🎾 No more Lego Mindstorms, world's fastest shoes, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-04
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Geek
- Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run | Ars Technica
- Ejecting A Floppy Disk in Zero-G - Why NASA Flew A Mac on the Space Shuttle - YouTube
- Gene Roddenberry’s original Star Trek pitch sheet
- Decker - Hypercard meets the 21st Century
Retro
- This site lets you play any Doom WAD file just like that | PC Gamer
- An Apple II Tale Told Complete by the Late Tony Diaz - Byte Cellar
- RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language • The Register
Videogames
- Father And Adult Son Found Guilty Over 2018 Pokémon Go ‘Brawl’
- NASCAR driver stuns racing world with a move learned from Nintendo GameCube | Ars Technica
- Sonic Prime is coming to Netflix on December 15th!
Technology
- World’s Fastest Shoes Promise to Increase Walking Speed by 250%
- We used to get excited about technology. What happened? | MIT Technology Review
- How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server
- How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms | by Cory Doctorow | Oct, 2022 | Medium
- Amazon Music’s library of songs and podcasts is now free for Prime subscribers - The Verge
- People like file extensions whether or not they’re necessary
- Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers
Science
- 'Time Cells' in The Human Brain Encode The Flow of Time, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
- Space rock slams into Mars and reveals buried ice | CNN
- Why Stradivarius Violins Are Unparalleled by Modern Instruments: Chemical Clues to the Mystery
- Scientists Astonished by Strange Material That Can Be Made Like Plastic but Conducts Like Metal
Pop Culture
- [2021] Michael Jackson - Captain EO | FULL MOVIE | 4K 60FPS - YouTube
- Walmart and Netflix Premiere In-Store Expansion of Popular Netflix Hub
- Taylor Swift First With Entire Top 10 on Hot 100, ‘Anti-Hero’ No. 1 – Billboard
- Netflix’s ‘Blockbuster’ and Hollywood’s Greatest Spite Projects - The Ringer
Pot Pourri
- Dancers' moves help to power Glasgow music venue - BBC News
- North Carolina woman cited by police for shooting Mountain Dew cans in backyard: 'Don't DEW this' | Fox News
- Bones And Grooves: The Weird Secret History Of Soviet X-Ray Music : NPR
- Songwhip - Free music links to all platforms