The “E” editor for Windows adds support for in/out pipes in today’s release:

cat records.txt | sort | e | process_records

Ben Fry has a beautiful set of images and prints of Atari 2600 game code and data segments. The images show the code, the jump maps, and data blobs used by the games. The prints are based on his dismap project.

The classic nethack game (tile screenshots) is now available for the Nintendo DS. Some background on the ubercool Nethack, a game that captured the essence of the nerd hacker in the 80s.

Mount any MediaWiki wiki as a virtual filesystem and edit pages as local text files using WikipediaFS. Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen this week.

A completely useless, oddly interesting, and utterly obscure collection of word oddities and trivia. Words are cool.

A set of design patterns in pictures. Metaphors are cool (thanks pk).

Free. Audiobooks. Online. Now ain’t that just the coolest thing.

Application registration done right, that is if the software isn’t liberated already. It’s also a cool looking app.

Some tips on improving how you use your Bash history (and some other random bash tricks).

The example.com (and other reserved domain names) RFC. Yet another obscure-but-cool RFC.