*It’s odd how archaic this is, and yet it’s continually refreshed by being re-invented for new forms of hardware.

*That’s some world, and it’s in quite a state. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/551/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html

*That’s a handsome sum.

*An interesting specialized-take on matters. *It’s Los Angeles now, but it’ll be some other city later. Or, Los Angeles again. Historic Buildings Destroyed in Southern California Blazes

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That’s an electronics kit cheap enough that one might need two or three of them. https://www.ifixit.com/products/pro-tech-go-toolkit

*This video is itself eight years old, but clearly, creating replica props from old videotape has serious issues. *When Adam Savage discovers an existent historic prop, he immediately abandons several years of estimate work. And, yes, his estimates were close, but no cigar.

*I did not know that “industrial tourism” exists, but in Italy one learns something new every day. I wonder what a too-successful “industrial over-tourism” might look like. https://www.archiviostoricolivetti.it/en/news-2/second-international-conference-on-industrial-tourism/