The Internet overfloweth with good links, lately.  Nothing this week that requires a lot of reading, but plenty of things to click.  Enjoy!

• The “Basket of Remotes” problem.  An area where standards are never applied.
• Dice portraits.  I like the images.  (via)
• Who made that dial tone?  (via a mailing list)
• Simple Git workflow is simple.  (via)
• Bunnie Huang talks about his open laptop project, Novena.  (mentioned here before.)  They sound really neat, but I can imagine you need to be ready for a certain amount of manual work.
• Speaking of machines, Michael W. Lucas got a beefy new desktop system from iXsystems, which is is not a product they advertise… but it makes sense if you want to run a BSD.
• How I built a Raspberry Pi Tablet.  Here’s how the author did it.  It wasn’t cheap or easy.  (via)
• A History of Programming Games, 1961-1989.  Not games programming, but games where you program robots as part of the game.  I remember being horribly confused by Robotwar on the Apple ][.  (via)
• A LISP interpreter, written in Bash.  Is there one written in Javascript yet?  There must be.  (via)
• You use SSH keys, don’t you?  If not, read this primer.
• On compiling 34 year old C code.  Getting Unix V7 ed/sed working.  As the article points out, “ed is already using a legacy interface in 1979.”  (via)
• Most pedantic bug ever.  (via somewhere on Twitter, of all places)
• Also on Twitter: I am devloper.
• Facebook is launching a newsfeed reader.  I agree with the person who originally posted this link – it’ll probably be a one-way street where Facebook scarfs up content from the rest of the web via RSS, but everything on Facebook will stay locked away.
• I am looking forward to replacing my Windows desktop with a non-Windows tablet – it’s getting closer.
• Remember: if it’s not on a drive that is in your physical possession, it’s not really yours.
• The curse of the leading zero.
• The Hidden Backdoors to the City of Cron.  (re)Infection via cron.  (via)
• The Internet is better referred to as “the Stacks”.  It’s 5 companies, and everything revolves around what they do.  That end-of-2012 article is talking about Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft…  though Microsoft seems to be on the way out.  Anyway, startups plan for buyout these days, which should tell you that it’s easier to take cash from one of a few large companies than try to compete with them, however indirectly.

Your unrelated link of the week:  Fail Forward, a collection of writing about pen and paper RPGs.  (via)