This week, the links are generally fun.

• Hey, can this work on BSD?  Cause this.  (yeah, I know, hype.)
• PC emulator in Javascript.  Here’s how.  From the same fellow who produced qemu.  Here’s another level on top of that.
• Michael Lucas has a summary of his experience at BSDCan 2011.  His third point – anyone can experiment and publish results – is something I’d like to see.  I love graphs, and I love being able to see quantifiable results.
• The many slides for ’10 years of pf’, also from BSDCan 2011, are online.  (via)   The background images are entertaining, though it’s using that font.  Slide 78 mentions that other BSDs have much older versions of pf.  I think DragonFly’s running the newest old version of any of them, actually, though the slide doesn’t mention it.
• There’s Gnome people saying “Ignore everything that isn’t Linux“.  No, wait, it’s not that bad!
• The history of the computer mouse.  Something I’d always heard about, but not with this detail.
• Git aliases.  I don’t think it’ll save you hours of your life as the author claims, but it may be handy.
• How to build your own gaming PC.  The author went for funny and true, rather than the multipage exposition of out-of-date numbers and graphs that usually make up these articles.
• Where the octothorpe came from.  It has to do with Unix and telephones, which are close to the same thing if you go back far enough.
• Speaking of Unix-ish stuff, here’s an interview with Ken Thompson, who recently won the Japan Prize for the creation of Unix, along with Dennis Richie.  (via)  Yes, it’s their fault!
• “First was viruses, second was malware, third is facebook.“