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Certainly we should celebrate Morodor here too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY

https://cfcr.ca/ Lots of community radio still out there! I assume bigger cities would have a solid live music and radio community too.

For me the height of the 16-bit era was Final Fantasy VI, but wow was Phantasy Star IV great. The intro, the savage twang of those Genesis basslines, the aesthetics, it was really …

I think we all deserve a little break right now.

I saw DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Afrika Bambaataa tribute and it was just outstanding. One of the best shows I've seen and some seriously talented people. Then I learned more abou…

A disc looks like a disc, and a disk doesn't look like a disc.

I think Aldous Huxley said it well: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/614121-it-s-dark-because-yo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice_2000 was pretty clear about what it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX less so.

Frank Zappa made his (similar) feelings pretty clear. https://genius.com/The-mothers-of-invention-who-needs-the-pe...

I watched Home Alone last year and the characters call each other names constantly. It's funny for sure, but no wonder me and my friends had such filthy mouths as kids. You grow up…

Very very cool! Every time I look at building a hot gaming PC I think to myself that I'm just going to play SNES games and Elden Ring, so what's the point? Something like this woul…

I still have the 2600 issues before and after 9/11. At the time it was pretty clear that the federal government was going make a large and permanent power grab.

I might be overstating it, but here's what I see at my company. "Sell" is very different in all of these situations. - Sell to the champion. - Sell to the rest of the org. - Sell t…

Love to see some Might and Magic articles. Earlier this year I found a boxed copy of Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen on Marketplace. Everything is in the box and it's all pristi…

The Beatles had it right with Eleanor Rigby. "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" There are a lot of sad people ou…

Came here for the Uniform function call syntax link. This is one of the little choices that has a big impact on a language! I love it! I wrote a little pipeline macro in https://ni…

Robert Heinlein really nailed it in the 50s with the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation in Stranger in a Strange Land. Totally prescient vision of what Christianity + America w…

Or play Wizardry and be so full of despair. :)

That was a thing! Boingboing had an article about it, but it looks like the original tumblr is no longer around. https://boingboing.net/2014/03/09/garfield-without-garfields...

I'd like to submit Time is a Flat Circus as well https://www.tumblr.com/timeisaflatcircus

I got a few months of free Kagi with a Pragmatic Engineer newsletter subscription and I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of old Google before it got polluted. Kagi can't do anything ab…

Well, it is difficult and a lot of work. Maybe _you_ can help.

The box it came in probably tastes better.

Sometimes I read a paper or see some code that makes me think that wizards are real and that they walk among us.

After my (closed) gaming laptop started making annoying Windows noises earlier today, I'm led to believe that it doesn't work properly on Windows either. It seems like it's basical…