Merry almost Christmas!
- Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk story anthology Mirrorshades, available to read. (via)
- An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities. The birth of fuzzing. (PDF, via via)
- Copyright law is living in the past. A good explanation of music copyright oddities.
- ARCC opens for login tomorrow. Buy a ticket as a present to yourself.
- The UX of delivering parcels. Reminds me of the long-ago Postal Experiments from the Annals of Improbable Research. (via)
- Val Town. (via)
- Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet. I endorse this. (via)
- The sound of Wikipedia. Bells for additions, string plucks for removals, pitch to indicate size of edit. (via)
- Early Computer Art by Barbara Nessim. (also via)
- EuroBSDCon is happening in Dublin in September 2024. (via)
- A vt100 compatibility question that led to talk about termcap hacking and printer shenanigans. (follow all those links)