These are my links for December 14th 2012 through December 15th 2012:

• Tangled Webs 7.6 – The Black Team – "Soon the members of team were twice and then dozens of times more effective than their peers, and they began to view their jobs not as testing software, but as breaking software. Team members took a well-deserved pride in their abilities and began to cultivate an image of villainous destroyers. As a group, they began coming to work dressed in black and took to calling themselves "The Black Team.""
• Arcfinity – ANNOUNCING: Forever alone drone – #foreveralonedrone, the latest issue of Arc, is a collection of tales from the technological wilderness >
• Digital archives: Difference Engine: Lost in cyberspace | The Economist – "Lately, your correspondent has been hunting high and low for some of those early web pages. All the HTML files he had laboriously hand-coded were originally kept on an old Dell computer, with back-up copies stored on box-loads of floppies. Time passed and the Dell went the way of all things made obsolete by Moore’s Law. The floppies got mislaid between foreign assignments. Meanwhile, with a professional team by then in place, The Economist's website expanded and moved to servers elsewhere. The rest, as they say, is history."