I started this Lazy Reading early, since I had so many links it overflowed into the next week.  Merry almost Christmas!

• Here’s an in-depth review of Guilded Youth, an interactive fiction game that hearkens back to the old days of BBS usage.  (Do I need an interactive fiction tag to complement the roguelike one?)
• Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk.  I really think part of DragonFly’s success, despite being such a small, esoteric project, has come from being generally tolerant.
• Vmail, a Vim interface to Gmail.  This seems pretty slick.  Looking further, the author has a number of other Vi/Vim-related projects, like a Vim wiki, Vim newsreader, Vim iTunes controls, and more.  Also something really clever: the equivalent of ‘tail -f twitter.com‘  (via)
• How I got four errors into a one-line program.  All via git.
• Go for C programmers.  (via)
• Mars Code.  I like the statistic that the lines-per-hour of code was <10; it points out that not all metrics apply, all the time.  (also via)
• I never thought I’d actually see e17 come out.
• XKCD has a good summary of the recent Instagram licensing mess, and perhaps a good summary of social media in general.  I’m always surprised when I see a business using Facebook or something similar as their primary customer contact method.
• Why is grep always fast?  Here’s a very technical explanation of why.  There’s more.
• Bunnie Huang is building a laptop.  All the extra headers and analog bits remind me of the dearly departed BeBox.  (Bunnie mentioned previously here)  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: I work at a salt mine.  One of the highlights of my job is when I’m in the mine and need to get somewhere quickly; I use a 4-wheeler to drive.  (I’m licensed to operate it.)  There’s no stop signs, no stoplights, and generally a whole lot of straight roads with no obstacles or traffic.    It can be a fun drive.  However, it’s not as cool as driving on the moon.  (via)