion is quite notable.
github.com
A standalone command-line version of Soulver (for macOS)
github.com
The Icon Programming Language
pyret.org
Pyret is a programming language designed to serve as an outstanding choice for programming education while exploring the confluence of scripting and functional programming. It’s under active design and development, and free to use or modify.
github.com
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