🌟 Finding love at the Star Wars premiere, learning about the Scream Test, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-25
By goz
Internet Travels
Geek
- 5-25-77 - Trailer - YouTube
- Paramount Announces 'Demastered Edition' of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Voyager - ExtremeTech
- Nerdly Pleasures: Re-Modding a Game Boy
- 10 KB Club
Retro
- A Secret Apple Silicon Extension to Accommodate an Intel 8080 Artifact - Byte Cellar
- Farewell, My Lovely! | The New Yorker - Ode to the Model T
- TinyLlama Is A 486 In Your Pocket | Hackaday
- “Just a bunch of idiots having fun”—a photo history of the LAN party | Ars Technica
- A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together | Ars Technica
Videogames
- Eminem Almost Starred in 'Grand Theft Auto' Film | HYPEBEAST
- The Deleted City 3.1
- The History of NBA Jam - Arcade console documentary - YouTube
- Is Ubisoft thwarting cheaters with “100 versions” of Rainbow Six Siege? | Ars Technica
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet deliver a fully open world beset by technical problems | Ars Technica
- FOSS Patents: Google paid Activision Blizzard King $360 million for remaining on Google Play Store and not starting its own Android app store, Epic Games’ amended complaint reveals
- There’s a “new” Atari arcade game, and I can’t put it down | Ars Technica
- 10 years later, the Wii U is still deeply weird—and we love it | Ars Technica
- IFComp 2022 - Interactive Fiction
Technology
- What is a Scream Test - Virtual Wiki
- The Man Behind Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, Built It for This Moment | WIRED
- Meta keeps booting small-business owners for being hacked on Facebook | Ars Technica
- feedle - It’s a world of feeds!
- Twitter is Going Great!
- Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh
- New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled | Ars Technica
- I’m sad to report that Fred Brooks has died this day. @ComputerHistory
- Platypus - Create Mac apps from command line scripts
- Create slides in Portrait mode on PowerPoint for iOS
- Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year | Ars Technica
- Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid | Ars Technica
Science
- Objects We Thought Were Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes, Scientists Say
- processed foods key to rising obesity study finds - The University of Sydney
- Scientists may have found something unfathomably massive living under Antarctica | BGR
- How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse? — Practical Engineering
Pop Culture
- Diamond White - Moon Girl Magic (From "Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur") - YouTube - This theme song SLAPS!
Pot Pourri
- Federal government ordered removal of New Jersey’s witty highway signs. What about the ones in Texas? | KXAN Austin
- Lego Ohio Stadium on display just in time for ‘The Game’ | NBC4 WCMH-TV