Smiling Savage Kiosk #5

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

A perfect meme recreation released by Spider-Man: No Way Home

Photography

• This tweet got me to thinking about 1-bit art…

Richard (Jeep era) @halkyardo

experimenting with the original Mac 512x342 1-bit screen format, and honestly, I'm loving it

• And I found myself looking up more about dithering, the process of using a small color palate to simulate a larger one. I didn’t know there’s still modern code to create 1-bit dithered images too. Here’s one I made.

• Want more black and white dithered images? You can run MacPaint in your browser, or create your own with Dither it on the Web, or BitCam on iOS

Music

• You’ve got to love a Saxophone plug-in with a big dial labeled “SEX”…

• Cometsong is a neat little song on the Apple II…

• New to me, this Sweet Dreams + White Stripes mashup is really well done…

• This week’s earworms:

  • Love You to Death by Fickle Friends…

• Celebrity Skin by Doja Cat…

Retro Computing

• #MARCHintosh is right around the corner — a neat idea to rally content creation on the topic of classic Macintoshes during the month of March.

• Speaking of which, it’s pretty cool to see that there are projects for re-created Macintosh SE boards, and compatible yet enhanced SE/30 boards for restoration projects.

• Here’s a great write up about the Atari 800XL.

• And a deep-dive into the In-Store Demonstration Program cartridge…

• This is an interesting look at the Atari Panther, an unreleased console that would have been slotted between the 7800 and the Jaguar…

Gaming

• Wordle ports now out for:

  • Wordle! for Netscape (useful for all types of retro computing!)

  • Windle for Windows for Windows 3.1

• Peasant’s Quest, an irreverent spin on the classic King’s Quest made by Homestar Runner is being ported to Apple II

• This new Timex Space Invaders themed watch is sick.

Writing

• Funniest thing I read all week…

phil @PhilJamesson

i never should have gone back to school

Electric Transportation

• More about Specialized’s integration of radar into their bike computer…

• Another Specialized Turbo Vado seen carrying things…

Michelle Brideau | One Less Car @cycling_woman

Order drop with the Specialized Turbo Vado e-bike 👍

• Nice before-and-after look protected bike lanes on a busy road…

Daniel Moser @_dmoser

Toronto 🇨🇦 Before Vs. After installing a protected 🚲 bike lane. The difference good infrastructure makes 👇👇 🎥 @mkapral