November 2017

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Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR

http://www.mkcastor.com/raspberry-piboy-handheld-gaming-system-in-walnut-and-carbon-fiber/
Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)

Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR

http://www.mkcastor.com/raspberry-piboy-handheld-gaming-system-in-walnut-and-carbon-fiber
Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)

Our Older Brother – Firefox Test Pilot – Medium

https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/our-older-brother-97eace639103?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
A new look for a new browser Today is a huge day for Mozilla. We’re launching Firefox Quantum which is the fastest, best-looking, and generally most awesome browser we’ve ever released. Until you ship significant amounts of code in Firefox, as our team did last month with Screenshots, it’s hard to get your head around exactly how detail-oriented, strategic, and precise you have to be to steer such a large, powerful ship. We couldn’t have shipped Screenshots without the gracious, patient support of many, many people on the Firefox core team. This is a huge day for these folks and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate all of the care, consideration, and hard work they’ve put in to make today possible. We’re also excited because today marks the second time that a Test Pilot experiment has graduated into Firefox proper. In Firefox Quantum, Activity Stream will be the default homepage for Firefox! The Activity Stream team has done tremendous work overhauling one of the most visible features in Firefox. Activity Stream was one of the first experiments in Test Pilot, and we’re thrilled to see it become a core Firefox feature. At Test Pilot, we wanted to celebrate in our own little way. The redesign of Firefox gave us a new logo, new style guide, and a lot of ideas about updating our look for the Quantum release. We took these cues and integrated them into Test Pilot, and today, the site has an all-new look to match the new Firefox UI. We think the new design will serve us well as we roll out some exciting new experiments and Test Pilot features over the next few months! Our Older Brother was originally published in Firefox Test Pilot on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. via Pocket

Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell

https://mattgemmell.com/nintendo-switch/
The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.

Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell

https://mattgemmell.com/nintendo-switch
The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.

Retroist Thriller Podcast - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2017/10/31/retroist-thriller-podcast/
Welcome to the Retroist Thriller Podcast. On today’s show I talk all about the music video masterpiece, Thriller. I start off talking about how I was terrified by the monologue from this song while visiting a Ground Round. Then I move onto Michael Jackson and the song, album and video he brought to the world. […] The post Retroist Thriller Podcast appeared first on The Retroist.

Retroist Thriller Podcast - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2017/10/31/retroist-thriller-podcast
Welcome to the Retroist Thriller Podcast. On today’s show I talk all about the music video masterpiece, Thriller. I start off talking about how I was terrified by the monologue from this song while visiting a Ground Round. Then I move onto Michael Jackson and the song, album and video he brought to the world. […] The post Retroist Thriller Podcast appeared first on The Retroist.

www.geek.com

https://www.geek.com/culture/this-kfc-bath-bomb-will-have-you-smelling-like-fried-chicken-1721445/?source
KFC Japan has some very, shall we say, unique approaches to promoting its food in Japan, with some pretty strange things on offer to get people to eat there. We’re talking entire bento […] The post This KFC Bath Bomb Will Have You Smelling Like Fried Chicken appeared first on Geek.com.

www.geek.com

https://www.geek.com/culture/this-kfc-bath-bomb-will-have-you-smelling-like-fried-chicken-1721445?source=
KFC Japan has some very, shall we say, unique approaches to promoting its food in Japan, with some pretty strange things on offer to get people to eat there. We’re talking entire bento […] The post This KFC Bath Bomb Will Have You Smelling Like Fried Chicken appeared first on Geek.com.

The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer/
Among the clones manufactured by the Communists was the Cobra or CoBra. The name stands for COmputere BRAsov, with Brasov being the town in central Romania where these machines were assembled to be used by enterprises. Of course, ordinary people couldn’t buy them—which is what first led several students at the Politehnica University of Bucharest deciding to build them themselves.

The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer
Among the clones manufactured by the Communists was the Cobra or CoBra. The name stands for COmputere BRAsov, with Brasov being the town in central Romania where these machines were assembled to be used by enterprises. Of course, ordinary people couldn’t buy them—which is what first led several students at the Politehnica University of Bucharest deciding to build them themselves.