Unofficial accidental “time” theme this week.  Also charts!

• “GlitchPEG is perhaps the first screen saver that’s excellent at detecting buffer overflow exploits.”  XScreenSaver  5.4 is out.
• Arguably the same topic: A Brief History of Generative Art.  (via)
• “Update: After 87 hours, I stopped waiting.“
• On the Virtues of Terseness.
• The Emperor’s New Tools?: pragmatism and the idolatry of the web.  (via many places)
• wideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games.   Nice technical explanation. (via)
• PaperTTY, an e-ink terminal emulator.  Note that it’s running on solar power in some of the pictures.  (via)
• Time is crazy, part 1: Working with Timezones.  With graphs!  (via)
• Time makes us crazy, part 2: Higgins Time.
• Time is poorly defined even now, part 3: [tz] Mozambique officially uses LMT?
• Takeaways from SIGGRAPH 2018.  (via)
• Related: Technical Papers Preview: SIGGRAPH 2018.
• Metasploit+Amazon SES, or debugging Sendmail’s SMTP Authentication.  Debugging SMTP when it’s encrypted.  (via)
• Dogbot.
• The Curta Calculator, which I’ve mentioned before.
• The Pudding, where I’ve linked before, but I didn’t realize how much data research/visualization there was on the site.  (via)