I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But as you can see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open, and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means friendship.

The Internet Archive is now on its 8th consecutive day of site downtime. I wrote this yesterday, expressing my concern for what this implies about the organization we have trusted to hold and make available our history. bzotto.medium.com/the-internet-a…

Hawaiian Airlines, logo c 1980s.

It’s kind of cool that Northern California is now back in the utopian society building game after a few decades away from it.

A new PBS logo was developed in 1984 to overcome what was described as a ‘serious problem with the prior identity’: its focus on just the initials which was designed by Herb Lubalin back in 1971. The logo later devised by Chermayeff & Geismar, which would replace Lubalin’s,

Vannevar Bush's "Memex" desk concept, 1945. "Would instantly bring files and material on any subject to the operator's fingertips."

OTD in 2004, the Red Sox broke the curse and were crowned World Series champions for the first time in 86 years!

Quad in the UK has updated and re-released one of my very favorite vintage hi-fi designs, the 1960s-era Model 33 (and its matching 303 amplifier). I restored a 33 once, and it's just a gorgeous piece of equipment. The new version looks OK! quad-hifi.co.uk/products/quad-…

One of our city's best run departments. 👇

FDC/1: A 5.25" Floppy Disk Controller for Sphere computers. An art project+useful thing done as a learning experience. sphere.computer/shop.html

A tech & history post about the origins of "Halt and Catch Fire" and the way in which this real, strange mode is visible on Sphere computers: news.sphere.computer/archive/halt-a…

50 years ago today—April 7, 1975—MITS published the first issue of its Altair customer newsletter, Computer Notes. The big headline story was BASIC, which they'd just seen demonstrated by Paul Allen but hadn't yet finalized contracts for.

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