"The BASIC Engine is a very low-cost single-board home computer with advanced 2D color graphics and sound capabilities, roughly comparable to late-1980s or early-1990s computers and video game consoles. It can be built at home without special skills or tools and using readily available components for under 10 Euros in parts, or mass-produced for even less."

all about adapters

IDEA is a series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions, created by Sándor P. Fekete, Sebastian Morr, and Sebastian Stiller.

incubating a humane dynamic medium

Everything* you need to get started with the Pi Zero W, including an SD card with operating system pre-loaded, a smart and colourful Pibow Zero W case, and even one of our lovely Blinkt! multicolour LED strips to take your first steps with coding in Python!

Many terms commonly used in computer programming originated with Mark I.
These terms, nowadays digital, originally referred to physical features of the machine and the paper tape that encoded the programs.

A cautionary tale about rumours and conspiracy theories.

Mac app that changes your desktop to the satellite view of where you are.

"Automobile manufacturing companies like Ford need to acknowledge that they are no longer making automobiles with attached computer systems. In reality, they are making computer control systems with attached motion mechanisms." - Alan Cooper

A collection of lessons on programming.

The Ministry of Type investigates the limitations that the UI designers of the Xerox Star had to deal with. Fascinating.

Excellent tips on configuring your shell environment to make history a little more useful.

"The images you see [...] were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful"

Apple themed poster prints.

Tom Armitage has hooked Tower Bridge in London up to Twitter, brilliant!

CNet runs through some of the best and worst examples of in-car LCD use. They all look terrible to me, is this really the best the car manufacturers can do?

"The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication." No idea when I'll find the time to read this.

The reading list for a course at Cornell.

Laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software/web development

"SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets." - lots of cool data tools basically.

Art from Atari 2600 cartridges. I want one of these for my wall.

Nice simple explanation of RSS aimed towards the lay person.

"Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond."

Guide to all the stuff going on under the hood, Geeky and useful.

Required reading for system admins

I remember seeing this a little while ago and forgot to save the link. Very very cool, the world as a palette.

"A repository for every keyboard secret in OS X"

In depth resource for the Secondlife scripting language

Complete list of about:config entries for Gecko based browsers

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) is a newly established ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments.

I often come across these in IRC from friends over that side of the world. This is a handy list of the most popular.

"How to use sed, a special editor for modifying files automatically. If you want to write a program to make changes in a file, sed is the tool to use."

Comprehensive overview for setting up a whole mail system

What goes on under the hood of OS X during startup

Great advice for UKers on how to go about asserting your rights

Fascinating interview

A website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.

Learn how Turing Machines work, via We Make Money Not Art

I won't condone software piracy, but this is pretty clever.

Experiments with non-clickable UI

Project to add CVS awareness to the OSX Finder