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Mostly Atari-related projects, and other ramblings. Home of the Artie the Atari comic strip.

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Atari predicts... the future!

This is a pretty cool blog entry.   Alan Kay and Bob Stein were working for Atari back in '82, and were asked to come up with some concepts for an "Intelligent Encyclopedia". They hired recent-ex-Disney artist Glenn Keane to illustrate them, and what they came up with was, well, basically what we're doing with iPads, the internet, and all that sort of stuff now.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Jean “Moebius” Giraud

Jean "Moebius" Giraud passed away Saturday, at the age of 73.   Another phenomenally gifted artist, his work graced countless comic books, science fiction and fantasy art (most notably Heavy Metal magazine), and movies including Alien, The Abyss, The Fifth Element and of course - Tron.         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRvbPH_6lcQ   (I can't understand a word he's saying, but I love the fact he has a Snoopy poster on his wall. )
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Cheer up, sleepy Jean...

Davy Jones passed away at 66 today.   I'll admit it - I'm a Monkees fan. As a kid, I grew up watching syndicated reruns of the show in the mid-70's. It was silly, irreverent, had fun music, broke the fourth wall, and was an enjoyable guilty pleasure, just like other favorites of my youth - Batman and Gilligan's Island. Silliness for silliness' sake.   The music was a huge part of the show, although I didn't think of it as anything but part of the show at the time. I had a little tape recorde
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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The right way to do it

So... if you had a bunch of money, how cool would it be to gather up a bunch of the best programmers from the classic arcade era, and hire them to make new games?   You know... like Ed Rotberg (Battlezone), Owen Rubin (Major Havoc, Space Duel), Rich Adam (Gravitar, Missile Command), Ed Logg (Asteroids, Centipede), Tim Skelly (Rip-Off, Armor Attack, Reactor), Bruce Merrit (Black Widow) and Dennis Koble (Atlantis, Solar Storm)?   Well, some guy just did that. Seamus Blackley, one of the co-cre
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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300th Stupid Blog Entry!

Part 1 - Eh, close enough   Sharp-eyed viewers will no doubt notice that this isn't the 300th Stupid Blog Entry... it's the 301st 302nd 305th 307th 310th.   Yeah... I've procrastinated finishing this one a few times.   However, this entry is about the 300th Stupid Blog Entry, so technically, the title of this entry is correct.   Descriptively speaking.   Back in September, I was planning to write up some massive, over-long entry like I did for the 200th Stupid Blog Entry and 100th Stu
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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The wrong way to do it

Buried somewhere in this blog, I've been keeping a running list of apps I've gotten for my iPhone. (I suppose if tags were actually working in the blogs, I could tag the entry with something useful so people could actually find it. )   One app I won't be getting is the recently released Namco Arcade.   Even though it's free.   Of course, it's not really free. If you want to play the games, you have to pay for them.   Now, this should come as no surprise, since Atari does the same thing.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Predictions for 2012

Hey, it's that time of year again. We'll get this year out of the way right away, then move onto how I did last year.   Predictions for 2012: I predict I won't make any predictions for 2012. So, I'm already either 100% right, or 100% wrong, depending on whether or not you take that prediction into account as an actual prediction.   The reason I'm not making any predictions, is that with Steve Jobs gone from Apple... they've become all-too predictable. iPad 3? Yep. iPhone 5? Yep. Killi
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Good riddance to bad rubbish... Flash in the pan

Adobe finally concedes that Flash is rubbish. At least on mobile devices. And that HTML5 is the way to go.   Funny. Where have we heard that before?   I've long been using ClickToFlash (and now ClickToPlugIn) on my Mac. I can't wait for the day when Flash dies its death on the desktop, too.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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WRC - MIA?

The 2011 World Rally Championship season has kicked off, and yet there's zero TV coverage of it so far.   So where I'd normally use this as an opportunity to recap the highlights, instead I'm going to use it as an opportunity to just talk about car stuff in general.   Until HD Theater gets off their thumbs, that is.   Currently, the rumor I've been eagerly following is the joint Toyota/Subaru TC-86 concept sports car. Toyota design, Subaru power train. Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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May I suggest a new holiday?

How about, "Buyers' Remorse Day"?   This would follow Black Friday, where people would look back at a day wasted chasing bargains at stores, having spent more than they ever intended to (or having not found anything they wanted), and realize they could have just bought everything online instead.   To wit, the Playstation 3 Bundle.   Wal-Mart (plus Target, Sears and possibly others) is offering up a PS3 bundle. This includes a PS3, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One, and Little Big Planet 2, all f
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Siri-ous TV

Apple has been rumored to have been working on an Apple-branded TV for years. They've actually released several products along those lines, such as the Macintosh TV, the first Mac Mini-sized Apple TV, and the current super-tiny Apple TV (seriously, you have to see this thing in person to appreciate how small it is). None have really solved the "TV problem", however. All TV services and DVRs have some shortcomings, and some are downright annoying to use. While I generally like U-Verse, I'm beginn
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Good riddance to bad rubbish... Bonus Round

Citibank.   Need I say more?   Well, I'll say a little more.   Several weeks ago, I got a letter from them, saying that my (formerly free) checking would now be incurring a $15/month fee.   Unless I kept a balance of $6000 in the account.   Six-grand.   In a non-interest-earning account.   Ummm.... no.   So I planned to bail on Citibank, and instead get a checking account through my credit union, which not only doesn't charge fees, but also pays interest.   Then a little while
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Good riddance to bad rubbish... Platinum Edition

I've ranted about Sallie Mae before.   I'd even mentioned how I had come to personify the company as some crotchety, cantankerous, vindictive old geezer, sitting on a rocking chair (next to her sister Fannie and her inbred idiot cousin Freddie) on the porch of an old house packed to the rafters with cash stolen from bankrupt college students, taking pot-shots at passersby with a shotgun, screaming, "Git away from mah MONEY!" BLAM!!   Something pretty-much like this:     That's Freddie i
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Bye, Steve

By now, probably the whole planet knows that Steve Jobs passed away today, at the entirely-too-young age of 56.   For the man who brought Apple back from the brink to turn it into one of the most powerful companies in the world, there was no miraculous turnaround for himself.   Obituaries describing his life are everywhere. This one is as good as any. It will be interesting to read his biography, when it comes out later.   What made Steve Jobs interesting to me though, was that he made pro
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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George never did explain that

Disclaimer: No cartoon 2600s were harmed in the making of this episode. However, we did burn up a bunch of real ones just to see what it looked like.   98 < PreviousIndexNext >
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Alpo Cow Lips

"Weird Famine" Yankovic doesn't quite have the ring to it that "Weird Al" does, but with his latest album, the Alpocalypse is upon us:     Alpocalypse is Al's first album in five years (his longest break). He had quite the challenge in following up Straight Outta Lynwood, which was one of his strongest and most successful albums in his 30+ year career. (Yes... "Weird Al's" been around that long.)   There are no apocalyptic-themed parodies on the album. Rather, according to a recent interv
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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