No matter how you look at it, an anime is a cartoon. The main difference is that an anime is considered a Japanese style of cartoons in the West. Many English-language dictionaries define anime as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or as "a style of animation developed in Japan." Ho...

Now that Jeff Atwood is moving on (see Joel's blog, and Jeff's own), who will be succeeding him as the ultimate authority over feature requests, change requests, cross-site policy, and the like? To be perfectly clear, I'm aiming this question at the Stack Exchange management who will be (presum...

I would like to learn a bit about the first games that were ever played on a computer-like device. It may be a digital computer, a console, an embedded chip or micro-controller or even something semi-mechanical. The game itself has to be a software program and should not be hard-wired into th...

I recently found an old Satellite 4015cds laptop that I wanted to play around with. I have cleaned all the plastic and it looks really good except for two places. The rubber touchpads and the rubber mouse pointer in the middle of the keyboard. Both of these rubber pieces are extremely sticky for...

A fix for this is being pushed and should be live shortly. Thanks!