This is the week for entertainment, not deep thought.

• Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security (with slides) – James Mickens.  I am always up for more Mickens.  (via)
• Ferrolic.  A sort of dali clock in real life, except crazy expensive and fragile.
• Inside The Machine, midcentury graphic images of computing.
• 80s computer hacking: a supercut.  Here’s some good discussion.  (via)
• Everything is turning into a service mediated by other companies.  Everything.  (via many places)
• Amiga 30 and the Unkillable Machine. (via)
• Touching the Internet, a story about MAE-East.  (also via)
• The Big List of Naughty Strings.  Good for testing input.  (via)
• “Means Well” Technology and the Internet of Good Intentions.  (via)
• Illuminascii, stretching the definition of roguelike.
• An excerpt from the new book Dungeon Hacks.  (via)
• The Name Game: Rebranding the Roguelike.  (also via)
• A Brief History of Character Codes.  Relevant for all the locale work going into DragonFly right now.  (via)
• “RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags“.  See first answer.  (via)
• The 8th Underhanded C Contest is now open.  (via)
• The ARM processor architecture: Somebody else’s introduction.
• CSVfix.  This will be handy to someone.
• Cameron’s World.  A concentrated dose of Geocities.  (via)