Linked List: February 2024
Monday, 19 February 2024
- ♫ The Bug Collector ✶
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Phenomenal composition and performance by Haley Heynderickx.
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
- Pixel Heart ✶
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A heart made of little squares called picture elements, or pixels, many of which are forming the image that you are looking at right now. In the merch shop just in time for Valentine’s day.
Monday, 12 February 2024
- Apple /// Horses Demo ✶
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Andy Hertzfeld, one of the creators of the Macintosh computer:
Someone disassembled and recreated an Apple /// demo that I wrote in early 1980, the colorful “Running Horses” demo that was used as part of the launch. It used images originally created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878.
See also: The Horse in Motion.
- Observer Eye and 10 Print Code ✶
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Two new computer-related designs in the merch shop:
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Observer Eye Symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical Unicode block, made in 2015. It is a profile view of an eye representing the act of observation. The pupil also looks a bit like a radio antenna.
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10 Print Code, a classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program that generates random labyrinths. Read a lot more about it in this book.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
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Wednesday, 7 February 2024
- Quick Alphabet ✶
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Letters moving quickly are now available in the merch shop:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
- Flying Paper Lips ✶
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The imgtlk logo is now available in the merch shop 💋
Monday, 5 February 2024
- Aviation Maps of the Federal Aviation Administration ✶
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John Keegan, writing on his site, Beautiful Public Data:
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.