- Gödel’s Loophole is an “inner contradiction” in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the existence of the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein about it at the time, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never mentioned the exact problem as Gödel saw it. This has led to speculation about the precise nature of what has come to be called “Gödel’s Loophole”. It has been called “one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law” by F. E. Guerra-Pujol.
- Demon Attack (atarionline.org)
Demon Attack is a game for the Atari 2600 developed by Imagic in 1982. Although it is said to be inspired by the 1979 arcade game Galaxian, its gameplay and visuals are more closely related to some waves from the 1980 arcade game Phoenix. This similarity led to a lawsuit from Atari, Inc., who had acquired the home video game rights to Phoenix. The dispute was eventually settled out of court, and despite the legal challenge, Demon Attack went on to become Imagic’s best-selling game as of 1983.