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American sf convention costumers of the 1980s Reboot Page: "unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems" Air France's 1947 sleeper service The Economist publishes pathetic advertorial for the City, London's financial district Critics rave for Windows Phone -- but who's buying? 3D printed TARDIS gingerbread cookies US Army game gear Lamar Smith Can't Hear You American sf convention costumers of the 1980s
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 07:06 pm Here's a great gallery of Dik Daniels's photos of science fiction costumers from the conventions of the 1980s, when I was a teenaged con-goer. If only I'd had a little more forward planning nous, I'd have been one of those costumed folken! Dik Daniels photos: 1980 Westercon (Thanks, Jukevox!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 06:02 pm The Reboot Page features the reboot dialogs, shutdown sequences, and even the magical floppy-disc grinding SFX from a variety of vintage OSes. Rebooting the Amiga was just like being there. I got shivers. The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 04:57 pm There's loads to love about this 1947 ad for Air France's sleeper service -- just look at that cutaway diagram! -- but the chart-topping eye-grabber is that awesome sleeper-service bed. Man, if Air France was still flying planes with that interior, I'd never fly anything else. Loads more mouth-watering vintage aviation luxury ads here. CONTEST ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 03:53 pm The cover story on this week's The Economist is Save the City, a love-note to London's legendarily corrupt, self-governing financial district, ground zero of the global financial collapse, and home to some of the world's top-compensated crooks, whose pay is totally disconnected from their performance. Naked Capitalism rounds up a ton of online reaction to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 08, 2012 03:15 pm Nick Wingfield, writing at The New York Times, looks into why Microsoft's excellent Windows Phone 7 mobile OS failed to take off. To the technorati, as he puts it, the reasons are obvious: Microsoft is late, everyone has an iPhone or Android already, the handsets are plastic tat, and the Windows branding is a counterproductive ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 02:47 pm Steve D's friend Maggie 3D-printed TARDIS cookie-cutters and he used them to make scrumptious gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread TARDIS Cookies (Thanks, mistercliff!)
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 08, 2012 02:14 pm CTA Digital is producing a United States Army-branded line of video game peripherals, including rifles, a backpack, and headsets. Start the training early! According to The Verge though, "It's not quite as tawdry an affair as it may first seem — all licensing revenues from the products will go to US Army Morale, Welfare and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 01:43 pm Here's ChadRocco's Lamar Smith anti-election poster, in honor of the congressman's advocacy for the net-killing Stop Online Piracy Act and his blithe dismissal of the bill's critics. Meet Lamar Smith, representative from Texas, and Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary. As Chairman he can kill any bill he doesn't like by denying it ...
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