Author: Jack Slater
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May 1st is The Real Labor Day
Alex Pareene explains the first of May: International Workers Day is as American a holiday as there is. It commemorates, in part, the Haymarket Riot, a bloody 1886 clash between striking workers and Chicago police that was among the most consequential battles in both American labor history and the international fight for the eight-hour workday.…
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Tim Angus’ Unique Electric Guitar
The first time I ever saw a 3D printer in-person was at a robotics conference for software developers in Florida. That thing printed out a tiny little model of an intricate water jug and I was in awe. Imagine the look on my face when I woke up this morning and saw that ioquake3 developer…
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Portable Frustration With Bennett Foddy
I’ve already written about how much I love Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, but I hadn’t written about the iOS version which has gotten much better over time and today there is an Android version on Google’s app store if you’d like to learn to master your frustration on a portable device. They’re both $5…
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Campo Santo Got Valvo’d
I love adventure games. Well, I love modern adventure games. They come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s a type that’s a sub-genre of the Walking Simulator style of adventure in which you get your narrative-focused Gone Home’s and your Tacoma’s and the occasional Firewatch. The news is that the developer of Firewatch, Campo…
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Today in Rube Goldberg Machines
A gif of this cake serving Rube Goldberg machine has been going around social media and that utterly fascinating gif didn’t even include all of the action for this awesome machine from ex-New Zealander and current New Yorker Joseph Herscher of the Joseph’s Machines project.