This is the Lazy Reading mix I like – some history, some commentary.

• How to make your Unix prompts more useful and interesting.
• An exploration of the mtr utility.
• Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine. (via)
• SMS cards: The technology inside IBM’s 1960s mainframes.  (via)
• Vim is a Game.  (via)
• DoS by lightbulb.  (via)
• Public vs. private cloud.
• Euclid’s algorithm in the Shell.  (via)
• The Joys of Unix – Cryptolog in 1978  (via)
• The Web’s Grain.
• The day the rabbits died.
• How many IP addresses can a DNS query return?  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Perfect cup of tea renders all other tea pointless.  A sloppy joke, so let me share these recipes for masala chai and hobnobs instead.  I’m hungry.