🌐 The boring web, ranting at remote work, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-12
By goz
The boring web
Although I blame Pinterest for making searches suck so hard, the idea that a majority of the sites create SEO optimized content for Google is intriguing.
Hmmm… An author slams remote work
Oh my, when you live in a glass house, you shouldn’t throw stones, but that is what Malcolm Gladwell got this past week. For some reasone he believes everyone should be back in the office, stat, and that work from home was for slackers. This is coming from a guy who writes for a living, literally working from any place that isn’t an office. Why would he even weigh in on the subject, let along slam the work ethic of millions of workers.
Internet Travels
Geek
- Sonic the Hedgehog doesn’t need easily legible legends on his mechanical keyboard | Ars Technica
- Now that's what I call a Hacker
- Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors | Ars Technica
- Nerdly Pleasures: Sears (Atari) Tele-games Pong vs Magavox Odyssey 100 - Battle of the First Pong Consoles
Retro
- Old Vintage Computing Research: The Pong you could program, possibly: the MOS 7600/7601
- The Founder of GeoCities on What Killed the ‘Old’ Internet
- Radio Shack’s First PC: 45 Years of TRS-80
- Rare Apple-1, said to be Woz-built, up for auction
- Life on the Internet: The Series - YouTube
- Pac-Man Movie Based on Video Game in the Works – The Hollywood Reporter
- 28 years later, Super Punch-Out!!’s 2-player mode has been discovered | Ars Technica
Videogames
- Steam Community :: Group :: Steam Client Beta
- DIY Tinycade aims to bring Alt Ctrl games to the masses | Ars Technica
- Microsoft claims Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to keep games off Xbox Game Pass - The Verge
- A new post added 2022-08-09-11-44
Technology
- Gen Z frustrated by helping Gen X, boomers with office tech
- Is it bad to give employees too many tech options? | Computerworld
- Winamp, the best MP3 player of the 1990s, just got a major update | Ars Technica
- Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows
- Musk wants public debate with Twitter CEO instead of that upcoming court trial | Ars Technica
- Some Epson Printers Programmed to Eventually Self-Brick
Science
Pop Culture
- NBC is moving Days of Our Lives behind the Peacock paywall after 57 years on free broadcast TV - The Verge
- WB Discovery merger strikes down “nearly finished” live-action Batgirl film | Ars Technica
- HBO Max gets Chip and Joanna Gaines but may lose what makes it special - The Verge
Pot Pourri
- Small businesses count cost of Apple’s privacy changes | Ars Technica
- How Generation Z became obsessed with subtitles
- A LEGO like you've never seen—look inside this month's scan.
- Twin mothers aren’t more fertile – just luckier