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From a white ball bouncing back and forth on a screen to a duo of plumber brothers, the history of video games has been relatively short but packed with a wide array of gaming experiences. To honor some of the first greats, the World Video Game Hall of Fame has inducted its inaugural class, including Pong and Super Mario Bros. on the list, among others.

Joining those old favorites in the first-ever class of hall of famers are other vintage games like Pac-Man and Tetris (and now the song is in your head), along with newer games DOOM and World of Warcraft.

The WVGHOF opened its doors just last February at the Strong Museum in Rochester, N.Y. The nomination period for any electronic game — whether arcade, mobile or console — lasting through the end of March.

Games were chosen by a global committee made of almost two dozen game historians, journalists and professors, reports the Wall Street Journal, with the museum’s staff winnowing down March’s picks to 15 finalists. Oldies like The Legend of Zelda and Space Invaders joined newer fare like Angry Birds and Minecraft on the list of finalists, but only six could prevail as inductees.

Choosing inductees was “tough because all the nominees are important and influential games,” selection-committee member Ian Bogost, a game developer and professor at Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts told the WSJ. “We didn’t have a ton of time,” he says, adding that he’s pleased regardless with the picks.

The inaugural class will go on display at Strong’s eGamesRevolution exhibit.

‘Pong’ and ‘Pac-Man’ Are Among the First Inductees in the World Videogame Hall of Fame [Wall Street Journal]

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Stressed out by the idea of lathering your first editions in wood glue? Don’t fancy spending a packet on a cleaning machine? Paul Rigby offers eight easy and affordable ways to keep your records in good nick.

“Oh, I can’t stand vinyl. All those clicks and hiss and noise and things.” In the majority of cases (not all, I grant you that) the source of this criticism is dirty vinyl, bunged up with so much rubbish that the poor stylus has to battle through the groove like a digitised hero in a beat-em-up game.

If you look after your vinyl, then there is no reason why your new, quiet record shouldn’t stay quiet for many, many years. More than that, giving second hand records a thorough cleaning will drastically reduce any noise that you hear. Using a record cleaning machine is the best way to clean a record but they are often prohibitively expensive. Fortunately, there are plenty of cheaper, manual methods of record cleaning that do a great job. What follows is a broad selection of the different types of cleaning gadgets that you can buy.

Before we get to that, though, allow me to remove a few myths. There are certain things that you should most definitely avoid when cleaning vinyl. The most contentious of the lot and one that will have a few readers and some hi-fi journalists up in arms is pure, isopropyl alcohol (as opposed to the remnants of your last vodka and tonic). This stuff can be disastrous for vinyl. The problem is, it also lies within many commercial record cleaning products, so look carefully at the ingredients before you use them. Pure alcohol strips away much of the rubbish and gunge from grooves – which is great – but it also removes the protective coating that rests on the groove walls/floor. I don’t mean the oft talked about ‘release agent’ that a record pressing plant utilises and is often left to bung up vinyl grooves, either. Once that essential protective layer is gone, music sounds harsh and brittle. I’ve done a series of sound tests to prove this phenomenon. Initially, alcohol-cleaned records sound great. After the third or fourth clean, they sound terrible. By then, though, it’s too late and your record has been irretrievably scarred.

Another no-no is commercial cleaning products (i.e. sprays, liquids and the like) hanging around your kitchen. They can often attack the vinyl itself or, at the very least, block your grooves with more rubbish than they remove.

Also, do not rinse vinyl under a tap. You risk damaging the fragile record label. Tap water also includes plenty of impurities which re-infect record grooves.

Finally, new records need cleaning too. They are normally infested with dust – even on a micro level – plus that oily pressing plant release agent I mentioned earlier.

Now, onto the good stuff.

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Microfiber Cleaning Cloth
Price: around £5-£10
www.amazon.co.uk (plus many other outlets)

If a good quality brush is out of your budget range then take a look at a non-abrasive, microfibre cleaning cloth. A good quality example is offered by 3M but there’s plenty of others out there. This type of cloth is good at absorbing oils and hangs onto dust and grime.

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AudioQuest Anti-Static Record Cleaning Brush
Price: £13
www.audiovisualonline.co.uk

As an alternative to a pad, the brush is useful for two reasons. Firstly, it has a better chance of entering the grooves to remove dirt that lies within. Second, because of the nature of the fibre type, it drains the static electricity which attracts dust in the first place.

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Cleaning Mat
Price: £13
www.analogueseduction.net

It’s a good thing to clean your record away from your turntable so that any dust and grime removed will be away from the playing area. Otherwise you risk recontaminating the record.

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Mobile Fidelity Record Cleaning Brush
Price: £20
www.russandrews.com

A common tool in terms of cleaning your records, this brush is very easy to use and, because it has a wide surface area, is stable and covers more of your record. Place it on a rotating record and see the dust build, sweep it off the record and the rest of the broad pad traps the muck. Simple and easy to use. Replacement pads are £8.50 for a pack of two.

