Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the precursor of today’s internet.
Category: linkage
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Chris Donovan
Amazing art from Chris Donovan. It’s creepy, yet… no, it’s just creepy.
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Kitty Spangles
Finally! The first solitaire game since Burning Monkey that I’m not ashamed to have on my Mac. Well, maybe a little ashamed, ‘cuz it’s kinda girly, and I’m a 30 31-year-old man. But still.
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but she’s a girl…
Yes, it’s another blog, but I’m really enjoying it at the moment.
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Linkage
Today’s Fun Links:
- I want to… — Great list of online resources for doing useful stuff
- Arcade Game Sounds — Recordings from the 80s of arcade machines in their natural habitat.
- Audiophile products — A list of insanely expensive audio gear, and an amusing illustration of what happens when people ignore physics in favor of, “If it’s more expensive, it must be better.”
- Links to interesting first-hand accounts of The Great War, from the few centenarians left.
- The Skyscraper Page — An amazing resource for info about and drawings of multi-story buildings around the globe.
- And last, but not least, World Beard and Moustache Championships — That’s some serious facial hair.
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Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses, Part 1 and Part 2. Nice scratching the surface of the way Cocoa’s classes think, and
clearer that some of the books I have in its explanations of same.Never mind— I’m still confused.
See, this is why I figure it’ll take at least three books, all by different authors, to teach me programming— because none of them make sense on their own.
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PT-7, Evening Edition
Silly me— all this time, I thought the Casio PT-7 only came in a cream color, but this fellow has on on eBay, and it’s black. Very cool.
Mark Boszko
