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• COLOR vs COLOUR in the Acorn.
• World’s oldest orrery.  Source has pictures in the attachments.
• Vintage Tech, a series of Believer columns about older technology like ballpoint pens, and fortune cookies; enjoyable reads.
• John Cleese, advertising for Compaq.  (via)
• Purposeful noise in 3D rendering.
• Black Box Record Club,  Vinyl Me, and Vinyl Moon, all record delivery services.  (via)
• Secretly Public Domain: Update.  Further details on a significant change in knowledge.
• Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide.  (via)
• Juiced.GS, a quarterly Apple II journal.
• Chaos Communication Camp 2019 video.  (via)
• No CLI Ads.  (via)
• Ola Bini’s Letters from Detention.  The reason I link to the commentary is the pull quote; the idea that “[C]ode and architecture are more important than laws.”  Laws are public; code often isn’t.  Which is an argument for open source, certainly.
• Many ways to pop balloons.  Not sure if that’s the actual intent.
• ASCII-Mapper.  (via)
• Bookhunter, the comic.  (via)
• The Sound of D&D.
• Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf].  (via)
• Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers.  Like Rocky’s Boots, but physical.  (via)
• Obscure plugin game consoles.  (via)
• The Hathi Trust, another source for out-of-copyright books comparable to Gutenberg.  (via)
• GNOME Terminal Cursor Blinking Saga.  (via)