Getting close to 2.12 release…

• Steam and Team Fortress 2 running on a BSD – PC-BSD with an NVIDIA driver, in this case, but it may apply to other cards and other games.  Using Wine is always so intricate, it seems.
• Remember how suddenly a large chunk of Internet traffic was suddenly routed through China, briefly in early 2010?  Apparently it’s happened a few more times since then.  This article at the Economist talks about that and the SCION project, in an accessible way.
• The 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition has released this year’s entries, and almost all of them can be played online.  (via)  There goes a few hours of your life.  Sorry.
• Speaking of hours, there’s apparently a civil lawsuit that has rendered timezone data unavailable.  Here’s a good summation.  It’s a frustrating scenario.  (via multiple places)
• World’s best introduction to sed.