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Coffee ad from the 1650s USB indicator light can be used to alert you to almost any online event Fantagraphics will publish comics in digital format Gweekly goodness: Jonny Quest (1964) Ready Player One and The Freedom Maze win the Prometheus Award for best novel Coffee ad from the 1650s
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 15, 2012 04:50 am This handbill -- which can be seen in the British Museum -- dates back to the 1650s, and was produced by the first coffee shop in London, in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill. It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 14, 2012 07:06 pm Mike Kuniavsky of the electronic projects studio ThingM says: When we designed the BlinkM we took the old school Unix philosophy of making it simple and focused, a useful component in a larger system of interlocking pieces. blink(1) is our idea of what that same philosophy would be like, when mapped to a consumer electronics ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 14, 2012 06:34 pm Good news: Fantagraphics, the world's greatest comic book publisher, is going to start selling digital comic books. Fantagraphics Books and comiXology have immediately made available the first four issues of the Hernandez Brothers’ phenomenal Love and Rockets: New Stories. Groth also announced that following Comic-Con, comiXology will debut Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 on ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 14, 2012 06:21 pm mtdna says: I really enjoy Gweek, especially your recommendations section. I’d like to offer a recommendation of my own, the Jonny Quest TV show. Jonny Quest was a half-hour prime time cartoon that came out in the early ‘60s, produced by Hanna-Barbera. Unfortunately, like so many great shows, it ran for just one season, but ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 14, 2012 04:21 pm Congratulations to Ernie Cline for winning the 2012 Prometheus Award for Best Novel! His book, Ready Player One, shared the prize with The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman. Both Cline and Sherman will receive one-ounce gold coins (what else would you expect from the Libertarian Futurist Society?). Delia Sherman's young-adult fantasy novel focuses on an ...
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