It’s bizarre links week this week. Well, more than usual, I mean.
- The Infocom dump, via multiple places.
- Related: What is ZIL anyway?
- Techbros ruin eating, again.
- The Very Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination. I’ve mentioned Solarized before. (via)
- A fully reversible USB cable. (via)
- Brix System, life size LEGOs. (via)
- Useful/curious datasets. (also via)
- Cut / Fold Templates. Neat paper, neat interface, neat animations. (via)
- Quake is for everyone. (via)
- A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds.
- One reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days of V7 Unix.
- The Failure of the Great Tip-Free Restaurant Experiment. Linked because of the eternal truth of that last paragraph.
- Storage Performance Reference Guide: Interconnect Maximum Effective Data Rates. BSD site bit not BSD-related.
- Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement Of Curiosity episode eight – All Hail the War Mayor.
- Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement Of Curiosity episode nine – Titanfall.
- Efficiency Machines: The Operating System Recontextualized. It’s about a game.
- ArchiveBox. The open source self-hosted web archive. (via)
- Avoiding the gravity well of webbiness in gopher. (via)
- Retro web, simple web, and alternatives to the web. (via)
- I like the whole “computers-in-wood” asthetic [sic].
- Avalanche Noise Generator Notes.