A bumper crop of odd links today!  Reading for a long weekend, or at least it’s a long weekend for most North American readers, I think.

• The joy of reading role-playing games.  I may have spent more time reading rulebooks than playing the actual games.  (via)
• Endless Orchard, a map of (U.S.) public fruit trees.  Dunno if there’s an equivalent for any part of Europe.  (via)
• Summertime, and the lemonade is easy.  Optimized Lemonade Stand strategy.
• Programming Games.  Not programming a game, but games you play that are structured like programming.
• books chapter one.  Ted Unangst summarizes a bunch of coding books – but just the start.
• Dear Lazyweb, tell me about colo and the followup, Colo, again.
• Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive.  Hoping to buy one to replace my aging X220 at work, if the stats are right.  (via luxh on #dragonflybsd)  Related to this historical post which I have linked before.
• Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes.  (via)
• efficient music players remain elusive.
• WiFi232 with a Macintosh 512ke.  Related: the Lobste.rs BBS.
• Nodes of Yesod: ZX Spectrum Next – developer blog episode 1.
• Old usenet maps.  Remember, the originals were done by hand.  (via)
• Canon Cat Resources.  A business application appliance with a built-in Forth interpreter, and built by Jef Raskin of original Macintosh fame.   An odd and powerful machine from another timeline.  (via)