Nostalgia Friday (don’t worry, it’s not music videos this time), prompted by Jason Kottke’s link to Marc Hedlund’s comment: “One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that.”

• Unix fortune: the quote generator, for when you need inspiration or diversion (but not really divination, despite its Chinese fortune cookie roots).
• Unix ching: the I Ching fortune teller, for when you require guidance and unbiased advice. My favorite was “care of the cow brings good fortune“.
• The Usenet Oracle: rec.humor.oracle was a Usenet humor group disguised as an advice columnist. It was actually multiple advice columnists who demanded odd offerings for their sage words.