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William Tell Overture for Honda Civic drivers
Honda made an ad campaign where they paved speed strips into a road such that the driver will hear the William Tell Overture while driving a Honda Civic at 35 MPH.
Advertising Age has an article that has a video clip of a Honda driving over the road, comparing it to a 3.5” floppy disk drive playing the Star Wars Imperial March and a series of old computer equipment playing a Radiohead cover.
Honda Civic William Tell Overture and Star Wars Imperial March on a floppy disk
An alternate clip with better pitch:
Light Bot Flash game
Light Bot is an ingenious puzzle game from Armor Games. It is incredibly addictive. The gameplay requires you to think like a programmer by breaking down repetitive moves into functions and loops to solve the puzzles.
It reminds me of a visual version of old programming tutor simulator called Ootpik that I used at Harvard summer school. I didn’t go to Harvard, it was simply a Harvard summer camp for high schoolers. One of the most memorable summers of my life.