I came across this Commodore 64 floppy disk drive in its original box at the hackerspace. Remember the days when floppy drives were this big? I don’t… just a little too early for me.
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the trouble with pixels
The PC industry is presently in a period of major bungled transition and chaos related to high-DPI hardware being released before Microsoft and Windows applications can support it. By mistake, I bought a laptop with a beautiful 13″ 1920 x 1080 screen with…
US Space Shuttle cockpit
So many wonderful buttons!
when someone asks you if you’re a god…
Dialogue from Ghostbusters (1984): Gozer: Are you a god? Stantz: No. Gozer: Then… die! [Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off] Winston: Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say…
Mediterranean blockade
You can really see the impact of regional politics when comparing the sea ports on the Mediterranean Sea at Ashdod, Israel and Gaza, occupied territory. These ports are just a short distance from each other. You can see plenty of freight…