Historical platforms week, quite by accident.

• NADCOG, North American Data Center Operators Group.  A new list similar to NANOG but for those who have to manage multiple servers.
• MIT has a Platform Studies series of books on systems like the Amiga, Atari, and so on.  The latest is on the Nintendo Entertainment System, titled “I Am Error“.  (via)
• The Lives of Bots.  We don’t have AI, but we do have non-human actors on the internet.  (via)
• Unix and Windows Hell.  The I HATE EVERYTHING response.  (via)
• Do math with awk.
• A Salute to Solo Programmers.  Follow the links for some interesting historical stories.
• The Ship Date Predictor.  For Windows 95.
• Wired Style: A Linguist Explains Vintage Internet Slang.  I still have HotWired Style on my shelf, which I guess would be a companion book.  (via)
• Fred Brooks: “A Personal History of Computers”.  (via)
• The MUD Connector.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Jack Kirby would have been 98 today.