Oddities this week.

• Join the Interim Computer Museum.  (via)
• containerization moves the learning period from “before deployment” to “during outages”  I’m quoting a quote of a quote there.
• public.work, visually search public domain images.  (via)
• And if you like that, read The mining of the public domain, an excellent analysis of public.work.
• A (Very) Brief Pictorial History of Beholders.  Avery D&D-specific monster.
• defrag98.com.  Never a good screen to see.  (via)
• EuroBSDCon 2024 will be September 19-22 in Dublin.
• Leap smears, a proposal.  “My back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that this scheme would work for about half a millennium”
• Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple.  (via)
• Visualizing Sound and Graphic Traces, both are.na channels.  (via)
• What the Microsoft Outage Reveals.  Read it for the software engineering joke.  (via)
• Back to BASIC.  (also via)
• The Adler Archive of Underground Comix.  (via)
• Putting your phone to sleep with a pillow.  (via)

Your unrelated music videos for the day: DRASS – Reaperman.  Taking advantage of AI image generation’s inaccuracy, though you bet is more disturbing.  (via)