threats Spectrum threatens to ruin ex-customer's credit record unless they re-subscribe Mark Frauenfelder

Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow

AI DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow

art José Bernabé's organic geometry Andrea James

computers ZX Spectrum Next is an advanced version of the original 8-bit monster machine Rob Beschizza

books Kickstarting a steampunk anthology focused on "characters that are disabled or aneurotypical" Cory Doctorow

Science Why autism symptoms can ease during a fever — and how to mimic it Ellsworth Toohey

retrocomputing ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web Rob Beschizza

websites Make your own futuristic computer logo with the Sinclair-o-Matic Rob Beschizza

Technology A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser Ellsworth Toohey

wait for it This video on the complicated color codes of US passports cracked me up Jason Weisberger

books Cartoonist Gemma Correll's moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland Ruben Bolling

gaming A free book explains Tempest by reading every line of the source code Ellsworth Toohey

books Art book features the best 100 games on the Amstrad CPC Rob Beschizza

censorship Tennessee librarian fired after refusing to move books that "promote gender confusion" Rob Beschizza

Science The autism spectrum has 39 dimensions, and every profile is unique Ellsworth Toohey