💲 The economics of Emperor Palpatine's Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-12
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Internet Travels
Geek
- It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill
- Stefan Wagner's DiskMaster64 Is a Compact, Low-Cost USB Adapter for Commodore IEC Floppy Drives - Hackster.io
- Luke’s Awakening fan art merges Star Wars with Zelda to delightful 8-bit effect | Ars Technica
- You can now run Windows 11 virtual machines in GPU memory | TechSpot
Retro
- Atari Legend Howard Scott Warshaw Recalls Company's "History" In Pixel Ripped 1978 Trailer - GameSpot
- These are some of the error messages produced by Apple’s MPW C compiler
- GitHub - davidgiven/cpm65: CP/M for the 6502
- ‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’: The Untold History of Apple II Software Piracy
- WordStar Reborn | Hackaday
Videogames
- Fighting Games History [Part 2]: from 1990 to 1993 - YouTube
- PC Gamers Are Getting Angry At All The Wrong People
- Atari Announces Acquisition of M Network Atari 2600 Titles and Related Trademarks
- Rare Set Of Pokémon Cards Gets Appraised On Antiques Roadshow
Technology
- CERN celebrates 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web • The Register
- Why Does Your Smartphone Need a Screen Protector, Anyway?
- Google is searching for answers: 25 years of Search - The Verge
- Wendy’s tests an AI chatbot that takes your drive-thru order - The Verge
Science
- Mathematicians Found Something Mind-Blowing About the Number 15
- Rover Spots Possible Evidence of Liquid Water on Modern Mars
- How music can prevent cognitive decline - Press Release - UNIGE
- Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees | Nature Communications
Pop Culture
- The Writers' Strike Guarantees Another Wave of Terrible Blockbusters
- An amazing auction for a wide variety of TV and movies memorabilia
- ‘Bizarro World’ - The Boston Globe
- MTV News Shuts Down, Paramount Lays Off 25% of Networks, Studios Group - Variety
Pot Pourri
- Meh: Nothing is lacking: the long history of intentionally blank pages
- Free Notion Template | Free Notion Template Productivity Planner
- the art of non-conformity blog - How to Be Unremarkably Average