Link Roundup: From Inspiration to Hilarity

These two links have no correlation other than I found them both today, and found them worth noting.

The Inspirational

First, the inspirational: Roger Ehrenberg on future generations looking back on this time as the halcyon days of entrepreneurship. Combined with the non-stop morphine drip of posts on 37signals' Signal vs. Noise blog, and it starts to seem as though someone has called together a massive, decentralized, grassroots flash mob recruiting campaign for the entrepreneurial life.

The Hilarious

Next up, the hilarious: via crummy.com, a link to literal translations of Atari 2600 game cover art. Brilliant. My personal favorite would have to be “Backgammon for Friendless People”, or perhaps “Obligatory Educational ‘Game’”.

Lately, coinciding with my own nostalgic forays into the history of personal computing, there seems to be a renewed interest in old-timey computing kitsch, perhaps best exemplified by Jeff Atwood’s graphic description of the horror of programming in Basic on the Atari 2600.

Even the meager search engine traffic I manage confirms this trend—most of my traffic this month has come from people either looking for Tuesday Night Football (circa 1980), or for people looking for Mattel’s Talking Football (circa 1972).