🌞 The lazy days of summer - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-15
By goz
Another week, and another This Geek in Review. Very little commentary from me this week, just a bunch of links that I found interesting.
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Internet Travels
Geek
- Disney Releases First Original, Unedited Star Wars Trilogy Footage
- This DOOM 3 Unreal Engine 5 Fan Version With Original Music and Sound Effects Is Utterly Impressive
- The Obi-Wan Kenobi 4 Hour Feature Supercut - I've completed my 4K HDR (and 1080p) Extended Kenobi cuts, complete with De-Aged Hayden, Recut Leia chase scenes, and an extended prologue! See the "Rematch of the Century" between Kenobi and Vader in one epic sitting! : NumeralJoker
- GitHub - Pakequis/Raspberry-pi-TV-sim: Code and hardware for simulate a channel change in a old tube TV
- Ready Player One – Lee H Pappas - A.N.A.L.O.G. magazine in Ready Player One
- The Mighty Bowser™ 71411 | LEGO® Super Mario™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
Retro
- Tom Pittman on HyperCard, Programming, and Operating Systems
- CompileIt! for Hypercard
- Here’s an original Nintendo Game Boy ‘DMG’ but in the Advance orientation - The Verge
- Arcade with over 80 games to open on Las Vegas Strip
- Disk Jockey - Manage all sorts of disk images for a retro mac from a modern mac.
- Jaromaz's MacintoshPi Turns a Raspberry Pi Into a Fast, Feature-Packed Classic Apple Mac Emulator - Hackster.io
- Amazon leaks Genesis Mini 2—Sega immediately confirms its October 27 launch | Ars Technica
- Old Vintage Computing Research: CP/M is (more) officially open source
- The Xbox Series X will now run one of the best retro versions of Windows - The Verge
Videogames
Technology
- EV owners won’t be able to pick their own low-speed noise after NHTSA scraps proposal - The Verge
- How the YouTube Creator Economy Works - YouTube
- No, BMW is not making heated seats a subscription for US cars | Ars Technica
- SpaceX starts testing its Super Heavy booster, and it’s “not good” | Ars Technica
- Lofi Girl is back online after ‘abusive’ copyright strikes - The Verge
- Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals | Uber | The Guardian
- After 15 Years, Apple Is Finally Adding an Iconic Feature to the iPhone. It's a Nod to Steve Jobs | Inc.com
- Meta removes Facebook account mandate from Quest VR—but is that enough? | Ars Technica
Science
- Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response | Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago
- Dinosaurs Took Over Amid Ice, Not Warmth, Says a New Study of Ancient Mass Extinction - The Fourth Extinction
- Polarized light reveals final fate of a star “spaghettified” by a black hole | Ars Technica
- Proof that Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance decades ahead of his time | John Innes Centre
- And then there were five: NASA releases the rest of Webb’s first images | Ars Technica
- NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet | NASA
- Why Walking on Legos Hurts More Than Walking on Fire or Ice
Pop Culture
- New Emojis In 2022-2023
- Indian farmers streamed fake pro cricket matches to Russian bettors for two weeks - The Verge
- An IndieWire Exclusive: "Golden Girls 3033" pilot conceived of and directed by Mike Hollingsworth - YouTube
Pot Pourri
- Geeking with Greg: Making it more difficult to shill recommender systems
- Did People Used To Look Older? - YouTube
- Meet the Geoguessr player who only needs .1 seconds to be right | Georainbolt Interview - YouTube
- The Day Disco Died: Remembering the Unbridled Chaos of "Disco Demolition Night" - EDM.com - The Latest Electronic Dance Music News, Reviews & Artists
- PSA: Lego is raising prices, and these 40 sets cost up to $70 more if you wait - The Verge
- Automakers Are Starting to Drop AM Radio in New Cars. Here's Why