Smiling Savage Kiosk #3

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

Tom Wanat

Feb 11, 2022

Kepler poster — 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
2:08 PM ∙ Feb 6, 2022
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This classic synthesizer looks amazing.
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR
It’s home now time to make a vid!
10:13 AM ∙ Feb 6, 2022
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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?
7:23 PM ∙ Feb 9, 2022
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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.
5:50 AM ∙ Feb 9, 2022
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That art!
Bill Lange @BillLange1968
12:53 AM ∙ Feb 8, 2022
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A nice collection of classic Macintoshes.
I Am Seb 👨🏻‍💻 @sebastien_bour
A little change, the Macintosh SE30 gives way to the Macintosh 512k 😄
10:52 PM ∙ Feb 5, 2022
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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.
6:37 PM ∙ Feb 4, 2022
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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)
5:12 AM ∙ Feb 1, 2022
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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
6:44 PM ∙ Feb 4, 2022
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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”.