“Here we are playing ping pong when we ought to be working.”

The First Computer Game

In 1969, While Brian Adams was playing his “first real six-string” until his fingers bled the first computer game was also getting developed by Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison. These two skinny men would have had know idea just how much they would contribute to childhood obesity. Still – we owe them. Watch the YouTube video.

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In ThreeThousand Issue 101 Tait Ischia wrote about ‘We Love Magazines’, the fantastic publication created in association with the magazine symposium Colophon 2007 that was held in Luxembourg in March. If you want some more then Pingmag have recently uploaded an interview with the publications art-director Jeremy Leslie from John Brown and magCulture.com, and Creative Review have also published Jeremy’s top picks from the conference in their latest issue and put the article on their blog as well. So many links, so little time.

We just got sent this for our Poster Wall but couldn’t wait to post it. An event this serious needs serious warning.