Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and E xploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and 1 0 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).