Sunday Things - late edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 2 2017
It's still Sunday! ... Depending on where you are.
Dustbin of History: Project Greek Island - new employee at hotel complex audits the books, discovers gigantic secret nuclear bunker underneath hotel. Built in the 1950s and only closed in the early 1990s, this is pure Fallout.
The "Harvard Sentences" Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech - these days a chicken leg is a rare dish. The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks. How much can a person mishear before the meaning is lost? Now automated systems use these phonetically balanced relics to test telephone network quality.
Bonus Alternate System Font corner:
- Olympiad: IBM prototype fonts unearthed - you know the crappy monospaced serif font that was forever the soul of IBM PCs and compatibles? Well, it had a much nicer version.
... TeddyBär! ... what?
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