Links ahoy!
Things that have impressed or stupefied this week. Entirely Sony Rootkit-free, that subject has been discussed and dissed to the death already.
- A remake of the classic Prisoner show has been proposed. With most of the cool/unique bits removed with surgical precision.
- Sam Peckinpah’s marvellous ode to the end of the western era, The Wild Bunch, finally gets a decent dvd treatment. The current version is an ancient flipper, and this update is much appreciated.
- Hell must be freezing over: an interesting Microsoft Blog.
- The third Ben Schott’s Miscellany book will soon be out in finnish.
- A finnish google maps blog. Now the question on where a hole drilled from Helsinki through the centre of the Earth would surface on the other side can finally be settled.
- A definitive list of 100 best board games ever. Backgammon and go are present among the commercial games, but chess is conspicuously absent. Or my search-fu is weak.
- Someone with a decent amount of time in his hands has implemented a UNIX-lookalike virtual machine in Javascript. It even has a functional vi in it. Redirection seems to be misbehaving, but it’s a hack-y achievement nonetheless.
- Risto Isomäki’s Sarasvatin Hiekka is shortlisted for the Finlandia-award. But with the decision done by our ex-prime minister and all around master grouch, I don’t think that a science fiction book has no chance of success. But who knows, maybe Paavo is a recovering trekkie, now on a serious B5-binge.
- Google analytics started working, but clearly the launch capacity needs were vastly under-estimated.
- The search terms that reach the Lavonardo HQ are lame, when compared to those of benrope.
Ok, so it’s NOT rootkit free, but this image is way too clever to miss out on. Sue me.
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