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Read the small print: The only way to make a worksheet fun is to print it out and make a paper airplane out of it…

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Steve continued to strike it rich after appearing on Time’s cover, managing to scrape enough money together to loose the Freddie Mercury look and shortening his name.

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If “sanity” means good adjustment to particular circumstance, it’s a highly relative thing. But is it really that simple?

I don’t know about sanity, but I do know about proportions, and even factoring in perspective, those hands are very big, and the face mask, the dude’s head must have had a growth problem…

Source: analog, September, 1984.

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Naked androgynous cavemen and evil plotting Egyptians were the stuff of historical fantasy in the late eighties. If you look closely (click on the image for a bigger look) you can see a female explorer pointing out the lack of reproductive organs…

Source: analog, May 1987.

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As a good teacher once said. “Nobody can teach you anything. The best I can do is to help you learn.”

Obviously the teacher wasn’t helping the architects learn anything looking at that random staircase in the air…

Source: analog, July 1982.

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You can tell a lot from a job advert, such as, if you’re having great difficulty in understanding what the advert is saying, then the job probably isn’t for you. Looks like I won’t be applying for any jobs in weapons engineering anytime soon.

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Before JJ Abrams there was Simon & Schuster, creating cutting edge Star Trek computer games for IBM, Apple and Commodore computers. Cutting edge, text based adventures…

Source: analog, April 1987.

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Apple invents the personal computer. Again. And again. And again. In fact, Steve Jobs will have you believe that he can invent the personal computer on a yearly basis. At least that’s what he did before the iPhone.

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