📚 Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan's Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
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Internet Travels
Geek
- Lord of the Rings as an 80's Anime - YouTube
- Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami « ASCII by Jason Scott
- Obi-Wan’s Original Star Wars Cloak Was Lost For Years, Until it Was Worn By an Extra in 1999’s The Mummy
- I started making this C64 game in 1984. It’s time to finish it! - YouTube
Retro
- 10 of the Most Valuable Cassette Tapes From the ‘80s and ‘90s
- GitHub - raspberrypioneer/ExcelCommodroid: Load software onto a Commodore 64 or Commodore Vic-20 retro-computer from a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet, with the help of an Arduino / clone microcontroller
- GitHub - swetland/zx81-keyboard: ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard
- For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game | Ars Technica
- A company called Atari is releasing a brand-new 2600 cartridge this year | Ars Technica
Videogames
- GTA Online Fans Angry As 180+ Cars Get Removed, Some Paywalled
- Gamers Check Skulls After Twitch Streamer Finds Headphone Dent
- Tears of the Kingdom Fans Are Building Computers Now
Technology
- Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away | Ars Technica
- Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways – Krebs on Security
- Computers that live two seconds in the future (Interconnected)
Science
- The Apple II launched 46 years ago today and helped to start the PC boom - Neowin
- Brain responses to nutrients are severely impaired and not reversed by weight loss in humans with obesity: a randomized crossover study | Nature Metabolism
- The illusion of moral decline | Nature
- Why do horses sleep standing up? | Live Science
- Scholars may have an authentic manuscript of a medieval comedy show — and it’s pretty funny
Pop Culture
- Is Old Music Killing New Music? (archive link)
- General Mills Officially Announces "Carmella Creeper" as First New Cereal Monster in 35 Years! - Bloody Disgusting