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[22:08] A mechanical implementation of Conway's Game of Life, built using Lego. Also recommend a look at the other videos on this channel. (see also, see also)
[00:43] This website has a collection of websites with dumb password rules. (see also)
[00:23] Since websites began using "AI" to write articles I guess it will only be a matter of time until someone comes up with a trust seal that promises zero AI participation. Which, of course, will be as untrustworthy as all these other seals.
[22:43] Oh, very cool: this 404 page contains a text adventure. Was fun to play. (I'm a little torn between "a status page should be obvious" and "let's make our websites more fun", but I really like the idea.)
[19:25] With the whole world interconnected visiting servers and websites all over the planet has become commonplace. But getting an email from someone on the other side of the big pond still feels special.
[21:55] Linger collects the SSIDs of wifi networks passing devices try to connect to and re-broadcasts them, keeping an impression of previous visitors. Nice.
[23:23] Occlusion Grotesque is a font based on letters carved in a tree, altered by the growth of that tree. (via)
[22:40] What would DNA sound if synthesized to an audio file?
[00:41] I was looking forward to Return to Monkey Island, but this game did not live up to my expectations. Seemed unpolished in parts, the last part was pretty annoying and the ending was lousy.
By the way, this was only the second time in my life that I bought and played a game on release day, but in both cases the game in question was disappointing. Next time I get this urge I should remember this.
[22:07] Awww, cute. Cat as a service.
[21:58] The Computer Game Museum in Berlin has a PainStation. I played Pong on this device a few years ago. As it turns out, it runs Windows XP. I guess having it slap my fingers multiple times that day is XP getting back at me for constantly cursing it back when I used it. :D
[22:16] Virtual Machine to Mondrian by ZLDKM generates artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian based on incoming network traffic.
[23:12] The RSS feed was missing the publication date. I'm not sure why I left it out in the first place, probably because every entry has date and time included anyway. Either way, the tag is included now.
[23:08] The world's oldest working digital computer is called WITCH. This article contains a video that show it start up.
[22:48] The Floppotron has been upgraded. Big time. (see also, via)
[21:28] Here is a PC speaker playing "Für Elise". And here is an explanation for this behaviour.
[22:28] A functional Lego 2U rack server almost built to scale. Neat.
[20:47] I choose to believe that fonts that make it hard to distinguish between some characters (like 1 and l) are a product of pure spite.
[05:22] Glitch art sculptures. I would have preferred to directly link to the artist's website, but due to some JavaScript fuckery I can't link to the specific gallery.
[22:38] Ron Gilbert announced Return to Monkey Island. I am very hyped.
[04:37] I mentioned that I like to customize my desktop for fun, but it looks like I can now reason that using a non standard theme counts as a security measure. :)