I've tried pretty much every other smartwatch on Earth, yet I still wear my Pebble every day—nothing else matches its features and long battery life. I really, really, really hoped someone else would create a proper replacement, but no one has stepped up, and my stash of old Pebbles is dwindling!
It's time to take matters into my own hands. A small team and I are working on a new Pebble-like smartwatch that runs open source PebbleOS, has the same beloved features (plus some fun new stuff), and stays true to the core Pebble vision. If enough people are interested, we'll build it. Sign up to get one!
Google (which purchased Fitbit, which had bought Pebble) still owns PebbleOS. Over the last year, a team inside Google (including some amazing ex-Pebblers turned Googlers) has been working on open sourcing the OS! The source code for PebbleOS is now available at github.com/google/pebble. Read more on their blog.
The original ELIZA running in an emulated CTSS environment. The setup process involves compiling a copy of the s709 IBM 7094 emulator. A copy of CTSS is then installed and started inside the emulator, and then Eliza is compiled and executed.
Fred Rogers dedicated his life to understanding childhood. He took that knowledge to the medium of television with his groundbreaking PBS series, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Over more than 30 years Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting with a trusted friend. Mister Rogers looked directly into the camera and sang and talked to each child watching. His radical kindness, acceptance, and empathy created a place that as TV Guide described: “… makes us, young and old alike, feel safe, cared for and valued… Wherever Mister Rogers is, so is sanctuary.”
Each “visit” starts with the donning of the sweater and sneakers signaling the transformation from Fred Rogers to Mister Rogers. That seemingly simple routine is part of a larger message and an invitation. The message: I care about you, no matter who you are and no matter what you can or cannot do. The invitation: Let’s spend this time together. We’ll build a relationship and talk and imagine and sing about things that matter to you.
Don’t be fooled by what appears on the surface to be a simple television show. There‘s a reason for everything Mister Rogers does, from taking off his jacket and putting on a sweater to using the Neighborhood Trolley to travel to Make-Believe.
This community was created by HAL, for 2001 fans, and is dedicated to creating a comprehensive and informative Wiki about all subject matter relating to Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, including works from associated collaborators and projects.
Fighting Fantasy is the title given to a series of interactive novels also known as Gamebooks that were developed by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. They had a huge following during the 1980s and 1990s. The FF books were ground-breaking in their heyday as they provided the reader with the chance to enjoy a good fantasy story as well as, for the first time, allowing the reader to guide the direction of the story to one of numerous end variations.
What is so special about the Fighting Fantasy series of books is that in each and every book the reader participates and affects the outcome of story. The reader assumes the role of the main character in the story, from the beginning of the story to the end, by guiding their character down various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs. The basis of all the books is a written background that outlines the location of the story, the characters involved and the events that have taken place. As a reader follows the plot they are often given certain choices that have to be made as the game progresses.
These books are coming back into print.
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On 1976 at the HomeBrew Computer Club (HBCC), there was a lot of whining about Bill Gates charging $150 for his Basic interpreter. Dennis Allison responded by printing a "Build Your Own [tiny] Basic" article, so I asked if anybody would buy it if it cost only $5. There seemed to be some affirmation, so I wrote my interpreter. Others jumped on the same article, and I wasn't the first done, but I wanted to be paid for my efforts. As far as I know, nobody at HBCC bought it, but I sent a freebie to Byte magazine and they printed a 1-inch announcement. The next month my mailbox was full of orders, every one with $5. I didn't get rich off it, but it did pay a lot of my expenses at grad school.
This is an archive of as many versions of TinyBasic, the documentation, the user and experimenter kits as Tom Pittman could find.
Everything Whole Earth ever published. The Catalog, Review, CoEvolution Quarterly, Magazine, Special Publications, Software Catalog and Review.. it's all here.
Two major collections of hobbyist and constructor's books from the UK. There are freely downloadable PDFs of all kinds of radio and electronics related stuff here.
It's an audio player for Windows that keeps the Winamp dream alive.
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times. Includes 8-bit and 16-bit fonts as well, including Atari, Tandy, and even some BIOS' characteristic typefaces.
TrueType (.ttf), bitmap (.fon) and web (.woff) remakes for 200+ character sets. Both pixel-perfect and aspect-corrected reproductions of the original raster fonts. Multi-lingual Unicode enhancements of selected system character sets. Free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
T-shirts sold by the Connections Museum in Seattle.
Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.
Do you remember Saturday nights in Pittsburgh? Do you remember "Chilly Billy" Bill Cardille and Channel 11's Saturday Late Show Chiller Theater? Chiller Theater was Pittsburgh's favorite place to see Horror, Fantasy, and Science-Fiction movies on television.
Nathan Anderson did some beautiful concept art of Neuromancer for his senior thesis.
Browser port of the classic xneko/oneko program. Puts a cute little kitten on your webpage, which chases your mouse cursor around. When it catches up it gets bored and takes a nap. It's a classic screen toy.
oneko.gif is the sprite sheet, if you want to change the graphics.
This is the much vaunted titor-special.
Ok, so I'm feeling a little paranoid. Things are not going so well in the USofA.. Hell we may as well call it the AFE...
VHS is a tool for creating GIFs that can be used to demo CLI tools. But what if we used it to do something different? Like re-create some classic scifi movie scenes. Such as Trinity using NMAP in the Matrix or hacking WOPR in War Games? This project has some VHS tapes that generate:
- Neo receiving messages from Trinity in the Matrix
- Trinity hacking using NMAP
- Hacking WOPR in War Games
- WOPR realising Thermonuclear war is a mugs game
- Dennis Nedry's terminal in Jurassic Park
- Ripley asking about Special Order 937
This is a free online edition of Mirrorshades, as edited by Bruce Sterling. Posted by Rudy Rucker, September 28, 2022.
Summercon is one of the oldest hacker conventions, and the longest running such conference in America. It helped set a precedent for more modern “cons” such as H.O.P.E. and DEF CON, although it has remained smaller and more personal. Summercon has been hosted in cities such as Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Austin, Las Vegas, and Amsterdam.
The Transactor was started life in 1978 as a Commodore Business Machines publication used to explain low level details of the Commodore PET. In 1982 it was reborn as a bimonthly independent magazine published out of Milton Ontario (Toronto) covering all 8bit Commodore’s. This revised magazine used the slogan new slogan was “The Tech News Journal for Commodore Computers” and was paid for through advertising and subscription prices. A quick scan of the covers below and you will be able to see when this change occurred. The Commodore Transactors were mass produced using a very inexpensive mimeograph technology while the independent magazine was created using a proper printing press.
Both publications were known for their depth. They covered hardware hacking in detail and were read by serious users. One issue even boasted that it was 95% advertising free right on the cover.