Author: Justin Sherrill

This is a good week for variety.

• The original Utah Teapot, which you’ve surely seen.
• Myst (2020).  I forget that the original was Hypercard.
• A plenitude of alchemical domains.  Linked for flowcharts.
• Log, a robotic abacus of life.
• Bespoke Synth.  (via)
• Vintage Ad Browser and Cover Browser.  (via)
• No one can be told what the cookie policy is. You have to see it for yourself.
• Ten Days of Steve Ditko.  (via)
• Rewilding Your Attention.  Of course I agree.  (via)
• The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony.
• How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer.  (via)
• The code worked differently when the moon was full.  (via)
• musikcube, a terminal music player and library manager.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2006: Dwarf Fortress.  Yes.

I am still not catching up to my RSS feeds but that’s OK, still plenty to read.

• Neglected Books.  Fun for the covers, never mind the books.  (via)
• 1950s Bakelite Podcast Player.  I always liked this concept, whatever the shell.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2004: The Fire Tower and 2005: Shades of Doom.  Yes, that second one is exactly what you suspect.
• A Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating an EPUB with Pandoc.
• Land of Lisp’s Orc Battle, ported to Forth.  (via)
• 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC.  (via)
• How to sneak the Windows 95 credits screen into the build without anybody noticing.
• The Incredible KIMplement 0.2b: a KIM-1 emulator for the Commodore 64 (and the Superkim).
• visurf, a web browser based on NetSurf.
• The script kiddies have come to Gemini.
• How to fix hiring?

Classic Lazy Reading weirdness.

• Can the Subaltern Speak?, radical augmented gaze.  Not really augmented but definitely aesthetic.
• The System Reference Document for D&D, I think version 3.5?  Here’s v5 which might be better.
• More Tomy Tutor homebrew.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2003: The Kingdom of Loathing.
• A visualization of the logos of 5,837 metal bands, grouped by theme, similarity, font, and “13 Dimensions of Doom”.
• SIGCIS 2021 is coming up and is entirely online.
• Spine Desk Lamp.  Could be real if you wanted.
• Game of Life patterns.  (via)
• Three Wifi meters.
• “the most consequential figures in the tech world…”  (via)
• Suzanne Ciani Creates The Soundtrack For A Pinball Machine.  (via)
• Barnsworthburning, a directory.

Your unrelated music link for the week: The Bug – Skeng.  I’ve heard this a million times, but never the whole thing until now.