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 DMV (Deserted mediæval village)
• Acronymy! Or, the quest to define every word in the English language as an acronym. Cringe for example: “common regret is not good enough”.
• The Endless Museum: explore Wikipedia as a 3D place! (via the e’er-reliable Web Curios)
• The Warren: a collection of internet rabbit holes, each of which comes with links to video, text, and audio stories (ditto)
• The Tube Computer (ditto)
• Robin Sloan, always a welcome measured voice on the thinking machine: ‘Ask for what you want’ is a key skill for the 21st century
• How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture