Links for November 2017

11/30/2017 (updated 12/4/17)

• A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling - Slashdot
• Codepoints/awesome-codepoints: Awesome Code Points
• Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking | Labs
• Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
• Decoding barcodes / Boing Boing
• Homoglyph Attack Generator and Punycode Converter
• How Xena performs file format identification
• Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo: a 405 Accounting Machine
• Inside The Great Poop Emoji Feud
• JSON-stat: A simple lightweight standard for data dissemination - JSON-stat.org
• Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and [censored] | The Nanbanjin Nikki
• OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the Earth
• One Big Risk With Big Data: Format Lock-In - GovTechWorks
• Open Data Visualization Markup Language (ODVML)
• RSS: there's nothing better
• Run the First Edition of Unix (1972) with Docker — Nick Janetakis
• The Computer History Simulation Project
• The Digital Antiquarian
• Unicode Identifiers // perl11 blog
• Unicode Security Guide
• Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji – The Isoblog.
• UniversalViewer/universalviewer: The Universal Viewer is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world
• Welcome to the Pixel Format Guide | Pixel Format Guide
• What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
• absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured
• google/puffs: Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely
• Five things everyone should know about Unicode
• simh/simh: The Computer History Simulation Project
• vfile/vfile: Virtual file format for text processing
• xkcd: Digital Resource Lifespan

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