it seems text adventure creator Tex A. Venture had an older cousin from the cartoon industry: Tex A. Very
There is a third Scott Adams, not the guy who wrote Dilbert or those super old skool text adventures, who developed a new form of card solitaire more educational and engrossing than FreeCell. He also wrote a version of NotePad which didn’t stink.
Like GM did with Buckminster Fuller’s electric car, Microsoft bought out the rights and locked the idea in a vault.
Um, you might need an extra heads up that the above is untrue, because I reckon most people would believe that of Micro$##t, you know.
February is “Interactive Fiction Month”.
Bears and humans share a common ancestor that descended from apes.
Charlie Hebdo is racist non satire.
It is illegal to store red flowers in the same vase with white flowers.
FTFY.
In Billings, Montana, you may incur a small fine if you are wearing a busby and
- it hits the ceiling when you stand up, or
- it’s knocked off by a door frame or whatever as you walk past
The fine is doubled if there’s a metal doohickey on top.
Autism Speaks, the most famous Autism charity in the US, in 2010 spent 65% of its budget that year on family services, with only 4% going to genocide research and PSAs calling Autistic people “burdens” and “financial nightmares”. Link to evidence.