Geek links
January 11th, 2006
Lets start off the new year slowly. Links for geeks:
- Folklore.org is a wonderful archive of stories about the production of the original Apple Mac. Read about Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field:
In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
Many, many more interesting and amusing stories inside. Fond memories abound as Robotpappa used to bring home an Apple Mac from the BT pool for Robotperson to MacPaint on and play Airborne! back in the 80’s.
- The Guardian’s top 20 Geek novels. 13/20 for Robotperson, with one on the shelf. Guess that’s a few for my wish list, then.
- Fuzzy D-20. Dispatch that clay golem looming in the rear-view (I said they were geek links)
- Love this Tiki tissue dispensor, but then anything that resembles the moai level in Gradius gets my vote.
- Nerd TV, courtesy of Robotperson favourite columnist, Robert X Cringely. Now showing: Doug Englebart.
Doug invented computer networks, time sharing, graphical user interfaces, and the mouse–all while driving to work one day in 1951. Really.
- Japanese smileys
- The 10 most puzzling ancient artifacts. I remember seeing the Antikythera Mechanism on Arthur C. Clarke’s mysterious world, waaay back. It’s easy to forget how mindblowing all that stuff was back then.
- Looks like I missed a meme. Leeeeeroy Jenkins! (Wikipedia explains).
