Rev. Gilbert White (1720-1792) had a pet tortoise called Timothy. 1 July 1791, White decided to dunk the tortoise in water.

We put Timothy into a tub of water, & found that he sunk gradually, & walked on the bottom of the tub: he seemed quite out of his element, & was much dismayed. This species seems not at all amphibious. Timothy seems to be the Testudo Graeca of Linnaeus. Dr Chandler who saw the operation, says there is a species of tortoise in the Levant that at times frequents ponds & lakes: and my Bro: John White, affirms the same of a sort in Andalusia.

Now, while the tortoise was fine after the incident, the tortoise could not let this offence lie, and retaliated. By outliving Gilbert White! As is common with turtle kind!

As is very common, the works of Gilbert White were 2D scanned for posterity. Of course, EVEN in death, Timothy had to one-up this! Timothy's shell was 3D scanned!

So hi, I'm from Europe. When this game came out, I was a teenager and I was like "oh based on what I've heard, I guess this is what all American military music sounds like".

Damn, I need to figure out how to replay the game, it still sits on my shelf on place of honour. (...is "Battlezone '98 Redux" substantially different? I appear to have it on GOG)

I remember being a little bit sour at this game, because I was so psyched up about game called Golgotha, which was another FPS/RTS hybrid game, and Battlezone made it first to the market, and I begrudgingly thought it probably had better game design, annnnnd Golgotha developers went out of business.

Pretty good summary on the Sony rootkit scandal.

Remember kids: Just rip your CDs in Linux. What are they gonna do about it?

This is the code in the Apollo Guidance Computer for Apollo 11.

It's part of the LUMINARY sofware, which ran on the AGC on the Lunar Module. It's meant to check if the landing radar is pointed toward the lunar surface - because the LM went through several orientations, the landing radar could be pointed to the front or the side or down. You're landing on the Moon. Point it down.

Point is, you have to verify user input. Even if your users are the most meticulous and highly trained individuals in history. You have to see if they're lying. So you get to the BURNBABY.

Browse the code in GitHub - this code is in THE_LUNAR_LANDING.agc

Pure. 1990s. Fantasy. Soundtrack. Stuff. Enough said.

Also I thought the game was basically unplayable for the longest time! It's now on GOG preservation.

(Not my photo, just random interwebs share.)

I don't know if snails have enough brain cells to be actually terrified. (Science must answer this.)

Apparently sulcata tortoise hatchlings are quite fast because they're, you know, small.

But most turtle species are actually quite speedy compared to snails. In fact, some herbivorous turtle species eat snails for protein! Just to assert that they're the speediest of all. *chomp*

If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words "try to", congratulations, you're a true *nix devotee.

If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you're working as hard as you can under the circumstances.

This was what retro gaming was back in the day, in 2011. Very retro. You went backward in time. That was what it meant!

Original music: Kenny Chou (demoscene handle “C.C. Catch”)

Original music: Kenny Chou (demoscene handle "C.C. Catch")

Edit: Okay. Ffff. This 👆 was a drunk shitpost. I'm sorry I did it. I hope it didn't get too existential.

Frets on Fire, an open source Guitar Hero clone.

So that's one of the hardest achievements I've done, from Stanley Parable. I just got the PC version of Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe which literally has 10 year achievement, though. ...will probably show up before that to brag about my Xbox version achievement of SPUD in, uh, a while, though.

When this was released ~10 years ago, everyone knew the series was full of dark humour. Now, we have to ask the all-important question: Why is this particular video quickly starting to look like the only 100% realistic video on how to teach children about computers? Not that we should use this video for this purpose - maybe we should fix the industry instead!

Google isn't exactly helpful. I tried searching for Minecraft Xbox 360 version conversion door bugs, but the most helpful thing I got was a Gemini answer, and after a while, I was like "what on God's green Earth are you babbling about?"

The world (and, I think, this particular structure) was from my Xbox 360 Edition world. It got converted to Xbox One. Then it got converted to Bedrock version. As far as I can recall it's an old bug. Hence the exhibit space.

This screenshot is from current Windows Bedrock version. Previously in this world, the block was (as I recall) a grass-topped dirt block with "upd ate" [sic] written on it in green pixel text. I was actually surprised today when I loaded up this world and saw that it now has a completely new question mark texture! When I converted the world to Java format in Chunker a few days ago, the block was (predictably enough) completely gone. (Don't have the error log at hand sorry)

So which exact conversion bug was this? What exact version of Minecraft had weird door conversions? I'm sure this is documented somewhere!

As you can see from the screenshot I try to keep the world generation bugs and weirdnesses as an exhibit, but, well, I guess the time ran out on this one.

From video by Drago on a mobile app Simply Draw. Which tries to lure children in by promising to teach them how to draw! But then you get hit by the paywall.

We shouldn't inspire children to follow their artistic dreams, and then hit them with the paywall. Or the mobile app economy as a whole. Not all adults are ready for the mobile app economy, why do we think children are ready for that? It's cruel. It's harsh.

I followed along with the tutorial, it's not a bad way to learn how to draw a fish. I'm depressed and I'm depressed because of fish thing so... I dunno if this helped me, it was a thing, I dunno.