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Submission + - Tweetidor: the humidor that tweets (longashes.org)

Submitted by wolfspirittt
wolfspirittt writes: I know what you are thinking.. not another device that tweets something! Yup, another device that tweets something. This time its a humidor and it tweets that status of its relative humidity and temperature levels. For cigar aficionados, this means a lot.
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Ender in Exile 507

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
stoolpigeon writes "Orson Scott Card's work Ender's Game began as a novelette, which he says he wrote as a means of leading up to the full story he had developed, Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game was published as a full novel in 1985, and won the Hugo and Nebula awards (as did Speaker for the Dead in '86 and '87). I think it is safe to say that Ender's Game is ensconced in its position as a science fiction classic. Now, 23 years later, Card has finished the first direct sequel to Ender's Game in his new novel Ender in Exile." Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.
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History of MECC and Oregon Trail 149

Posted by Zonk from the little-timmy-has-died-of-dysentery dept.
Gammu writes "For the past thirty years, many children have been raised with a heavy diet of MECC games like Oregon Trail, Odell Lake and Lemonade Stand. These products weren't developed by a major game developer. Rather, they were developed by the state of Minnesota for use in their schools. What began as an initiative to get Minnesota students ready for the micro-computer age turned into a multi-million dollar a year business whose products are still used in US schools even a decade after MECC was sold off to another developer."

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