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Chariots of Fire unquestionably has the best experimental synth score of any movie about church

Thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole: apparently the model for Carmen Sandiego was Marsha Bell, then director of marketing at Broderbund, now a realtor in Novato www.linkedin.com/in/marsha-be...

😧 no way. what a riot!! Thank you for looking!

Where in the world is this woman today? The original Carmen sandiego

😳Godspeed! You're going to be an absolute pro by the time it's done and working.

This is what every 1980s driving video game looks like

A bird's-eye panoramic map of San Francisco. - Neatline A fantastic 1976 axonometric view of San Francisco.

A lot of visual information here in this very cool representation of downtown SF (1976)
neatlinemaps.com/product/nl-0...

ROMchipJournal - Twitch Welcome to the Twitch channel for ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, a free, online scholarly journal for game history. ROMchip develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game history…

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📈🕹️👑 Raiford Guins discusses PONG’s long life, Atari’s rise, and how a simple game built markets, shaped categories, and still circulates today.

📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺

SF 1976 Snow Day: What did your neighborhood look like after the miracle snowfall? See it here The surprise snowstorm of 1976 may have been the last great miracle in San Francisco.

50 years ago today it snowed in San Francisco.

It hasn’t fallen in measurable levels since.

Thanks @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social for the reminder — I would have missed this anniversary!

Gift link ❄️🎁❄️

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Lmao as a native Bostonian, I tellya, nice one, buddy.

Wait is the kicker in this piece a… good will hunting pull?

🎶“There was Death Cab, and Neko, and music still on new CDs…“

Oh no oh no oh no

Beautiful and fun new paintings by artist friend Angela Windin feature animals floating through nebulae among other astronimical ideas. New show just up at City Art on Valencia in SF. www.angelawindin.com/gallery-1

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I was just looking at Scala on Amiga and look how beautiful!

(Source + kudos to Stone Tools: stonetools.ghost.io/scala-amiga)

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

"Mr. Havenner, what does it feel like when your most durable hundred-year legacy in the city you served is the derisive name for a project you thought sucked?"

Huh. Wikipedia's citation anyway doesn't name Havenner and is two years later. Maybe I'll update it. :)

Is this the specific origin of the Cow Palace name? SF Supervisor Franck Havenner refers to the project as a "palace for cows" as early as May of 1933, giving attribution and pretty early date to the phrase. Clip from SF Examiner, 5/26/1933. @peterhartlaub.bsky.social @davidgallagher.bsky.social

YouTube video by NesHacker Metroid's 8-Bit Gravity

Really delightful idea for a little video. What real planet might Metroid be set on?
youtu.be/ult5yLbDPnI?...

OXM 🫶

Final book jacket design for my upcoming history of Sphere computers. Looks fab. The book can as of now still be pre-ordered via the Kickstarter campaign's "late pledges." www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

Most people call it EGA and VGA but real Californians know to say “the” EGA and the VGA

A closeup of four pieces of popcorn. Each one is different from the other, the same way every snowflake is different. Inspiration strikes @dogebromomo. He’s disfuckingcovered the golden goose. A perpetual money machine. See, what you do is—he’s talking to his ball python Leo now—what you do, see, is fucking MINT a jpeg of every kernel in a bag of Orville Redenbacher. Each one is unique and each one gets its own NFT. Post those babies on Foundation or OpenSea and let the ethereum roll in, or whatever the fuck crypto does when it fucking pours, Leo, it’s going to FUCKING POUR, and you and I, Leo, we are going to be—and here @dogebromomo picks up Leo and kisses the python—we are going to be fucking kings of the fucking world!

POPCORNT.BMF

The neon one on the clock tower is metal

SCELBI’s Galaxy Game for the 8008/8080 SCELBI Computer Consulting, Inc., was (briefly and significantly) a 1970s microcomputer manufacturer but was mostly known in that era for its technical publications. The cover work for some of the ear...

Uploaded some SCELBI book covers to Fonts in Use with IDs of the excellent photolettering/dry-transfer styles on them fontsinuse.com/uses/74697/s...

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I know that site is just a basic bootstrap thing, there's something magical about it. It came to mind instantly when I saw your tweet. Small enough to be digestible in an hour, well set up for either research or just cool vibes . Partly bc subject itself is "small" but seems not only that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The whole (small) site, but this representative page of the "SCELBI Museum" -- useful, tightly curated, organized, loads fast, no BS. www.scelbi.com/documentation