Two In One Day!

Paper and Pencil Games. Sprout is new to me...

Game Nerd MechE

Paging Brian: (GalagherVoice)Dice-O-Matic!

Unix Sixth Edition remastered

MIT created a copy of Unix Sixth Edition that targets x86 that they use for teaching operating systems.

Another 'blog this so it doesn't get lost in my bookmarks mess' post

Chess meets checkers - 'Chessers'

Standard chess setup, except that 4 pawns advance one step, and the resulting empty spaces on ranks 2 & 3 (7 & 6) get filled in with checkers (8 checkers per side vs the traditional 12.)

https://schwartztronica.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/checkmate-by-checkers/

Multiple variations listed. A followup post was promised but apparently never happened.

An intensive history of ADVENT with photo

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html This is a detailed history of the game, including a photo tour of the real cave and matching game trail

History repeated as farce

The modern equivalent of a station wagon full of 9-track tapes Amazon strikes again

Footshooting

The intersection of 'secure everywhere', 'drop insufficiently secure protocols', and running obsolete applications/operating systems: I can't read the following URL on my laptop. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf

Another pointless link post

Babbages Analytical Engine 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/contents.html

Another D*m Linkfest

Another random set of links, mostly via http://research.swtch.com

http://www.visual6502.org/

Includes visual simulations of a 6502 and a 6800 both written in JavaScript. Simulation is at the gate level and apparently includes propagation delays,

http://www.aturingmachine.com/

A physical implementation of a Turing Machine.

http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

Babbage's Difference engine.

Linotype (actually, one of their European counterparts, I think)

https://archive.org/details/Typesett1960
https://archive.org/details/Typesett1960_2

New York Times last print run on their Linotypes

https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu

Oh, look! It's not dead yet

Or, geek viewpoints for $600, Alex

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170214-00/?p=95425