Smiling Savage Kiosk #3

A list of related, tangental, inspirational, or completely random links shared from this week's browser history

Grab this poster from NASA

Music

• This week’s earworm: Reckless by Leathers

• Simply wonderful!

  Nandi Bushell @Nandi_Bushell

  This one is for you Professor. I wanted to try a @rushtheband song that would really challenge me. I watched an interview were Neil Peart said Tom Sawyer 'remains so difficult to play'. So I thought I would give it a try. It's actually really fun to play youtu.be/JaPPVioejBw

• This classic synthesizer looks amazing.

  LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR

  It’s home now time to make a vid!

  

Computing

• Mac Source Ports is such a valuable labor of love to run old games on new Apple-silicon Macs. I’m looking forward to trying some Marathon, Diablo, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

• How close are we to having quantum computers that can break 256-bit encryption? Not very.

• I recommend supporting this Patreon for the author of the Applesauce project to any retro enthusiast.

• Flappy Mac is a new game for classic Macintoshes.

• I recommend Joe’s Computer Museum for all your BlueSCSI needs.

• Here’s a pretty set-up of classic Macs for retro networking. I don’t remember seeing those tilt/swivel stands before.

  Garth Beagle @GarthBeagle

  Got the Macintosh SEs all setup for some multiplayer Maze Wars+ action. What are some other good networkable games for these classic Macs?

  

• I completely agree that the Apple IIC is one of the most beautiful computer systems ever made.

  PierreNick @PierreNick

  Finally purchased an Apple IIc monitor and stand! The Apple IIc still looks to me like a computer from the future. One of those concepts that could never exist. One of the most beautiful computer system ever made.

• That art!

  Bill Lange @BillLange1968

  

• A nice collection of classic Macintoshes.

  I Am Seb 👨🏻‍💻 @sebastien_bour

  A little change, the Macintosh SE30 gives way to the Macintosh 512k 😄

  

• This is one of a kind — truly. Click through to see the beautiful leather case.

  Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits

  XYZ Electronics Micro-Portable all buttoned up and working fine. Replaced RIFA cap, filtered power plug, cleaned up the floppy drive and remade the foam pads for the keyboard.

  

Photography

• Mesmerizing.

Abandoned America @abandonedameric

I know my place

Writing

• Enter two themes at Narrative Device and an AI will write a first paragraph of a story.

  Rodolfo Ocampo @_RodolfoOcampo

  Dear English-speaking friends, As part of my PhD, I'm researching human-AI creative interaction. I created a little tool where you can write two themes and see the beginning of a story come alive. You can try it here: narrative-device.herokuapp.com (1/2)

  

• Great quote by the developer of C and co-creator of UNIX. It’s true of writing code, words, or music, in my opinion.

  Cornell Tech @cornell_tech

  Happy birthday to Ken Thompson, co-creator of the UNIX operating system and developer of the C programming language. #otd (v/ @ComputerHistory) bit.ly/3rbNQrD

  

• I can relate. It can be easy to get caught up in the flaw of ones projects. I try to focus on doing my best and having fun. One can improve along the journey.

Sarah Jane Avory @SarahJaneAvory

Sometimes I feel that what I'm doing isn't that great, that I could do much better... But I'm pretty sure that's just the curse of a creative mind, the desire to do better. All I can say is I always do my very best, and will keep on doing so.🙂Besides, this is a lot of fun!😃

• Stories of women of Color in STEM from the Smithsonian Science Education Center.

PlanetariumFriends @FrnzPlanetarium

The great people at @SmithsonianScie Smithsonian Science Education Center have put together a great FREE book on Women of Color in #STEM You can get a copy at

ssec.si.eduStories of Women of Color in STEM

Gaming

• An easy way to load games from a MicroSD card to a Playstation 2 via the memory card port? Shut up and take my money.

• Speaking of which, could a mini PS2 be on the horizon?

• No Man’s Sky is coming for the Nintendo Switch. The Switch is such a great machine to kick back with and relax, this should be good fun.

• And Joe Danger on iOS — from the same studio as No Man’s Sky — is worth a look.

• This portable Sega Dreamcast looks amazing.

• Here’s a fun look at retro game Master of the Lamps on both the Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL.

• There’s a Golden Axe mod for Doom.

• Wordle now exists for the Palm Pilot and the Gameboy (and Analogue Pocket)

• Yup. Pretty much.

Doug Strider 🚀 @DougStrider

Electrified transportation

• Here’s a neat resource to gauge the distance one can travel via a given mode of transportation over an amount of time. This is the result I got for “bike” and think it will be fascinating to see this tool updated to include “e-bike”.