I am sorely tempted to buy one of those there Flippers.

• Internet Histories, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2021.  (via)
• World’s first commercial flight simulator. (via)
• The Flipper Zero.  (via)
• The Age of Software: An Introduction.
• Monitoring the Health of Precursor’s TRNGs and Upgrading Precursor’s TRNG.
• Decoding the signal from 1988 Videophone.  (via)
• Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game. Not just talking about it, but you can download it.
• Science Fiction Novels for Economists.  (via several places)
• Hyperbolic Text.
• The Timeline of Information Technology.  (via)
• The Tyranny of Time.  Using a specific vocabulary, but good facts.  (via)
• Surprising shared word etymologies.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: Chronicling Yautja’s Decade-Long Quest to Merge Sludge and Grindcore.