Happy happy birthday Cassandra!

The interwebs have been creaky over here today, so this will be a short one. More tomorrow, hopefully.

Wired has some good articles lately - one about arcade games from the Soviet era, one about the rise of steampunk.

Meanwhile, in modern design there's the Gravity-Powered Bookshelf. I think we need something like that - our entertainment center recently decided the weight of the world was too much and fell all to pieces.