Slain @lain@otter.tube

The Extrasolar servers are shutting down on December 1st. If you still want to remote-pilot a rover to document the ecology of an alien planet, you've got a couple weeks left!

https://extrasolar.com/

25 years ago today, the first major web browser (Mosaic) was released as version 1.0.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/mosaic/versions

fuck what recipes say, measure garlic with your heart

Google has recently started automatically importing information from Google+ profiles into the contacts app on android (Google Contacts) based searching for accounts tied to that phone number. This information is comprehensive and can't be deleted by the user.

If you have an old Google+ profile laying around from pre-transition, then any old emails etc. containing your dead name might have been imported into the contacts of everyone who has your phone number for any reason

Blue Dianne #32545A
Caribbean Green #11DFB2

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feartune

@Manik [Image description: a chat screenshot.

"J'owo
Tu owos
Il owo
Nous owoins
Vous owoez
Ils owoent"

"Did you just
Conjugate
Owo
In french"

"owoui"]

THIS SURE IS A THING YOU CAN BUY NOW
https://www.redbubble.com/people/kavaeric/works/34905632-resist-the-cistem

With a profit margin of normally 25%+, I've set my margin to this to 2% and lower. Have at it!!

Dreaming of the ground

“It turns out making your own Zachtronics game is the most interesting Zachtronics game you can imagine” - @mcc, http://mcclure.github.io/qgcon-2018

OKAY I REVISED IT

THE FUTCH HEXAGON 2.0

Blumine #235C7A
Witch Haze #F9F897

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https://twitter.com/doom_txt/status/1057051505637781504

for years since randomly discovering it i have been enamored with this Doom II texture/sound mod some people made solely to express their anger at NBC for cancelling the 1994 sci-fi series "Earth 2"

GOOD FOLLOW-UP READING:

How drum memory works http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Basis/magnetic_drum.html

Spec for the Blackjack game (note the description of switch 32, which describes the behaviour they ASKED for, not what they got) http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/royalPrecision/RPC-4000/programWriteups/W1-01.0_Blackjack_Game.pdf

The manual for the RPC-4000 https://ia601602.us.archive.org/14/items/bitsavers_royalPrecirogrammingManual_8537458/RPC-4000_Programming_Manual.pdf

WebTV, Windows 98 SE

Big mood

A handy guide to Bay Area transit operators: