Happy 35th, Atari 2600! | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games

Happy 35th, Atari 2600! | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games: October 14 marks the 35th birthday of the legendary game console, which landed with a bang in 1977. It wasn't the first home video game system -- that honor belongs to the Magnavox Odyssey -- but it quickly became the most widely adopted and set the standard for many, many years.
To celebrate the console that revolutionized home entertainment, we dug up 35 factoids you might not have heard about while you were busy playing Asteroids and Pitfall.

Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette - NYTimes.com

Loved loved loved M. Wells. Glad it's open. Hate that he had to bow to anti-freedom zealots.

Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette - NYTimes.com: M. Wells Dinette, the highly anticipated reincarnation inside MoMA PS1 of a celebrated Queens restaurant, has been open for only five days, but its chef and owners have already removed a controversial item planned for the menu.

The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists

The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists: What kind of school doesn't want a kid to stand up to a bully, especially when they're doing it to help someone else?

Oldest Living Princeton Undergraduate Dies | Mudd Manuscript Library Blog

I saw him at Reunions many times...

Oldest Living Princeton Undergraduate Dies | Mudd Manuscript Library Blog: Malcolm Warnock, the oldest known living Princeton undergraduate alumnus of all time, has passed away at the age of 107. Malcolm Roe Warnock was a part of the Class of 1925.

The CD, At 30, Is Feeling Its Age : The Record : NPR

The CD, At 30, Is Feeling Its Age : The Record : NPR: Today marks the 30th anniversary of a musical format many of us grew up with: the compact disc.