On what I thought was a somewhat unrelated subject, I was reading from this ACM magazine when I came across the name Charles Babbage. The article was on hardware hacking.
There was a store in the University Mall back home called Babbages. I always thought it was a pretty lame store. I just never got into playing computer games.
Of course, Wikipedia had an entry which states: "The former chain retail computer and video-games store "Babbage's" was named after him". The Google search resulted with talks that Babbage's was purchased by Barnes & Noble.
Posted by Michael at May 23, 2006 01:26 PM