Tuesday Share: July 14, 2009

Vernan Falls, Ivan Makarov

For those of you who grew up with an NES, Atari 2600, or both – Check out this working demo of Mega Man on the Atari 2600.  Why would someone make a game for a system that stopped being produced 20 years ago?  I don’t know. Because they can?  Because they love classic video games?  I’m just glad they did.

For security buffs this is a disturbing revelation, hackers and ne’er-do-wells have decrypted how social security numbers are assigned and can “reverse engineer” your SSN if they know what year and where you were born!  Is nothing safe?

Have you suspected that American youth are ever more shallow and driven by gross greed?  Now we have charts and models to support it!

Want to play an iconic, classic PC RPG?  Now you can get Daggerfall for free, this is the 2nd chapter of the award winning Elder Scrolls series of open-world RPGs.

Yet another explanation for California’s woes, this time directed at Silicon Valley.

More California stuff:  State issued IOUs now to be regulated by the SEC.  I hope the don’t tranch these and then sell them as bundled securities with AAA ratings…

I just liked the painted figurines in this post…

That’s it for this week hope you enjoy the links, and exploring the internet.  Please send interesting links my way and I’ll share them here.

Author: Jonathon

Would rather be out swimming, running, or camping. Works in state government. Spent a youth reading genre-fiction; today, he is making up for it by reading large quantities of non-fiction literature. The fact that truth, in every way, is more fascinating than fiction still tickles him.

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