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My pal Charles Mangin (@option8) saw a chance to do something great for the environment, and his experiment is going extremely well: All those Apple II machines, just sitting around... destined for landfills if we don't do something to get them back into the computer workforce!
So, Charles has created 8BITCOIN, a bitcoin miner for the Apple II. The numbers are, of course, still out - it appears that it will take a few trillion years for this grand machine to get an actual BTC, but it's doing its absolute best and that's all we can ask for.
I'm sure you're curious, so the 8BITCOIN application (8BTC for Short) is now streaming LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/8btc - get in there and watch history and riches being made... very slowly.
If you have an Apple II lying around, you can get mining as well - naturally Charles has released the floppy disk image for you. github.com/option8/8BITCO…
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OK, time to talk about Project Everything
We are now so far ahead with the actual process of Apple II disk imaging that we are going to run out of Apple II floppy disks to image within the year. If someone is working on it, dozens can be imaged in a day, hundreds in some cases across all the imaging stations out there.
This isn't to say we're going to run out of Apple II disks OUT THERE, but between procrastination, collector loss aversion, and people not knowing this project exists, we're going to definitely hit a wall.
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Here's the story as I understand it.

Sony is working on WIPEOUT, a game that, even in beta, looks like it's going to be a killer title for the brand new Playstation console. And Sony was going for a "club" feel with the PSX and WIPEOUT was perfect.
Designers F'n Republic giving it the look. Ships that look like something a hundred years in the future. Smooth as butter gameplay. This thing is going to be huge. And the best part is the S YN E R GY. Sony-signed artists as the soundtrack! Chemical Brothers. Orbital. Leftfield.
Two things happened here, again, as I understand them. Other Psygnosis vets can correct me, and I'd be sad but understand if how I was told this internally was in fact wrong.
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Today, Jon Stewart testified about the important of extending the 9/11 fund past 2020, to handle the health and welfare of first responders who went to Ground Zero and worked there, suffering greatly in the years hence. I'd like to add something to that discussion, something new.
In the past week, I was handed a cache of 2,400 photos taken at Ground Zero from the end of September to beginning of October, 2001. They were taken by a worker who was there with a Canon Powershot G1, and who snapped away while toiling through the wreckage.
There are photos from inside buildings, outside areas that are being cleared, as well as of from a variety of viewpoints. It's rather extensive. This is straight from CDRs dumped from the Powershot G1 camera.
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