There was a brief thread yesterday on zippers and YKK brand zippers, which seem to have retained their quality in spite of being a near monopoly. YKK corporation is privately held. Not a publicly traded corporation.

Lol I was once a lot more organized. This is 1993 or 1994. 19 Dec Ted Nelson 430p 18 Dec Wicinski at New Dawn 07 Dec Meet with Jenny Cool @ 8p 19 Dec BAIL at Climate Theatre 03 Dec Meet with Jenny re: biz 15 Nov Meet w/ SF Library 3p 14 Nov 1p BAIL at Elbo room 14 Nov 1424a SVN (25/26) Mylars […]

The members of the Seventh-day Adventist church were traveling in a flotilla of canoes to a religious festival when they decided to make the walk on water. "They decided to test their faith by walking on water like Jesus, but they all drowned," a police spokesman said. "Other participants in […]

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We surround the plutonium core from thirty two points spaced equally around its surface, the thirty two points are the centers of the twenty triangular faces of an icosahedron interwoven with the twelve pentagonal faces of a dodecahedron.

Subject: Ballooning Date: Sun, 26 Jul 98 10:05 PDT From: Randy Bush <......> This is classic. Thanks to Ken Cancilla :- Remember the old "Man Flying in a Helicopter Above Microsoft" joke? Here's a biting update: A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height […]

LSD cures christianity.

A list I made in 2001: Things signalling the end of the universe leaf blowers electric toothbrushes office plant leaf polish (is not a joke) paper toilet seat covers plastic covered furniture car alarms "feminine hygiene" sprays underarm deodorant aerosol food (cheese, etc) watches that beep […]

Ingledale.

This was a very cool project in 1997! It still is! Analog video on a vinyl disk ("LP record") using a needle in the groove... https://gebseng.com/03_vinylvideo/

Some punk names: Anathema willa catheter flux oersted phil i stine Mike Robe rich quick My favorite drag/punk name is: Sharon Needles (NYC drag queen)

Umm, kraken art. https://www.npr.org/2011/10/14/141356526/seeing-a-cephalopod-in-ancient-bones

Ewww creepy egg.

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

I also remember the 622/i's assembly language. It was kinda nice. This one had the optional hardware multiply board installed. It had as i remember A, B registers and an X index register. It had the then-common feature called indirect addressing; JMP @123 put the contents of memory address 123 […]

The installation manual for my Varian 622/i minicomputer stated proudly, "no subfloor wiring needed". Why do I remember that.

#retrocomputing Interesting and brief blog of Tim Paterson, author of 86DOS, designer of the firstcever 8086 computer for Seattle Computer Products. https://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/?m=1

On Amtrak towards home, from fours days in San Francisco. Thursday hung out with tim pozar (fidonet.uucp gateway and much more), then dinner at Brewster's house. Friday john gilmore and i biked to IA, i did the tour, them talked to a lot of amazing IA and […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

"replacing women with men and machines"

Are there projects to come up with interesting sounding text to speech? Most of it seems obsessed eith getting some accent right. What about novel and interesting intelligble speech?

FSF == ARRL

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/116696559108679928 Starting to see this new acronym spread... I think its actually a pretty good angle to associate them with the current US facist regime in the minds of the general public

Please stop boosting news stories we all see. Honestly its an assault; we all see them. Discussions and commentary and writing preceding a forwarded link st minimum; why are you boosting this? Etc We're sll upset by the shit going on in the US. It feels good to be in a cohort of like minded […]

[US pol] “For my friends, everything; for my enemies the law.”

Breakfast time in the Mission.

My friend Bill Daniel got interviewed today, riding his bike, on World Bike Day, talked for about 10 min and the interviewer knocked it down to this absolutely amazing 30 seconds. This was off the cuff unplanned no advance notice. This played on right wing KCBS FM -- the lead in snippet (four […]

Public transportation. Ferry to Sausalito. Flag unavoidable, the deck jammed with people.

Abandoned railroad tunnel. You could live here free. Plenty of room Dropped pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/L8RetBSPKtr7QRYC7

One of MP/Ms endearing features: if you type the name of a running daemon on the command line, any command tail typed is sent to that daemon when you press return.

Wikipedia rendered this page just now: Irwin Corey's page image above oscilloscope page. Hmm

Pride month indeed. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/1/800047636/community/sci-fi-is-currently-in-a-golden-age-and-its-thanks-to-lgbtq-and-minority-authors/

So.... Im hearing unpleasant things about the OpenBSD devs, anyone have anything more substantial than rumor?

QAnon?!!!!

Bell Labs demonstrates many of the ways in which one should not attempt to make electronic memory devices. https://youtu.be/Px9ZfLyeAWU?si=MYliVDmn4KpWf5nc

OMFG I had forgot how maddening fvwm configuration is. I keep learning it and forgetting it. The most recent saved config is from 2006 and I remember nothing I did in it. OpenBSD comes with few fonts, and they're punitively small; 8 point, render about 1/16" high on the screen, and I can't […]

Yeah i know its rhe fkn insta but its eorth watching a few secs off. I wont be an AI slave! Kids these days. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkdaXivZe5/

RE: https://sfba.social/@Mikal/116665606194682737 Todays Internet, summed up in one post.

I'm going through the Three Little Bears, and OpenBSD seems Just Right. Running now on my old Thinkpad X13 with a USB wifi dongle. Install was easy, very clean and spare. Read each message carefully! Of course I did not. I had to disable UEFI boot. Took me two tries to figure that out. Its […]

Like this Tim Berners-Lee quote in this article. It applies to the web, the social web and now #theagenticweb: "Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with […]

Is there a technical limit to the number of dickovers one can place on a single page? https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

It occurs to me that a large underlying part of the tech industry's problems are that things built with semiconductors cost so fantastically little to make no one can make money from them without doing weird things. I'm building boards, and 80 of a particular part costs 7 bucks, and each tiny […]

/If you live in or do business in the United States, and your LastPass account was impacted by the 2022 LastPass Data Security Incident, you may be entitled to Benefits from a Settlement./ lol

Here's an interesting structure for a specialized social event. It requires a close read. Its brief. I think many people will find this novel and a bit weird. I think its a truly great idea. Scale this down to neighborhood level snd it could be free. https://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html

This is a nerdly fun read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution

As everyone ought to know by now, this is what is actually inside your computer.

Yesterday i learned that leor zolman added all those code overlay functions thr thr BDS C compiler for CP/M to support Ted Nelsons Xanadu project! At their request.

LOL! "Perfect Writer on the other hand, because it is written in 'C', will not become obsolete, but will easily accompany advances in computer hardware through the year 2000, at least." from the manual