Off-the-beaten-path links this week.  Strap in!

• The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99.  (via)
• Magnetic core memory reborn.  (via)
• Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillance – Bunnie Huang.
• Why I’m Suing the US Government – also Bunnie Huang.
• Old, special phone numbers.  I’ve used 800-444-4444 a lot when tracing lines.
• The Wanton Role-Playing (WaRP) and Mini-Six game systems.  (via)
• Brief interviews with very small publishers.  (via)
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.  (via)
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers.  (via previous and here)
• A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute.  A PDF, and infinitely useful.  (via)
• I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But I Miss My CDs.  (via I lost it, sorry)
• This used to be Ethernet.  (via)
• turn up the hope  (report from the HOPE convention from Ted Unangst)
• VimGIFs.  (via)
• HyperTerm, an open-source in-browser terminal emulator.  (via)

Your unrelated animated GIF of the week: Permanent Wink.