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Bill Gates' Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (OSNews)
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:51:34 GMT Pagetable.com has an interesting article on a Microsoft easter egg. "If you type 'WAIT6502,1' into a Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string 'MICROSOFT!' at the top left corner of the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg 'after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel', 'just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code ...

History gets a face-lift in Ecuador's Quito (Detroit Free Press)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:40:28 GMT An evening stroll into Quito eight years ago was a stroll into a world of crime, ghettos and dilapidated buildings. But it's amazing what $200 million and a vision to attract tourists can do for a capital city.

The Great Depression: Memories of the worst of times (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:40:14 GMT The Great Depression shaped those who lived through it.

The Great Depression: Memories of the worst of times (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:35:06 GMT By DAVID CASSTEVENS Charles Pokluda wasn’t well-educated and didn’t own a car, but he held a job at a packing plant on Fort Worth’s north side. And if a member of his family had a need — really needed something — he found a way to provide. It was the 1930s and the immigrant from Moravia didn’t have a bank account. He trusted his assets to a balding, elegant gentleman who wore a full beard and a ...

Return to glory (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:14:10 GMT QUITO, Ecuador – As the sun descends, street lamps take over, illuminating grandiose colonial plazas, antiquated historic buildings and romantic balconies that line the major streets of capital city Quito's “Centro Historico” district in Ecuador.

Op/Ed - Forging Iron Man's Movie Future (Newsarama.com via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:47:04 GMT With the release of Iron Man on DVD and Blu-ray earlier this week, Marvel Studios held a couple of subtle press events to steer the online conversation back to their surprise box office hit of the summer.

Angels Without Wings (Washington City Paper)
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:12:00 GMT The D.C. Guardian Angels aspire to fight crime like comic-book superheroes. But are they more comic than hero?

Superhero treatment (The Wichita Eagle)
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:07:01 GMT Before Batman and the Joker came along, "Iron Man" stood as this summer's big comic book movie success story. Landing in theaters in early May, it emerged as the first mega-blockbuster of the season, earning more than $318 million in North America and immediately prompting the elated heads of Marvel Studios to sign off on a sequel. Released Tuesday on DVD, "Iron Man" is practically guaranteed ...

Peggy Noonan (Time Magazine)
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:40:58 GMT TIME talks to the pundit about the presidential election, Sarah Palin and her new book, Patriotic Grace

Deception, Iron Man among DVD reviews (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:28:09 GMT By Matt Brunson DECEPTION (2008). It's hard to believe a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, two impossibly charismatic actors, could be so dull, but the evidence is right here. McGregor stars as Jonathan McQuarry, a meek accountant who has no fun until a lawyer named Wyatt Bose (Jackman) swoops down like a slumming deus ex machina and introduces his new pal to the pleasures of pot, ...

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