Pixelbrick

I'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)

I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.

I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.

Isn't that what parallel construction is for?

Can't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.

Banana!

Too right. Never trust someone who thinks they have all the answers.

Dirty money for dirty deeds...

You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.

As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(

Inspiration for Bruce Sterling's short 'Jim & Irene!'

Awesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.

The same way it used to be done before we had LSI/VLSI!

Another one from the Center for the study of the Blindingly Obvious.