Windows 3.1 Obscurities: Tandy’s Greatest Flop, Commodore’s Zombie https://tedium.co/2019/04/09/windows-3.1-obscurities
Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html
The unveiling of the new era name should be a meme template:
How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy
hmm, twtxt 1.2.3 includes “User-Agent:” in its user-agent string…
Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf
jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878
Introducing Weird Machines: ROP Differently Explaining part 1 - bin 0x29 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dcj19KGKWM
i’m going without a laptop for a week… i’m really excited about it and day 1 was great so far
GitHub - lunarlang/lunar: Lunar is a superset programming language of Lua 5.1, inspired by TypeScript and Ruby. https://github.com/lunarlang/lunar
Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893
Lua 5.1.4 Annotated Source https://stevedonovan.github.io/lua-5.1.4/
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research
Hier & Jetzt – Open Web 1: Wo das Open Web heute steht ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/52H
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It’s a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
GitHub - hrvach/fpg1: PDP-1 FPGA implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console. https://github.com/hrvach/fpg1
Parser types | rain-1.github.io https://rain-1.github.io/scheme-parse
The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys – Algorithm Soup https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/
Ghost in the Shell: The Major’s Body (1) - WWAC https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/07/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-1/
“Learn to Code”: The Twitter Meme Attacking Media - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power
Building A “Simple” Distributed System - Formal Verification — Jack Vanlightly https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2019/1/27/building-a-simple-distributed-system-formal-verification
📚 Finished reading Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry
GitHub - rain-1/single_cream: single file scheme interpreter with tail call optimization https://github.com/rain-1/single_cream
📚 Finished reading Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #1) by Stephen Fry
The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems
Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model
Competitive culture brings out the worst in scientists | The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/competitive-culture-brings-worst-scientists/?appsule=1&idfa=345AD11F-06FF-4308-B97F-69BE5AC9BC2A#.XEfs_qqRWnM
Alan Kay’s answer to Was the Xerox Alto a prototype or a finished product? - Quora https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Xerox-Alto-a-prototype-or-a-finished-product-1/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2
The good news about elderly people sharing so much fake news - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18176162/fake-news-old-people-nyu-study-silver-lining
1 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI
RFC-1 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1
📚 Finished reading Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov
📚 Finished reading Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov
EBN - GW1 part 1, Air War - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6XErLBrkA
Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html
Interview with Alan Kay | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1
GXemul - Documentation (0.6.1) http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#sprite
William Gibson | Part 1 | Jan. 12, 2012 | Appel Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFewCiRaGiU
- don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’
What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.
Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.
JSTOR: Access Check https://www.jstor.org/stable/40969483?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
@kas@enotty.dk to (1) he explained that phone numbers are too predictable to have any advantage by hashing and I don’t understand (2) as this might be a step to increase the xmpp user base.
Exploring the Amiga - Part 1 - The Digital Cat http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/05/28/exploring-the-amiga-1/