All about Elite, including Elite on the 6502, which meticulously pores through the source code of the original BBC Micro game / sort of related, the ISS offers a live-streamed view of Earth / also sort of related, For the over 50s, What used to be but is no more? / see also favorite instances of haptic nostalgia (via Kottke) / Lego_Adventure in the City, a stop motion film by Rogier Wieland / What are some “holy grails” of collecting? / remember Stanley Green? / sort of related? the Canadian ‘fruit machine‘ / a familiar original from David McCallum and David Axelrod / one of several hacks to get your Google search utility back without AI: via MeFi) / see also Better without AI.
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‘Jellycat burglars: Meet the people surfing the soft toy crime wave‘ / what is the cost of perpetual skepticism? / music by Mystery Biscuit / Bristol house for sale with pre-installed Banksy / the Sainsbury Archive / unsurprising news edition: Abramovich dodged millions in tax with superyachts-for-hire scheme / Stephen Fry on the future of Twitter, from 2009 / a gallery of e-ink faces for the Watchy open-source watch / yikes, the Stimulation Clicker, easy to lose half an hour to (via b3ta) / another classic: top tips for blog monetization / What Is Going On At The National Portrait Gallery? / a collection of familiar illustration tropes / the NATO graphic novel / ‘The battlefield is everywhere. The wild nuclear maps of “Wild” William Bunge’, at Doomsday Machines / whatever happened to the Cryonic Castle? The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is still a thing / the London Contemporary Architecture Map / Tour 21 lesser-known modernist houses in Europe / buy a classic Westminster shagpad.
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News and views at The Index / an index of Nordic Happiness markers at Kotona / David Lynch’s world of perfume commercials and car commercials / the performance art and music of Tony Morris. Ivor Cutler meets Suicide, we think someone said / art by Helena Boase / Data Centre murals by Fuchsia MacAree (thanks to Happenstance Books) / an essay on the Disappearing Living Room, thanks to ever-more cramped housing conditions / Virtual Dreams II: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993?-?1999, via Andrew Womack / how to date your Anglepoise. More tips at the very comprehensive 1227 / the wonderful work of Andreas Wannerstedt (via MeFi) / photography by Clark Winter / Concrete TV. NSFW in an old-school kind of way.