Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Orion Magazine recently republished Rebecca Solnit's 2013 piece, Cyclopedia of an Expedition Around Svalbard. "The water liquid pewter and iron, with gentle ripples rather than white-crested waves. And the smeared red of a polar bear's meal." [orionmagazine.org]

Ain't it funny how the knight moves? A simple chess game involving moving your knight. "Don't land anywhere the queen can take you, and don't take the queen." [funnyhowtheknightmoves.com]

The sun last set on the British Empire "sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s". [theguardian.com]

The Apple Lisa computer is 40 years old and the Computer History Museum obtained permission from Apple to release the source code to its software. [computerhistory.org]

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