No unplanned theme evolved this week, but that’s OK.
- Inside the Race To (finally) Bring Pinball Into the Internet Age. (via)
- A Fun Saturday Survey: UNIX Pronunciation.
- Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer. (via)
- Learning Synths. (via)
- Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Sixteen – The Tide Turns.
- Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Seventeen – Ape Expectations.
- XScreenSaver 5.43 is out.
- evangelion UI. (via)
- At one point, Nashville had two time zones, simultaneously, based on political affiliation. (read contents of patch)
- More Wumpus history.
- ROMchip, a journal of game histories. (via)
- The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art. (lost the source, sorry)
- [Full-time] Operations Engineer at Internet Archive. A worthwhile job.
- How I dropped Dropbox. Worthwhile for thinking about pulling out of any service.
- How NTP Works. (via)
- Fractal drawing tools. Tools to draw fractals, not tools made of fractals.
Your listening link of the week: Kerrang’s 50 best metal bands of the last decade. You (may have) heard it here first on #1. (via)
While technically interesting, I hate the Idea of online leaderboards for pinball machines.
I play Pinball to challenge myself with the 12.000 points some dude from my city got. Not to see the first 12 places be filled by 99.999.999 scores from hax0rkid92 and real_pinball_wizard71.
I know they are trying to implement measures to not have that happen, but in the end every system can be broken.
Some things work because they are old fashioned and I believe Pinball falls precisely in that category.