Feels like contra-luddite propaganda

The Ultimate History of Video Games is a popular book, written by Steven Kent that tries to cover video game history from the start up to around the early 2000s.

Despite it's popularity, there are many errors. Game historian Ethan Johnson and others put together 65 pages of errata and uploaded it to the Internet Archive.

More context in this blog post: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/what-to-do-about-steven-kent/

Arcadia was a Japanese magazine covering arcade games. All of the issues are available now on archive.org.

We are excited to announce a new version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine!

https://gifcities.org/

The new version of GifCities includes a number of new improvements. We are especially excited at the drastic improvement in “GifSearchies” by implementing semantic search for GifCities, instead of the hacky old “file name” text search of the original version.

This news makes me want to dance!

The Public Domain Review's article about it, with embedded Internet Archive viewer of the book

• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/conjectural-observations/

Directly on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/conjecturalobser00davy

About the Public Domain Review:

Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

The articles are usually (but not always) about things available on the Internet Archive.

Collection of Creepy magazines, uploaded by Warren Publishing.

• https://archive.org/details/creepy_warren

Creepy was an American horror comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and did not carry the seal of the Comics Code Authority. An anthology magazine, it initially was published quarterly but later went bimonthly. Each issue's stories were introduced by the host character, Uncle Creepy.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_(magazine)

Featuring the work of creators like Jim Warren, Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko.

I had a couple of issues of this 3 decades ago (I think Tower Records in the UK sometimes had it).

A magazine for English-speaking learners of Japanese, using snippets from manga popular in Japan (not just the usual suspects known abroad). Explaining vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, writing systems, culture, politics, history and more, in a fun and memorable way.

The full run from 1990 to 1997 has been uploaded by Mangajin, Inc. to the Internet Archive.

Collection on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Mangajin%2C+Inc.%22

Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangajin

Found via Language Log

• https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68979

Editor's note from Volume #1, June 1990

The MANGAJIN project has been brewing for quite some time now, but when the Japanese language “boom” started around the end of the 80's, we decided that the time was right to put the plan into action. In order to develop the concept, we talked to a lot of people and did as much research as we could, but it was impossible to do any real quantitative research. Now that MANGAJIN has been launched, we hope to use it as a research instrument to find out more about what type of material you want to see in this publication.

When we select material for publication in MANGAJIN, we consider suitability for language study — we look for a representative mix of slang and polite speech forms, and for sentence structures likely to be useful. We try to pick material which, although “comic” in nature, reflects popular Japanese culture and values, The final criterion, however, is whether the story has entertainment value.

Because so many people seem to be interested in Japanese for business reasons, we selected a business-related story (Hotel, by Shotaro Ishinomori) as our feature manga for this issue, but we're open to suggestions for future issues. There is certainly plenty to choose from in the world of manga—it's estimated that comic books and magazines accounted for more than 30% of all books and magazines published in Japan in 1988. Let us know what you'd like to see.

Although preferences vary, most people agree that manga are one of the few ways that students of Japanese can access “real” colloquial Japanese and get a glimpse of contemporary Japanese pop culture. Because we provide the readings for the Japanese text in English letters, along with translations and notes, you won't have to spend so much time flipping through the kanji dictionary that you lose interest in the story.

1 hope you find your own method of using and enjoying MANGAJIN, and please let us hear from you.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60220581

It starts off with a stop motion part starring dominoes in front of a little building, and then transitions to a number of scenes featuring some fun camera trickery.

I find it fun that this is essentially the exact same thing we used to make as kids some 60 years later, only we used a digital camera!

If you loved horror-comedy Mr Vampire, then you'll want to see Lam Ching-Ying return as the "vampire"-fighting Taoist priest, only this time he's also a modern-day Hong Kong cop, fighting a drug gang that employs ghosts and the hopping dead!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cop

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098150/

https://archive.org/details/magic-cop-eng-subs

All of David Lynch's feature length films are now available.

12 issues of Free Palestine, an underground newspaper about the Palestinian liberation movement, from 1970. Published by Friends of Free Palestine in Washington D.C. and edited by Abdeen Jabara. Scanned from microfilm, with readability prioritized over aesthetics. Available at the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Periodicals department in Cabinet 145, Roll 54 of the Underground Newspapers collection