Lots of randomness this week.  That’s great!

• Facial animation, then and now, and now.  (via)
• accessmaincomputerfile.net.  Some of these are real, or at least made with ‘real’ parts.  (via)
• Writing more maintainable shell scripts.  (again, Bash-specific.)
• Nancy Householder Hauge’s stories about working HR for Sun Microsystems relatively early in the life of the company: parts one, two, three, four, five, six.  (via)
• The Descent to C. C programming for people not used to C.  Written by the fellow responsible for PuTTY.  (via)
• Access Windows through SSH.  It’s confusing.
• It’s not a bug, it’s a…  (found via)
• The Magic of Strace.  (via)
• SSD Reliability.  Not really a statistics-based study.
• The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art.  It goes far deeper than you’d expect.
• Related: ‘ascii art’ tagged on Tumblr.  (via)
• Amiga nostalgia, via the Apple app store.
• Why I like Java.  This is perhaps the best description of the language I’ve seen.

Your unrelated link of the week: it’s two links, for the two very rare German episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.