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Fact for the day

When Space Invaders was released in Japan in 1978 it apparently caused a nationwide coin shortage. The amount of Yen coins in circulation had to be quadrupled! >> via

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Advice to sink in slowly
This was posted a while ago but got lost when my host lost a hard disk and the backup! Here it is again, it’s worth it Check out these amazing posters designed by the older years at University College Falmouth (apparently ‘The UK’s Leading Arts College’). They’re words of wisdom (under the general heading of “advice to sink in slowly”) being passed on to freshers just starting out at UCF: The whole photoset on Flickr Bookmark/Share: sociallist_fc00c3a6_url = 'http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/fact-for-the-day/'; sociallist_fc00c3a6_title = 'Fact for the day'; sociallist_fc00c3a6_text = ''; sociallist_fc00c3a6_tags = ''; ...

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