I’m going with high-concept material this week. If you have time for some thinking today, you’ll enjoy the links.
- Sounds recreated from pictures, a video and an album. Making sounds exist that were never recorded – a sort of time travel. (via)
- Transformative Tools for Thought. (via)
- A primer on hardware security keys, which I recommend. (via)
- SIMjacking, a new term to me. (also via)
- A history of procedural text.
- To Go Green, the Energy Industry Goes Open Source.
- Yes I do want LEDs and Bluetooth in my d20s.
- Various IF crowdfunds.
- The Information is Beautiful Award Winners 2019. (via)
- Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool. (via)
- Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer. So pretty!
- 64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody. (via)
- Notes on Ambient Privacy. (via)
- Command and Conquer, a retrospective. Part of what defined RTS games. (via)
- Sunless Skies, a review. Not defining a genre, but a mood. (also via)