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Viva 1984: Two floppies and a Hitchhiker’s Guide

March 8th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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It's been 25 years since I acquired my 1st generation IBM PC, with dual floppies, no hard drive + slime green monitor. Soon after, I bought my first "video game" - a text only InfoCom title based on Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The user navigated through the game clumsily ...

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Of Censorship, The Pogues, and Christmas in the NYPD drunk tank…

December 25th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments

20 years ago, Irish band The Pogues released the song Fairytale in New York. It has since become the UK's #1 favourite Christmas song. This is a bit odd because the song is a duet about a couple of bums locked up in a NY drunk tank. Gotta hand it to the Brits though ...

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