Rackmount computers made cute! Half-width 10" racks.

1994 complications involving MCOM, University of Illinois, and Mosaic code that may have ended up in Netscape

Nice use of stacked graphs to visualize climate change

A whole subreddit of shitposts on the theme that Portugal is more like Eastern Europe

9th century automaton may have had the first stored program for a machine, a cylinder triggering notes on a flute

An interactive text UI for systemd for Linux

Appreciation of the trans character on the 1990s Twin Peaks. I didn't love the character myself but this essay makes some good points.

2016 essay about a 90 year old man marrying a man of age 40, after a lifetime of a loving relationship with his wife

Practical instructions for protecting yourself from Meta surveillance

Very detailed polling returns, albeit partial

A deeper critical reading of David Lynch's film that on the surface looks like a sweet and sentimental story

Artwork, Arabic calligraphy. Photo doesn't do it justice, it's a subtle changing scrim of beads that reveals Kufic writing as you move around it

Paris street artist has an enormous stencil at a hotel in Houston

Houston West African restaurant, food is real good

Justin Watt on his post-software-engineer career as a handyman building things for people

A thoughtful essay on the problematic use of the term "Cargo cult" in the tech community

Spot in China for calibrating satellite and airplane cameras. Includes color

Music, a sort of metal / baroque mashup with heavy videogame influences

San Francisco stree artists, pasteups featuring a Shiba Inu andlots of mushrooms

A list of little-known feeds for various web products

Articles about transferring data from a service to another service, like Wordpress to Squarespace or getting out of Facebook

Artisanal information collection in Brooklyn, NY

Matt Haughey wrote a book about touring all 14 women's soccer stadiums

An island in Japan with a huge amount of contemporary art

Art history graduate student with an interesting perspective on contemporary art from refugees

Alternate explanation for the universe's acceleration of expansion. Not dark matter or energy but rather variable time

An open source alternative to Slack and Discord

Lovely craft to remember one's year

Yeats The Second Coming made into the form of a smarmy affirmation lawn sign

Yearly stats on growth of the Internet

An odd New Year's tradition, of a sort