7 posts and columns on Smithsonian

Smithsonian Brings Classic Arcade Games to Life (Video)

in Media on March 24 at 9:00 am PT

Festivities highlighted the opening of a videogame art exhibit at the Smithsonian.
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Video Games As Art? With an Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibit, Pong Equals Picasso

in News on April 3, 2011 at 6:51 am PT

If there is any doubt as to whether Chris Melissinos is qualified to curate the “Art of Video Games” exhibit, scheduled to open next year at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, it vanishes after entering his Northern Virginia home. The walls of his office are adorned with game platforms–he owns 42 different systems, by his last count–dating back nearly four decades.

The FCC's National Broadband Paper Plan Gets a BoomTown Tour of the Nation's Capital!

in News on March 20, 2010 at 12:19 am PT

When BoomTown went to Washington, D.C., last week to visit the Federal Communications Commission on the occasion of its release of the National Broadband Plan, I was actually given a paper version in a giant binder. Yes, at hundreds of pages, a dead-tree copy of a federal scheme to make the United States more digital! So, natch, I gave it a tour of the nation’s capital.

A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun

in The Mossberg Solution on October 20, 2009 at 2:54 pm PT

Goby.com aims to take the guesswork out of finding leisure activities.
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