The F Scale: “an instrument that (yields) an estimate of fascist receptivity at the personality level.” Relieved to find my score wasn’t “…within normal limits; an appropriate score for an American.” Via Leslie Turek, with whose weblog I’ve become acquainted via my referrer log. She is a fellow Bostonian and appears to have been a campus contemporary of mine as an undergraduate. Leslie also points to this New York Times reminiscence on the 40th anniversary of Spacewar’s advent at MIT. Turek seems to have been there (“When I was a member of the MIT Science Fiction Society in the 60’s, I knew a bunch of people who used to hang out in the M.I.T. computer lab playing Spacewar, and a number of the names in the article are familiar to me. Many of them felt at the time that games were the true calling of computers”); I enjoyed it vicariously from afar, a decade later, via Stewart Brand’s “Fanatic Life & Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums.”