Again, lots of links.  Some of these are overflow from previous weeks where I just said “That’s enough; let’s work on the next Lazy Reading.”

• Perl, the Detroit of scripting languages.  The slides are entertaining, but it’s also interesting for the discussion of how to handle a very old code base and a community.  (which are BSD issues too)  (via)
• Ruins of Forgotten Empires: APL languages.  “APL uses one thread per CPU, which is how sane people do things.”  (via)
• Remember when we used mega- prefixes to measure disk and memory, and not bandwidth?
• Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part series on ELF linkers and linking.  (via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• PDF compression formats.  Incidentally, here’s an answer on the Xerox number alternation issue, where compression means one number gets misidentified and substituted for another.  The Economist has a not-crazy take on it.  It’s not a Xerox problem but rather a JBIG2 compression issue.  I have a number of Xerox models at work and have not seen this issue, but also haven’t checked for it.
• OSI, the Internet That Wasn’t.  People only ever care about levels 1, 2, 3, and 7 in the OSI model.  And this joke.  (via)
• The Toshiba Libretto.  You can get more powerful, smaller computers now, but they’re cheap netbooks and totally uncool.
• A crash course in tmux.  (via)
• Whatever room you keep your primary computer in – clean it, please.
• Robots for destroying buildings.  This is not some speculative article; these are robots you can buy right now.  Screw the flying cars joke everyone makes; the future is now.  (via)
• How to shutdown computer under Linux?  A rough summary of how Linux can be a moving target for actual usage.
• Vim 7.4 out, mostly so there isn’t so many patches to apply.
• Goto is making a comeback.  (via Eric Radman)

Your unrelated link of the week: Mighty Taco radio ads.  Mighty Taco is a Mexican fast food place from Buffalo, New York, USA.  It’s about as authentically Mexican as fast food from a city on the edge of Canada can be, which is ‘not much’.  I’ve always loved the food, though, and the commercials are just the right mix of amateur joke and commercial advertising.

Bonus unrelated: If you enjoy imgur/fukung but it’s not youtubey enough, hit ‘Random’ on IWantMoar.com a few times.  You may want to turn down your volume.