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Tonar Nostatic Record Cleaning Arm
Price: £20
www.analogueseduction.net

The cleaning arm – and there are several models out there – purports to clean as you play. A small brush is fixed to the end that sits on the rotating record, removing dust before it hits the stylus as well as removing static. One of the better models out there.

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Milty Zerostat 3
Price: £52
www.custom-cable.co.uk

This ‘gun’ cleans by removing static electricity that sits around your record, which in turn draws dust and grime to the grooves. When you remove your record from its inner sleeve, if you hear the crackle of static or your sleeve clings to the vinyl then you are in real need of anti-static tools. Never needs replenishing, it’s a one-off purchase.

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Nagaoka CL-1000
Price: £81.50
www.divineaudio.co.uk

Uses a sticky roller which, when pulled across a record, lifts dust and grime from the upper surface and the grooves. The roller should never lose its sticky action. It can also be washed to renew it. Although no longer made, also check out eBay for unused ‘Pixall’ Rollers which operate on the same principle but uses sticky paper. The top layer is discarded when full of dust/grime, to reveal a fresh piece underneath. You can often find them for around £20-£30 each.

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Disco Antistat Record Cleaner
Price: £42
www.amazon.co.uk

The best manual record cleaner out there. You clamp a record between two plastic, screw-threaded discs featuring an axle of sorts, then hang the record in a thin ‘bath’ of cleaning liquid. You then rotate the record manually one way for several turns and then in the opposite direction whereupon brushes, submerged in the bath, gently ‘scrub’ the record. The record is then placed on a rack to drip-dry. A better design than the competing Spin Clean.

Read next: How to use Photoshop to avoid buying scratched secondhand records online
The eight best budget turntables that won’t ruin your records
Pressed to the Edge: Why vinyl hype is destroying the record

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Surly just opened their fine dining restaurant upstairs at the new brewery and my wife was awesome enough to get us reservations! Here is my review of our experience and I highly recommend you try it out.

http://jackofallbrews.blogspot.com/2015/06/surly-brewers-table.html

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When you spend a few hundred dollars on a portable speaker, you probably assume that you’re buying a quality piece of electronics that will sound nice and not overheat and catch fire when it’s not supposed to. That is not the case for the Beats Pill XL, a signature product for the headphone company, which is now part of Apple.

The Beats Pill XL went on sale in early January 2014, and Apple’s purchase of the company happened in August of that year. Today, Apple announced that they’re recalling all of the speakers after eight reports of overheated units. One burned a customer’s finger, and another damaged a customer’s desk.

The speaker is a recognizable product, which could be in any of five different colors: black, white, pink, metallic sky, or titanium. (Those last two are sightly different shades of gray.) The recalled version has the product name on its carrying handle.

If you own one, returning the item to Apple for a refund or for store credit is your only option. Confusingly, the Pill XL appears to still be available for sale from Apple, but that may be an updated version.

If you have questions about the recall, call Apple at (800) 275-2273, or visit the recall site to read more about it or to request a postage-paid box to mail yours back.

Beats Pill XL Speaker Recall Program [Apple]
Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Portable Wireless Speakers Due to Fire Hazard [CPSC]

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There's a new vulnerability that could let evildoers control your Mac, even after you format the system drive. Discovered by OS X security expert Pedro Vilaca, the exploit targets older machines after they wake up from sleep mode. The problem is that...

Official imagery has landed for the Pro Stars Air Jordan 5. Also being called Space Jam for a similar color combination as the cover, sources are strongly suggesting this pair is inspired by the early 90s cartoon that featured Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky.

The Jordan 5 Pro Stars comes with a white upper, along the midsole is a mixture of light poison green, black and infrared. Cement print can be seen on the tongue while they are finished off with a translucent sole.

You can grab the Air Jordan 5 Pro Stars on June 6th 2015 and the retail price is $190. You can see plenty of images of the shoes below and while you’re at it, leave a comment on what you think of them.

Air Jordan 5 Pro Stars
Colorway: White/Infrared 23-Light Poison Green-Black
Release Date: 06/06/2015
Retail: $190
Product Number: 136027-115

Thanks to an iOS app called Watch Band.

The recent advent of the Apple Watch has resulted in many users beginning to test the different capabilities of their new device. Music making isn’t likely to be one of the most popular uses of the high-tech wristwatch, but nevertheless a few clever users have worked out how to control Ableton Live using an Apple Watch.

This video, via Ableton Live Expert, shows how you can control Ableton Live with an Apple Watch by using the Watch Band MIDI controller. The video’s creators note, “It’s flaky, laggy, and borderline pointless, but it’s fun!”

Watch the video below and check the 10 best cheap music production apps for iOS. [via Synthtopia]

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