A few weeks ago, an event occurred that added another layer of drama to one of the biggest controversies in video gaming history - namely, who is the King of Kong. Donkey Kong, that is.
If you've never seen "The King of Kong", a documentary about the Donkey Kong controversy, you won't be aware of the fuzzy favoritism of the 'official' record keepers for retro video game scores, Twin Galaxies, who happen to be close friends and business associates of the record holder since the early 1980s, Billy Mitchell.
One thing I see a lot of, given the kind of community we are and so the kinds of people I read to see what's happening in the rest of the world, is how things have to
change. I wrote a piece earlier on
Open science and the march of history where I discuss the efforts of companies like Mendeley to shift the thinking of researchers toward open access and open science.
Jason Hoyt, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of R&D at Mendeley, and
asks researchers which side they want to be on in the march of history - legacy toll access to results or open access of both science and publication.
Junk food will make your waistline bigger, which is bad for you, and candy is no exception. But candy that makes your
intelligence bigger? Garth Sundem's
Brain Candy is here to satisfy your intellectual sweet tooth.
Should you happen to be in Washington, D.C. in October and at House of Sweden, the Swedish Embassy, you will get a chance to see a fireball red colored car that delighted Europeans who like tiny red cars earlier this year.
It's called the Baldos II and it is a hybrid auto built by engineering students at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. So what?
The fuel tests show it can run 152.2 kilometers on a liter of fuel, whatever that means - in Sweden, they use some primitive system invented during the French Revolution to stick it to the English, so I am not certain but that sounds like 357 MPG. Or approximately 12X my tiny convertible's mileage!
It's been a good decade for "The Wizard of Oz" - much better than the Oz books merit but in that one story there is the kernel of something terrific that has resonated with people for decades. There was a time when it was less cool - anyone watching "The Wiz" had to wonder what they were thinking but re-tellings of the story in more recent years have been terrific.
"Wicked", for example, tells the story of the Wicked Witch and she ends up being a lot more sympathetic. The core storyline of "The Wizard of Oz" pops in and out but it is her story - and the musical is terrific.
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