Mx Tynehorne’s link roundup, volume LXXI

Before we start: in the time since the last roundup, i’ve also added ten new links to the linkroll, all of which are just as good as any you’ll find here. Check ’em out! The Internet Archive’s collection of “vintage AI” — mostly in the video-game sense, but there’s some Elizas and other chatbots in there too Remember Pink Trombone, that little web toy where you could control a mouth and make it speak? Samuel tries to make it work with real audio of speaking. Spooky! Fairly ranking the most brilliant birds Giant Pumpkin Statistics and Grower Resource. That’s a resource for giant pumpkins, not a giant resource for pumpkins! Holdouts: The Nazi pockets of WWII that kept fighting A very good piece of hypertext fiction The Eaglemoss Orrery… I need this thing so badly Evilstick: “It gained notoriety and media attention in 2014 after a parent bought one at a dollar store in Dayton, Ohio, and discovered that the hidden image in the toy depicted a woman cutting her forearm.” Yeah, i’m at the…