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The manual for Mental Blocks (see previous message) claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings I seem to remember having a lot of fun back in the day fiddling with the capacity of hard drives, first on the C64 and [...]

Sometimes you can identify trends in technology simply by looking around. And if it seems like every freshman on your campus owns a laptop and has a Facebook account, you might not be hallucinating—at least not at Amherst College, where 432 out of 438 freshmen had joined the “Amherst College Class of 2012” Facebook group [...]

References to information at Wikipedia have shown up in various inappropriate places, from homework assignments to college term papers. But there’s one place that it seems everyone can agree that it doesn’t belong: the US court system. The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, ruling in an immigration case, has agreed with the [...]