Links worth a look, week 34

A macOS desktop fly, Mario Kart's real cars, and Susan Kare's icons

I was away on holiday this week, so slimmer pickings than usual. Everything I shared on social.omgmog.net between 17 and 23 August: a simulated fly walking around a Mac desktop, why Nintendo put real cars in Mario Kart, and Susan Kare’s icon work for the original Mac.

Why Nintendo put real-life cars in Mario Kart.

Susan Kare on designing the original Mac's icons and graphics.

A 3D fly that walks around a macOS desktop, driven by a simulation of 668 real neurons and about 19,000 synapses from the actual FlyWire connectome. The bug is INSIDE the machine.

desktop-fly

A DIY-ethos case for running your own site instead of renting space on a platform, own data, own domain, no algorithm deciding what gets seen.

The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto

A collection of old UI style guides, Apple, Windows, Amiga, Palm and more, as a record of how interface design thinking has shifted over the decades.

“I think there’s a lot of value in these.”

The 1996 Quake shareware CD shipped the whole id Software catalogue encrypted, unlockable by phone. The “secret” code was just proof of payment, so it got cracked in 39 days.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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