February 2011
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Forty Years Later: How 'Oregon Trail' Was Born →
theatlantic: longreads: For the next two weeks, Dillenberger and Heinemann spent each night wedged into a tiny computer office—a former janitor’s closet at Bryant Junior High School—tapping code into a teletype machine. The teletype was a screen-less, electromechanical typewriter connected via telephone to a mainframe computer that could issue prompts, receive commands, and run primitive...
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UNDERCITY by Andrew Wonder - a short film documenting the adventures of the filmmaker and one Steve Duncan, who goes on some pretty awesome/scary expeditions to check out the hidden wonders of New York City, including the old City Hall subway station and the top of the Williamsburg Bridge. This sounds amazing.  I wish I had the guts to go on these adventures in real life!
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Hipster Shore. It took me a long time to figure out who Snookie was, but this? This.
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“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m...”
– At McSweeney’s, Comic Sans fights back. (via theatlantic)
Jan 11th
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WSJ: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior →
My friend Erin just sent this to me, but I understand it’s been a pretty popular read this week. From the title of the article alone, I’d been expecting another one of those cute, harmless little caricatures of Chinese parents (see: “88 ways you know you’re Asian”).  I chuckled at a few parts and wondered if there would be some clever ending revealing that the...
Jan 11th
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The ballad of the Alpine Meadows Skibus
A tale in 140-character increments, because that’s the medium I had to work with at 5am this morning. Today’s morning drama: Paige had 3 pickup stops: yue, me, monica. CAR WOULDNT START at my house, and the ski bus waits for no one!! … So P (and my dad) wait for trip a; meanwhile with only 15 minutes left, we call mon to pack up her car in duboce and come get us! …We...
Jan 8th