Physical parts and their history is the mini-theme.

• The earth is speeding up recently.  Literally, 2028 may  be less than a year long.
• Sam and Max Hit the Road, an in-depth history.  The original 1990s comics origin is noteworthy.  (reminded via)
• hi analysis.
• Amazon + Kindle means less books for all of us.
• AIRAMP: Bringing Winamp Into The Real World!
• LED Pocketwatch.
• Ways of reading without the influence of community.
• Signal Boost Bots And Manipulated Trending Content (about halfway down the page.  Spam mechanisms as involuntary attention-boosters.
• History of the Kensington security slot.  Chances are you are sitting about 2 feet away from one right now.
• How the IBM PC won then lost the personal computer market.  (via)
• Why and How you should start using Onion Networking.  (via)
• “Paleo PNGs”.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1998: Photopia and 1999: King of Dragon Pass.
• A 5,400 character typewriter.  Pre-Unicode, obviously.  Check the source link for some neat historic pictures on other topics.

Your unrelated music of the week: Jalang.