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I’m going to try and learn to play Super Mario Bros. on the piano! Look at this guy, for example, playing it blindfolded! I found the sheet music, so I better start practicing! 
Who invented the original emoticon, :-)? A quick Google search on “emoticon invention” revealed Smiley Lore, written by Scott E. Fahlman, the original inventor of the smiley.
On September 19, 1982, the idea was first suggested on an online bulletin board, or “bboard,” at Carnegie Mellon University. This original post was lost over the many following years.
Twenty years later, Mike Jones of Microsoft sponsored an “archeological dig,” to search through CMU’s old tape backups for the initial suggestion of the sequence :-). And guess what? They found it.
Well, if you haven’t heard, Apple is going to use Intel x86 chips in its future computers. They’re going to release a developer build of Mac OS X which works on off-the-shelf Intel PCs. It’s definitely going to spread all over the Internet, but according to this article, Apple may be planning this.
The Shape of Days: Mac OS X on Intel: Try before you buy?
Given Apple’s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple’s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ’05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation.
As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs.
Apple’s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that’s what they’re doing. It’s a try-before-you-buy deal.
Yes…I want a copy!
What would you if you saw a pair of Mario question blocks hanging from a tree? Take it down of course, and open it up to find huge pixellated cardboard cutouts of 1-up mushrooms, coins, and fire flowers!
This site shows you how to make these awesome blocks. Funny, huh?