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  |   Raw posts and updates from our writers with info too timely or uncategorizable for print. What, we said something stupid? Chime in, buddy. Technology and Its DiscontentsThe Spotify EffectMusic checks in, but it doesn’t check outWho has made me a stranger to my iTunes music library? Spotify, it is you. Who has made it possible to summon full discographies of interrelated musical artists in a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon hopscotch that I Just Can’t Stop Doing? It’s you again, Spotify.
  Technology and Its DiscontentsGamer Christ at Easter TimeHe has infinite continuesEverybody likes a revisionist Jesus, tailored for the times. I know I do.  [click to enlarge] Technology and Its DiscontentsImages from the 1-bit eraWe got both kinds of colors here: black and whiteColor might be fine for the average video game, but for the truly great, it just gets in the way. Technology and Its DiscontentsKing of Demons 95Back in 1995 the launch of what was possibly the pinnacle of beige-PC lameness was occurring in parallel with the development of one of the most visually demented video games on the face of the earth. Which just goes to prove the maxim that computers can imprison us or they can set us free.  Technology and Its DiscontentsVideo games too awesome to be realExcept for oneEasy access to paint programs has unleashed a torrent of what-if 8-bit imaginary retro video game awesomeness where time-slipped console development meets films from the past, present and future. Personally, I’d like to see a Super Nintendo THX-1138—which would certainly be less ridiculous than the SNES Home Alone cartridge—but I guess I’ll have to do that one up myself. What I did find out was that there were these clever mock-ups, one of which is actually real. Which one?  Technology and Its DiscontentsMy terrifying nightmare about segmented file transfer on floppy disksLast night I had a dream that man in a mask like the one in Zardoz ordered me to retrieve the data from a mysterious computer kept deep in a lightless cavern. The computer is connected via RF modulator to a CRT television set tuned to channel 3. The hard drive, if you want to call it that, consists of two massive bays where removable cartridges about the size of a stack of copy paper are inserted. The keyboard is a loud, clacky one with mechanical switches. There is no mouse.  Technology and Its DiscontentsDistracted DevicesNo wonder you can’t concentrate on anythingHumans are intensely distracted by their screens. There can be no quibbling about this fact. Some of us hate that, some of us like it and some of us are too distracted to have noticed.  Awesome digitized image by “B and J Williams” Technology and Its DiscontentsStar Wars … Nothing but Staaaaar WarsUnlicensed video game goodness from the seventiesFor a behemoth media franchise that has spawned SO many video games—some good, many wretched—it may perhaps be hard to imagine a time when there were no Star Wars video games at all.  Technology and Its DiscontentsWhy you don’t know where anything isBecause they won’t let you find out, that’s whyComputer searching is so awesome now that you can’t find anything without it, even if you wanted to. Technology and Its DiscontentsMy old girlfriend ELIZA“We were discussing you—not me.”Joseph Weizenbaum’s problem child lives on in your iPhone. | Today's EventsThe Brew's Birthday Bash at The Brew Enjoy the signature brews, live music, live art demonstrations, games and a special beer release while raising money for the charity There's A Better Way to help local homeless families. SWAG • jazz, blues, Motown at Sheraton Uptown HotelCome Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are at KiMo TheatreMore Recommended Events ›› NEWSLETTERS Great Alibi stories, events and deals delivered to your inbox each week. No fooling!
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