Mini theme this week: sound.

• Leave it to the phone companies to make simple ideas complex.
• Mini weather station with e-ink display.   A good use case.
• The Data Sonification Archive.  Data represented by sound.
• BOTTLED AUTHORS: The predigital dream of the audiobook.
• The Pixel Vision 8, for 8-bit games.
• Loop Hero, a roguelike where you build the map too?  (via)
• Kepler was once so wrong that he was right.
• List of split keyboards.  (via) 
• Resurrecting Fortran.  (via)
• The first(?) negative leap second might come in 2031.
• The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t.  (via)
• Remember optical disk caddies?  Ugh.
• How to Think Bayes.  This underpins what most people call “AI”.
• Rebuilding James Bond’s Apple IIc – A Software Forgery.  (via)
• Newsreader, free font for longer-form reading.  (via)