Spooky Reading!

• Empowering People … and Their Things.
• Stillfleet, a tabletop game with space hulks.  Not Space Hulk, though.  The character generator is fun.  (via)
• The slab and the permacomputer.
• We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly.
• Casio IRC.  (via)
• Vintage computer pictures.  (also via)
• You use more open source software than you think.
• To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before.  Of course Vint Cerf dresses that well, and here’s the poster he’s holding.  (via)
• Repetition, In Four Parts.  Linked cause of the regex explanation.
• The First Modern Drum Machine.  (via)
• Juncture, for visual essays.  Created originally to talk about plants, of all things.  (via)
• 50 Watts, and 50 Watt Books.  (via)
• The ENIAC Monte Carlo program from 1947 on a poster.  The first stored instruction program ever.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2011: Nested.
• Space probe software bug.  17 years to Y2038.
• Skip songs by looking.

Your unrelated music of the week: OV / ER / LO / AD from the Kleptones.  The last two are linked but not yet released, so if they don’t work yet, come back in a week.