This is a good mix this week.

• Can Data Die?  Tracking the Lenna Image.  I’ve linked to other stories about this image before.  (lost the source link, sorry)
• A Close Look at a Spinlock.
• The Monstrosity Email Has Become.  (via)
• FURBY MODULE – A Synthesizer Module That Houses A Furby.  The synth itself is worth a look.  (via)
• The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95.
• Oh, great, there’s a year 2028 problem too.  (via)
• The history of writing in 1.5 hours.
• Upstairs, Downstairs: d20 Power Relations.
• Faces of Open Source.  Doug McIlroy looks like Otto Mentalis from Psychonauts 2.  Coincidence?  (via)
• Fermentabot 1.0 and a data-collecting version.
• New Brothers Quay film on the way.  (via)
• Tindie, a maker market site.  Interesting niche products.  Found via this story.

No minitheme this week.

• userland: a book about the command line for humans.  Indirectly, a description of how flexible a shell really is.  (via)
• More x220 hacking.  It is of course less useful over time.  (both via)
• Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine.  Simple upgrades help too.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2012: Howling Dogs.  Porpentine!
• Companies and their stewardship of open source projects.
• Your SMART drive database of attribute meanings needs regular updates.
• Kino Cult.  Good films and BADFILMS.  (via)
• AI Weirdness, oddball AI results.  (via, via)
• Floppy emulators.  More used than you may realize.  (via)
• Software Folklore.  I’ve linked to some of these stories before.  (via)
• Obsessive keyboard building.  Sorry, it’s a Twitter thread.  (via)
• Forgotten Image Formats.

I need a D&D tag.

• The World of Outdoor Survival.  A reconstruction of the original D&D environment.  (via)
• Speaking of the original D&D…  (via)
• How X Window Managers Work, And How To Write One (Part I).  (via)
• Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator.  (via)
• ClockWork DevTerm.  For portable Dwarf Fortress.  (via)
• PowerPC notebook Prototypes Updates and next Talks – October 2021.  (via)
• Cosmic Conquest (1982) – A resurrection of a realtime strategy game written in Forth.  (via)
• How brutalist design is taking over the internet.  (via)
• Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more.  (via)
• I am ambivalent about this joke/keyboard.  (via)
• TinkerDifferent.  (via)

Spooky Reading!

• Empowering People … and Their Things.
• Stillfleet, a tabletop game with space hulks.  Not Space Hulk, though.  The character generator is fun.  (via)
• The slab and the permacomputer.
• We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly.
• Casio IRC.  (via)
• Vintage computer pictures.  (also via)
• You use more open source software than you think.
• To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before.  Of course Vint Cerf dresses that well, and here’s the poster he’s holding.  (via)
• Repetition, In Four Parts.  Linked cause of the regex explanation.
• The First Modern Drum Machine.  (via)
• Juncture, for visual essays.  Created originally to talk about plants, of all things.  (via)
• 50 Watts, and 50 Watt Books.  (via)
• The ENIAC Monte Carlo program from 1947 on a poster.  The first stored instruction program ever.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2011: Nested.
• Space probe software bug.  17 years to Y2038.
• Skip songs by looking.

Your unrelated music of the week: OV / ER / LO / AD from the Kleptones.  The last two are linked but not yet released, so if they don’t work yet, come back in a week.