Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for August 25th from 21:31 to 17:36:

• Twitter / numberless: “the username of your dreams” … – "the username of your dreams"
• Twitter / nelson: Quite possibly the coolest … – Quite possibly the coolest eBay auction ever: 4k of Soviet era ferrite core RAM.
• Ussr Soviet Russian Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube Manual Quite Rare | eBay – Quite possibly the coolest eBay auction ever: 4k of Soviet era ferrite core RAM.
• Finally, a Service to Track Viral GIFs (Like the Weird Ones From Last Night’s VMAs) – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic – Yes! A site that tracks the most viral GIFs on Twitter. (Like all that weird stuff from the VMAs).
• Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed by the Company –
• If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple – strat?chery by Ben Thompson –