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Secret messages in game ROMs

Great read, and a gold star for mentioning Dani Bunten.

Message in a Binary Bottle | cabel.me

It’s 20 or 30 years ago. You’re working on a videogame. You don’t get any credit for your work, blogs don’t exist, there’s no internet and no fanboys. It’s just you, a crusty old terminal, and got a few spare bytes left in the ROM. What now?

> Type Secret Message

OK. You’ve hidden a secret message in the ROM, to be uncovered many, many years later, and posted on the incredible website, The Cutting Room Floor.

 

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ADD Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term

This lines up with Whitaker’s investigative reporting in Anatomy of an Epidemic.

Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term – NYTimes.com

THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they considered absolutely essential to their children’s functioning.

But are these drugs really helping children? Should we really keep expanding the number of prescriptions filled?

In 30 years there has been a twentyfold increase in the consumption of drugs for attention-deficit disorder.

As a psychologist who has been studying the development of troubled children for more than 40 years, I believe we should be asking why we rely so heavily on these drugs.

It reminds me of this comic. There’s a follow-up if it makes you too sad.

Calvin and Hobbes — Now with Ritalin!by JOEY DEVILLA on JANUARY 8, 2008
Calvin and Hobbes — Now with Ritalin!
by JOEY DEVILLA on JANUARY 8, 2008
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“Black Flag” to perform at Hevy Fest

Even more news about Black Flag.

“Black Flag” to perform at Hevy Fest

The organizers of Hevy Fest in the UK have announced that Black Flag will perform at this year’s festival. The band is to feature Black Flag members Greg Ginn and singer Ron Reyes. No word on who else will be in the lineup. The performance is being billed as the band’s “only UK show in 2013,” indicating that other shows with this lineup are in the works.

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voxel.js

Click through and test the demos. They run really fast on in Chrome.

voxel.js * blocks in yo browser

voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser.

It was written by @maxogden and @substack, two non-game developers that want to make voxel games easy, fun and modular. If you find bugs it is because we don’t really know what we are doing. The good news is that 100% of the code is on Github so we hope you will fork it.

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Chordify

Have you ever wanted to play Lysine by Freex? Chordify will tell you the chords. The results aren’t perfect, but they will do.

 

How to use Chordify | Blog | Chordify | Tune Into Chords

Chordify is a free online music service – made for and by music enthusiasts – that transforms music, from YouTube, SoundCloud or your private collection, into chords. Our service automatically recognises chords from the audio signal, and aligns them to the music in a simple and intuitive player. Chordify is a cutting edge service that helps both novice and trained musicians to play the music they want to play, making state-of-the-art music technology available to the public at large.