I was out sick for a few days this week (Norwalk virus ain’t fun), and so there’s a whole lot of links to follow.

• The History of the Pocket Knife.  I link to it because the pictures are pretty, and because a multitool is one of the more useful physical tools you can have.  (via)
• “Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler” Scott Hanselman’s keynote at Velocity 2014.  I would like the reaction GIF to die out as a presentation tool, but the talk is funny.  (via)
• Ooh, a new James Mickens video!  This is a sort of antidote to the overoptimistic Scott Hanselman video.  Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure.  (via)
• Book review: The Art of Unix Programming.
• Computing Across America.
• Again, not DragonFlyBSD.
• Some interesting thoughts and actions on copyright.  I bought the bumper sticker the author’s talking about, directly from him.
• Uh oh.
• Multi-process architectures suck.  Yet that’s everything we work on these days.  (via)
• The March Towards Go.  I keep meaning to sit down and actually try a project in Go.  (via)
• UNIX Tricks.  Some Linuxisms in there, but oh well.  (via)
• Vim as Language.  Not a bad description.  Related by association: I get tired of seeing the little-avatar-plus-name-plus-job-title that gets stuck on so many blog posts.  (via)
• An interview with Damien Conway.  He’s a very smart and direct person, so the interview is worthwhile.  (via)
• Patching the Newton.  Some interesting early history.  I remember holding a Newton and saying “This should work like a phone.”
• BOOTSTRA.386 – A Bootstrap theme that will entertain you, or maybe give you painful flashbacks.  (via multiple places)

Your unrelated link of the week: The 1987 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship.  Imagine there was no Internet access other than what you can telnet to, and nothing on TV other than this.  That’s 1987.