No theme this week, but some neat history items.
- Modern cactus.
- Winamp goes open source. (via)
- Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159. (via)
- Next NYCBUG meeting: June 5th. It’ll be a post-BSDCan recap.
- “udm=14” is now useful for Google searches much like you had to turn on literal search to avoid ‘helpful’ spelling fixes.
- The Nature of Shareware. Mentioned: Ambrosia Software, a former local company. Not mentioned: the 1-2% pay rate for shareware, if you’re lucky.
- When you’re driving in Google Maps you’re re-enacting an ancient space combat sim.
- A history of Spelljammer. (via)
- Archie, rediscovered. (via)
- Retro tech in anime supercut. (via)
- sshd(8) is getting split.