A lot of this I picked up in previous weeks, knowing that the U.S Thanksgiving holiday was going to either dry up all links or give me a crapload.

• Junkbot competition results.  (via)
• It Came From Bell Labs – Story of the Plan 9 operating system.  (via)
• Modelling data structures as files and directories on disk.
• Compromising a Linux desktop using… 6502 processor opcodes on the NES?!  (via)
• Who Will Command The Robot Armies?  Starts describing awful things I knew about and then charges to a new level of awful, like this.  (via)
• Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser.  (via)
• The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile.  (via)
• Comments on the previous link led me to the fun-looking Pyra handheld.
• The end of the general purpose operating system.  Or the start of a new application development category?  I think this is a view that changes depending on what technology you are invested in.
• Hold down RET for 70 seconds to get a root shell.
• 30 days in a terminal: Day 0 — The adventure begins.  Spoiler: it doesn’t work out.  (via)
• Were your grandparents hacking in 1963?  (via)
• IFComp crowns its first non-parser game.
• The current Humble Book Bundle is a lot of classic/useful Unix books.  DRM-free, pay very little.  Worth it for any two of the books involved.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: The Secret World of Stuff.  (via)