It’s a good week when I can start collecting new Lazy Reading material right after posting the previous week’s summary.

• There’s a ‘flickr doomsday clock‘.  The concept is entertaining, even though the result it warns about is pretty bad.  (via)  There’s a sort of assumption that external sites hosting huge amounts of our personal data will never go away, or that there’s always an easy way to deal with it if they do.
• Dragonfly – the knife.
• Jack Tramiel died this past week.  He’s responsible for Commodore, and the Amiga, and later owned Atari.  There’s a DragonFly connection; Matthew Dillon was known for his DICE Amiga C compiler, among other things.
• Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers on the Internet. (pdf, from sephe on EFNet #dragonflybsd)  Hopefully I’m summing this up correctly: too many devices buffer network data when there’s congestion (and even when there isn’t congestion) instead of saying “It’s congested” through the normal TCP mechanisms, with the end result of much higher latency for everything.  bufferbloat.net talks about it more, and Matthew Dillon found a good paper about it.
• “PHP is a programming language like scrapple is a meat.”  (via)  I’m just enjoying the metaphors in the third paragraph.
• And that led me to this: PHP: A fractal of bad design.  The list of problems is larger than I thought.  As in, it went from comedy to tragedy in the same document.
• Peter Hansteen talks about port knocking.  (via)  As a side effect, the article provides a good checklist of how to make your system more secure.  “No root login” is already implemented on DragonFly.
• Computers Brochures, 50s-70s.  (via swildner on EFNet #dragonflybsd)  There’s a whole bunch of desktop wallpapers in a zip file down at the end.   The scans are a bit noisy, but fun to see.  I like the layout of the PDP issues.
• Whatever happened to UNIX?  We’re soaking in it.
• I mentioned RetroBSD on PIC32 last week, and now here’s a picture.
• Valve’s internal structure sounds astonishingly like an open source project.  Everyone has access to the code, project direction is determined by interest, and it’s up to you to coordinate with others.
• Google as a 1980s BBS.  (via, via)  It totally works.

Your unrelated link of the week: Quigley’s Cabinet Followups.  There’s about a bazillion links there to follow about weird history.