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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 How Refrigerators Work -- The icebox era -- Enter the electric household refrigerator -- Creating the cold -- 2 How to Make Your Refrigerator Stand Out -- How to stand out in a crowded market -- Why do Americans have such big refrigerators? -- The exterior -- The interior -- 3 Are the Benefits of Refrigeration Worth the Costs? -- Powering the cold -- Even locavores should love refrigerators -- Life without a refrigerator -- 4 Waste and Wants -- More food, more waste -- Recreating the winter -- "Her Kitchen . . . and Your Good Judgment" -- 5 Freezing and Freezers -- Top or bottom? -- Frozen foods -- The humble ice cube -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INDEX

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 DISCONNECTED -- Chapter 2 HERMIT ' S HUT -- Chapter 3 OUR SPEED -- Chapter 4 The Phantom Phone Booth -- Chapter 5 SAY ANYTHING -- The telephone box -- The spirit world -- Lighthouse on the highway -- Chapter 6 FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE -- Chapter 7 SIGNIFICANT PORTALS -- Rootlessness -- Chapter 8 A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE -- " Insidious tentacle " -- Crimes and misdemeanors -- The lives of others -- Chapter 9 GLASS CASE OF EMOTION -- Transformations -- Chapter 10 THE GOD BOOTH -- Burning Man -- New Haven -- Desert solitaire -- Chapter 11 ONLY CONNECT -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The beach that speaks -- Chapter 2 Trash familiars/Tabflab -- Chapter 3 Pigs in space -- Chapter 4 Million-year panic -- Chapter 5 Ruinism -- Chapter 6 Splinter, shard, and stone -- Chapter 7 Where the hoard is -- Chapter 8 Lake Carbamazepine -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Novelty -- Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute -- Trapping sound -- The Walkman's fathers -- The case of Andreas Pavel -- Invention or evolution? -- Enter the Walkman -- "The thinking man's box" -- The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins -- "Outside of reality" -- 2 Norm -- Hear Muffs and baladeurs -- Symbol of the 1980s -- A public health problem -- Death by Walkman -- "Home taping is killing music" -- "First, drug abuse -- now, earphone abuse" -- "There is no such thing as society" -- A nonstop masturbational fantasy -- Fondalepsy and Walkman's Oblivion -- Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars -- "Remember Pearl Harbor" -- The management of everyday life -- A listening, enjoying unit -- What would Miss Manners say? -- 3 Nostalgia -- Music wants to be free -- The iPod arrives -- Whatever happened to Sony? -- From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs -- "I only listen to cassettes" -- Why the analog nostalgia? -- Revenge of the Walkman -- A force that bends logic -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Index

A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.

This first volume of the DIGAREC Series holds the proceedings of the conference "The Philosophy of Computer Games", held at the University of Potsdam from May 8-10, 2008. The contributions of the conference address three fields of computer game research that are philosophically relevant and, likewise, to which philosophical reflection is crucial. These are: ethics and politics, the action-space of games, and the magic circle. All three topics are interlinked and constitute the paradigmatic object of computer games: Whereas the first describes computer games on the outside, looking at the cultural effects of games as well as on moral practices acted out with them, the second describes computer games on the inside, i.e. how they are constituted as a medium. The latter finally discusses the way in which a border between these two realms, games and non-games, persists or is already transgressed in respect to a general performativity.