I cleared my tab backlog, but I still have a RSS backlog to work through here.  Please be patient as I post a crapton of links and still don’t make it to the end.

• Close Your Open Tabs.  Linked because I didn’t know about tab pinning, and it’s super handy.
• BINAC: A Brief Look Back. (video)  Mercury delay line memory, which provoked a “how does that even work” reaction in me.  (via)
• “So you want to make a TUI…”  Terminal Text User Interface, if you didn’t realize.  (via)
• Explaining the ‘mystery’ of numbers stations.  (via)
• Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps.  (via)
• Exhibiting The Hobbit: A tale of memories and microcomputers.  (via)
• The Hobbit, via a comment on the previous link source.
• De-google-ify Internet: List of Alternatives.  Even if you are not specifically trying to avoid Google, it’s a handy mapping of application to need.   (via)
• A brief history of the numeric keypad.  (via)
• Myst, 25 years old.
• Mailing lists vs Github.  People view Github somewhat benignly, but it’s still a company with diverging interests from the people who use it for free hosting.
• The printer that wouldn’t print: Fixing an IBM 1401 mainframe from the 1960s.
• These Books.  Vintage books and posters, modified.
• Haiku R1/beta1 has been released.  (via)
• Most common ingredients by cuisine.  Graphs!  (via)
• Your Calendrical Fallacy Is…  (via)
• “UNIX is a disaster…”  (via)

Your unrelated listening of the week: The Best Metal on Bandcamp: September 2018.  Witch Ripper and Pig Destroyer are pretty fun, both to listen to and to say.