When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow. It's a tale of great mystery: How Disney came to Orlando - OrlandoSentinel.com. September 26, 2010|By Joy Wallace Dickinson, Florida Flashback Intrigue.
Master spies. Secret meetings. They seem like unlikely ingredients for the beginnings of "the happiest place on Earth," but the story of how Walt Disney World came to Florida has all of them. Author Chad Emerson will talk this week at the University of Central Florida about the saga that brought Disney World to Florida — including the amazing acquisition, piece by piece, of a 43-square-mile parcel twice the size of Manhattan. Emerson is a law professor at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., where his areas of expertise include law concerning land planning, intellectual property and amusement parks. 'All anyone in town was talking about' It's been 45 years since the Sentinel reported on its front page that a mystery buyer represented by Miami attorney Paul Helliwell had acquired about 9,700 acres from Bronson Inc. in Osceola County.
Who was buying the land? HORRIBLE THINGS FROM WARDS & SEARS 1979/1980. I'm never going to forgive the 1970s for making me live a fully-cognizant life through them.
What a lousy-looking and horrible-sounding decade. If you weren't around then, let me give you a little taste of what your average American was buying at the end of the decade via my old Montgomery Wards and Sears catalogs. If you were there, sit here and cry with me. Oy. Of course, the main color schemes of the '70s were rotted orange, avocado green, harvest gold, crap brown, and deadly-dull beige. You have your choices in decorating. "Shag carpeting 'n the look of stained glass... " Or the whole pee/poop colors thing, as you Calgon-take-me-away in the bathtub thinking, apparently, about toilet seats. In the bedroom, an "authentic" British Military theme, which seems to include a furry animal print bedspread, or go full-on GROOVY with your plush bed with a STEREO 8-TRACK PLAYER BUILT IN!!! You can't forget the wall decor. "Ring Ring!
This makes me want to throw up. Zheng Lab - Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody) Chelsea Peretti on Myspace Comedy - Comic Clips, Funny Videos & Jokes. What's the Best Way. The Onion - America's Finest News Source. Human Jumbotron is Today's BIG Thing in Sports - OCT 21, 2010. The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection. Red Hour Films. The Monolith and the Message. Good parables explain themselves.
After you have read the story of Lazarus in the Bible, you don't need anyone to explain it to you. The same is true, I believe, of Stanley Kubrick's parable "2001: A Space Odyssey. " It contains the answers to all the questions it advances. Why, then, has this film already infuriated and confused so many audiences?
I went to see it again last week and was surrounded by the mumble of many conversations. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Super Mario Bros: 25 Mario facts for the 25th anniversary. It's the biggest game series of all time, and Super Mario is 25 years-old today.
To celebrate, we've jammed together 25 snippets of Mario trivia. Don a pair of blue dungarees and adopt an inaccurate Italian accent, it's Mario time! 1. Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and appeared in the game designer's first ever title, the 1981 arcade platformer, Donkey Kong. Miyamoto was hired as a graphic artist by Nintendo in 1977, and was given the task of designing a game after several of the company's early coin-ops had failed to make an impression on the lucrative arcade market. Wesingyourtweets's Channel.
Mental_floss Blog » 7 Little-Known Muppets. Sure, you know the Swedish Chef, Kermit, Miss Piggy and Beaker. Who doesn’t? But what about some of the more obscure Muppets? BUMP Turns Your License Plate into an Inbox - AppScout. The worst thing about commuting in a car to and from the office is the wasted time spent behind the wheel, especially if your commute is long or you're stuck in traffic.
Granted, it's difficult to turn your car into a mobile workspace safely, but the folks behind BUMP, a new Web service just launched at the DEMO conference this week, believe they can turn the cars on the road into a social network that you can use to alert other drivers to issues they may not be aware of, or even send a message to someone you encounter on the road in passing but have no other way to contact. To use the service, all you have to do is claim your license plate as an inbox, and then attach it to your mobile phone or e-mail address. Then, if another BUMP user sees you on the road, they can send a message through BUMP to you using your license plate as an identifier. BUMP will then forward the message to you via e-mail or SMS message while you're sitting in the car. There's a business side to BUMP too. William Shatner explains what microprocessors are and do... from way back in 1976.
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