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.