🧟♀️ Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-03
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Internet Travels
Geek
- Yes, a Lego Computer Brick Can Play ‘Doom’
- Packard Bell Mini - Molten Software
- Do we really need a J.J. Abrams Star Trek 4 movie?
- 💾 Floppy8 - A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive – abe.today
- At Least $100,000 Worth Of Magic Cards Dumped In Landfill
- Raspberry Pi Helps TRS-80 Model 102 Deploy Kubernetes | Tom’s Hardware
Retro
- An Amiga Mouse, The Modern Way | Hackaday
- Clipped Claws : Boris Kretzinger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- The Best Star Trek Game in Decades Is This Free Browser Title | Den of Geek
- One of the World’s Largest Collections of Classic Apple Products is for Sale | PetaPixel
Videogames
- Half-Life 1: Ray Traced
- Valve bans 40,000 Dota 2 accounts after laying a trap for cheaters - The Verge
- How Bill Gates’ Minesweeper addiction helped lead to the Xbox | Ars Technica
- Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure (demo) by Matthew Justice
- The Best Mac Gaming Experience Is a PC Sitting in a Dallas Data Center - MacStories
- Zombie Shooter The Day Before Is In The Weirdest Legal Battle
- I Love ‘The Worst’ Video Game Ranking List Of All Time
Technology
- Police: Crypto mining operation found in school crawl space | AP News
- Thinkpad 701C with a Framework brain transplant (work in progress) - Mainboard - Framework Community
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Science
- The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist | Space
- Scientists have discovered a new core at the center of the Earth - The Washington Post
- The Connection Between ADHD and Imposter Syndrome | Psychology Today
- Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers : ScienceAlert
- Should the moon have its own time zone?
Pop Culture
- How to Watch Glass Onion With Rian Johnson Director Commentary
- Here’s why Warner Bros. is suing the South Park guys and Paramount for $200 million
- How to access secret movies and TV series on Netflix | The Independent
- Lady Gaga sued by dognapper accomplice for not paying reward | EW.com
- FXRant: Box Office Breakdown of MPAA Ratings, 1980-2022
Pot Pourri
- Diverging diamond interchange - Wikipedia
- Can The NBA’s Experimental Endgame Make It To Games That Count? | FiveThirtyEight
- Taco Bell Quarterly
- I Found It: The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created | Filthy Dreams
- 10 Pieces of Fashion You Can Wear to Confuse Facial Recognition
- If You Like ‘Bare Minimum Monday,’ Give ‘Try-Less Tuesday’ a Go
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