This wrote itself a week ago.

• More dialing, more weirdness.
• The Internet On Dead Trees.  I remember a number of these products.
• If you’d like to pay too much for ancient Radio Shack electronics, now’s your chance!  (via)
• books chapter two, a followup to books chapter one which I thought I had linked before, but maybe not.  Anyway, the same numeric chapter from a number of text books, described.
• And I delayed long enough to add books chapter three.
• The Internet Phone.  Most inconvenient way to browse the Internet ever?  (via)
• Stopping the Internet of Noise.  RSS still works, and works well!  (via)
• Urban and suburban camouflage.
• Trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor.  (via)
• Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself. (via)
• Bashfill – art for your terminal.  (via)
• Skip grep, use awk.  (via)
• The origin of HTTP POST explained in a dinosaur comic.
• Not-butters.  (sorta via)
• IFComp 2017 is open.
• Get My Books Cheap.  Not me, Michael W. Lucas’s books – his fiction work, along with a number of other authors.

Your unrelated video link of the week: Animated Short Films.  An animator’s favorites, if the above list of links hasn’t kept you busy enough..