The last of the year.

• Outgrow.me, a list of successfully funded Kickstarter and IndieGoGo projects.  There’s some neat technology doodads in there.  And a zillion hipster iPhone tripods.
• Remember when you could find program source code printed in magazines, for you to type in?  Here’s an interesting story about that.  (via)
• Some good news: despite the completely hostile (and wrong) story on Slashdot, the FreeBSD Foundation has exceeded their pledge goals for the year by a wide margin.
• A very early pre-Internet story about packets.  (via)
• Relational shell programming.  (via)
• History of the Microwriter.  I remember seeing a version of this called the Twiddler.   (also via)
• How to Host a Dungeon.  Follow some of the links at the bottom.  (also also via)
• Early Apple computer designs.  I link not because it’s Apple but because it’s very much 1980s industrial design, which is both wonderful and awful.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Marlo Meekins’ Tumblr.   Her lettering is refreshingly expressive.  That may sounds strange to single out, but so many people place words as an set block of text rather than as part of a graphic layout.