- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It's a sad week for the IT industry.
- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Apple’s iPod: ten years old – Is it really a decade since the first iPod?
Tag Archives: history
My delicious.com bookmarks for September 12th through September 15th
- Vintage 80s: Life on the streets – Images from London in the 1980's.
My delicious.com bookmarks for August 9th through August 14th
- The IBM PC is 30 today – Look how far we've come in thirty years…
- photoshoplooter – I think this is a typically British response to the rioting currently going on around the UK this week.
My delicious.com bookmarks for May 12th through May 17th
- "1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto – Cool visuals of the cold war.
- When We Tested Nuclear Bombs – Amazing and scary images. I didn't know that there had been so many tests — over a hundred in one year alone.
My delicious.com bookmarks for April 2nd through April 5th
- Average App Store Review Times – Displays the average app review time by pattern-matching tweets. Clever. (Currently around seven days, apparently.)
- Osborne! – Nice article about the Osborne-1 and the man behind it.
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 26th through March 7th
- Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow – "Tomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81." Given my domain name, I had to link to this.
- Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Autism Groups “Kill Children” — And He’s Right – "And it is dangerously idiotic when the bad choice in question kills children."