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

Sympathetic Magic for four year olds

Sympathetic magic

Computer nerds with kids...

Another link of interest

Mostly posting these here instead of bookmarking them.

Torture your friends' geographical knowledge:

http://xkcd.com/1653

Blast from the past

Analog computers for dummies: Introduction to fire control computers 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

Sarcasm: It's just another service we offer.

Sofware Engineers vs Civil Engineers

Via:

Another Software Engineers Mockery

Rants Redux

This:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

Elder Days - Hardware from beyond the grave

Two words:  "Drive A:"

Really, don't do that

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

Also,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6579844/how-does-algorithm-text-work

Public Service Announcement

For those of you who like to have your bodies permanently marked with ink, and who find Asian culture of interest, the following educational resources are provided:

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.co.at/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html 

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-set-of-gibberish-english.html

That is all

Back from the grave

Just another insane hardware hack:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

Via

https://plus.google.com/108967323530519754654/posts/JjMVDsT6LUm

This week on Hoarders...

Actually, what little of that show that I've seen makes me think I'd really hate it if I gave it a chance.

But this guy fits the profile.

Uncle Miod's machineroom