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For those who don’t know, Game On is an exhibition in the Barbican in London covering the first 40 years of the computer gaming industry. I found it a little disappointing, but only because the field is so large that doubtless everyone has their own ideas of how such an exhibition should be run and what its emphasis should be.
This one had almost nothing about multiplayer or strategic games, which are what I play, tending instead to concentrate on consoles (which, admittedly, probably are the most widespread games). I wanted the opportunity to actually play SpaceWar on the PDP-1 they had there, or at least to see it running, but of course the machinery was too old. An early console that played a closely-related game had to substitute.
I did run into a very well informed exhibition guide, however, who was able to give some interesting insight into why the exhibition was done as it was and knew more of the early history than made it into the gallery itself.
There was not very much in the way of detailed commentary on the history or socio-economic context to the games on display – this was because the space was an art gallery not a museum space. I leave you with some things I learned about pong there:
- When Pong was produced it cost $1000 for each cabinet… but could take in $300-400 a day.
- 10,000 pong cabinets were made.
- The main maintenance problem was that the coin tray jammed when it got full
- It was based on Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey (the first games console).
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Spiked Online, the web descendant of Living Marxism magazine (which didn’t have a great deal to do with Marxism, to be honest, when it was around) publishes some interesting counter-intuitive UK political and health stuff. I just came across this interesting article which points out that,
- “Britain’s HIV/AIDS epidemic remains highly concentrated in London”
- “In the early 1990s, new cases passed 1000 a year, to reach a peak of 1853 in 1994; in 2001 some 558 new cases were recorded.”
- “The total of deaths from AIDS follows a similar course, reaching a peak of 1531 in 1994 and declining to 221 in 2001.”
and most interestingly,
“The big untold story of AIDS in Britain is that the epidemic explosion among heterosexuals that was anticipated in the 1980s has never happened… If we look, for example, at the figures for heterosexually acquired HIV infection in 2001, we find a total of 2226. This has been widely quoted to illustrate the rising tide of heterosexual transmission at a time when spread among gay men is declining…
How many people became HIV positive as a result of heterosexual contact with a partner who became infected in Europe? This figure – the key statistic of the indigenous heterosexual epidemic – is 52 (2.3 percent of the total). It is noteworthy that this number has remained remarkably steady over the past decade.”
That isn’t to say, of course, that the authorities were necessarily wrong to emphasise the risks of unprotected sex to everyone – after all, there are lots of other STDs that need to be curbed, the warnings may have incidentally prevented un-wanted pregnancies and, of course, without the warnings an epidemic just might have occurred. But it is nonethless interesting to see just how far we are in the UK from a real heterosexual AIDS threat.
Last month I sang the praises of tinyurl.com – now I read of a challenger, snipurl (which also takes a long URL and makes it shorter, making it easier to remember and share). This site has all manner of features – you can give a url an easy-to-remember name as you shorten it, you can track how many times it has been accessed, you can even give a URL a password. And it is still as short and convenient as tinyurl was…
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The UK government has just launched a green paper (a policy discussion document) on the UK government’s commitment to e-democracy. According to VoxPolitics – an e-democracy campaign group – this was “the worlds first offical eDemocracy policy” (actually except for Finland’s). They say the initiative appears to be more about adding Internet elements to the existing process instead of changing the process in response to new possibilities. If this is so, then it is an opportunity missed.
It takes a long time to change systems as large and complex as central government, so the sooner it is recognised change is necessary, the sooner the changes can begin. Alas, if you look at the tiny amount of time spent discussing Internet issues at the last election you can see why there is apparently no great urgency.gay a watch moviewhite movie chicks themovies sex zooamatuer movieanimal movie housebj moviecdgirls moviecheyenne movies silvercurvy moviesfree movies daily pornkobe tai free moviesmovies privatetwink moviesmovies free bbwdaily sex movies freebang movies bus freeamature moviesmovies free bestiality Map9353 last words mp3 famous42 accurian 198 mp3mp3 tp 3gpmya mp3 01 search mp3 danceabiyoyo mp3 song1 mp3 gbmp3 clips acdcencode mp3 audition batch adobe Map
Janis Ian has written a lengthy but interesting defence of MP3 sharing (saying, amongst other things, it helps smaller artists get exposure) and attack on the music industry.
It’s true that the music industry does not seem interested in using the Internet effectively as a promotional tool or to cut out the cost of distribution. But it is also true that 1) it is hard for the industry to figure out how to “cut the cake” of earnings in this new business environment, so “official” music sharing software tends to be experimental and offer only fragmentary access. And unfortunately 2) a widespread and well-marketed move to paid-for music downloading even at low cost might not stand much chance of success if a parallel system of easy to use totally free music download software exists alongside it. Some say that this would not be a problem, but if I was a music executive I would not be much interested in betting my company on it!
(Thanks to Harald for the link)
The good news is that a company plans to offer a set top box by early next year that will bring consumers all 24 free to air digital TV channels in the UK for just £30. The bad news is that the company will be subsidising this box because it expects to get large sums from people gambling on sporting events. Just what the UK needs – more gambling…
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The story of Bangladesh’s poisoned wells is a long sad one, but it looks as if at last there may be a happy ending. Aid agencies found that Bangladeshis didn’t have easy access to clean drinking water, so they helped them to drill wells. Unfortunately, they later found that many of these wells were polluted by arsenic and slowly poisoned the people drinking from them. A variety of alternatives have been sought, but at last I read that a Bangladeshi professor has invented a simple, inexpensive (£3/$5) water filter that should extract arsenic, lead and iron from drinking water. The UN is organizing a campaign to put the filter in all of the wells in the country.
The New York Times points out not so much that the emperor has no clothes but that nobody seems to care any more whether he has clothes or not. Even in New York his films are not popular and people aren’t even coming to see his recent lawsuit with a former producer over his earnings.
I suppose I will always be a Woody Allen fan (cruelly one lawyer watching his trial says “His sense of humor is sort of frozen in the 70’s. He appeals to an older crowd.”)
Nonetheless I just discovered to my horror that I have missed his last seven films.
My wife has been complaining about the weather in the London (not that the weather in Paris is any better). I have been feebly alternating between “it isn’t that bad” and “it’s not usually this bad”. Well, it seems that I was right – it has been even worse than usual… (thanks to pop-up toaster for the link).canada alberta personal loanslawsuit loan accidentrate mortgage loan adjustable minnesota homeaccount loan payday fast savingsreal estate loans commercial 97 coloradoloan guaranteed 15000 personalloan texas agriculturalrapid refund loan 2nd ononline loan $5000month auto 84 loan rates
