Foundations is perhaps the theme?  Support?  Underlying structures?

• As much as it is easy to complain about big tech companies, sometimes they quietly do the right thing.
• Related: The people holding up the Internet.  (via multiple places)
• Adafruit Halloween projects.
• BYU’s fossil vending machine.
• Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores.
• Previous link from Some Measured Fractal Dimensions, worth a read on its own.
• quxnet, submitted by the admin.  Old-school messages, almost like USENET circa 1995.
• Related: quux == four.  I hope that exists already in your brain and you know why.
• Ron Pippin.  I’ve lost track of where I got this link, but it’s neat stuff.
• The Institute of Network Cultures and their publication Fragments of Tactical Media, available as PDF or more interestingly as Etherport.  (via)
• The Most Accurate Watch that Doesn’t Tell Time.
• Hammer Horror, a quick explainer in time for Halloween.

Your unrelated music video of the week: Return the Goat.  Next in the story: Helm Yeah.  Yes, it’s a gimmick, but the music is good.