prosthetic knowledge
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Prosthetic Knowledge is 3 years old today
… man that’s gone quick …
Thanks to everyone who follows everything here, either on Tumblr or RSS or whatever system you use, I’m glad this little ‘thing’ I run here is appreciated by many, and hope to bring as much interesting stuff as I can.
PK
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C64 YourSelf
Happy Birthday, the Commodore 64!
I’ve posted about this before, but, I think it is worth sharing again to celebrate one of the most important home computers ever …
An online browser-based image converter than turns a photo into Commodore 64-style graphics.
Very easy to use, just drag-and-drop an photo (png or jpg, 2mb max) into the web page and it will convert it - see the top image, the animated gif, for a demonstration (you may need to click on it to see it).
Many thanks to the volunteers above for sending a portrait of themselves: paris87, daph-knee, everybodykiller, noo-oods, migmuffins, kevinhale, veryvaluable, zensaint and chrisdejong
You can try this out for yourself here
Related: Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today’s kids make of it? via BBC News
Prosthetic Knowledge Commodore 64 tagged archive here and here -
It’s my birthday today :)
Shame it’s on a Monday and the weather is terrible here in the UK - wondering if I should go see Prometheus later?
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Happy 30th Birthday To the ZX Spectrum
Both BBC Technology and Google celebrate the pioneering computer:
The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 - at the time the world’s best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour “high resolution” graphics and sound.
It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with which hundreds of thousands of users were already familiar.
The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model.
That allowed adverts at the time to boast: “Less than half the price of its nearest competitor- and more powerful”.
Sir Clive believed hitting the low price points was crucial.
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DAVID BOWIE MIX by DJ Toneman (48:42)
Nearly 50 minutes of classic David Bowie tracks, who is 65 today.
No tracklist, but you should be able to recognize all the music, starting with ‘Let’s Dance’, following with ‘Changes’ (which, believe it or not, is 40 years old …)
Links for download can be found at Mixcrate here
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Happy Birthday Bill Hicks
The comedian would have been 50 today.
If you are in the US, you can watch a very good documentary on Hulu about him here
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Prosthetic Knowledge is 2 years old today
Many thanks to everyone who appreciates this blog, as it makes running it all worthwhile :)
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Happy Birthday Marshall McLuhan
Would have been 100 today. There should have been a Google Doodle for this :(
McLuhan at 100 via The Technium
Why McLuhan’s chilling vision still matters today by Douglas Coupland for The Guardian
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Its my birthday today, and I was treated with this portrait of me inside a card, drawn by my brother.
No, he isn’t a kid, he is 26!
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tronuniverse: Happy 61st Birthday, Jeff Bridges!
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Happy 1 year tumblr bday!
FUCK YEAH!!!! This is MUCH BETTER!!!! My pupils dilate with happiness and JOY!!!!
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The inventor of the ZX Spectrum (and other tools) is 70 today. Happy Birthday!
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Pac-Man At 30 - An interview at The Awl
An interview:
dotmuncher80: Have you seen me LATELY? The thing you never think about with aging until it’s too late is how all that muscle turns to flab. I’m a fucking OVAL these days.
BALK: But you get plenty of exercise.
dotmuncher80: I’ll let you in on a little secret: None of us move as quick as we used to. The other day Blinky had me stopped in an alley in the upper left and I was like, “Fuck, this is it,” and I hear the dude WHEEZING. I was like, “You wanna sit this one out?” and he goes, “Dude, you don’t even know.” We are all running out of energy.
BALK: The power pellets don’t help?
dotmuncher80: You mean the speed?
BALK: I thought they were just “power pellets.”
dotmuncher80: Dude, they’re speed. I am a 30-year-old SPEED ADDICT. Real accomplishment there. What a wonderful life I’ve made for myself. -
Happy Birthday Qia!
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