There’s some meaty reading this week, so get settled in and start clicking.

• Haunted Machines An Origin Story.  I love this sort of intersection of ideas.  (via)
• Our Friends, the Bots.  (via previous)
• Futures of Text.  Why wasn’t this ever done at the command line, too?  (via previous)
• Cybernetic Serendipity.
• The Verge’s Web Sucks.  A followup to “The Mobile Web Sucks” that I linked to previously.
• How Does Level Generation Work In Brogue?  The animated gifs work very well here.
• Surfing the Internet from My TRS-80 Model 100.  (via)
• The Itanium processor, parts 2, 3, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.  Here’s part 1 if you missed it last week.  Windows-centric, but probably still interesting for the hardware.
• Ever wonder why they used “that key”?  (via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• Pronunciation guide for UNIX.  (via)
• Forgotten Quests from the golden age of adventure games.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Cartozia Tales.  It’s a comics series where different comics artists start a story, then hands the story off to a different writer and artist for each issue after that.  I’ve been getting individual issues as they make them, and I want more people to subscribe, so they can get enough cash to print the last few issues.  (Independent comics is a hard business.)  Order the complete series, for yourself or as a unique present for a smaller person.