The most common insult hurled at it was “offensively un-American”… tipping was blamed for encouraging servility and degrading America’s democratic, puritanical, and anti-aristocratic ethic. European immigrants surging into the U.S. were charged with bringing this deplorable custom with them. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/30/457125740/when-tipping-was-considered-deeply-un-american

For something that many of us handle all day long, it sure would be nice if mice came in more sizes and shapes, wouldn’t it? Until that day, we’ll just have to find something passable or else design and build a custom-shaped mouse from scratch. https://hackaday.com/2024/03/10/custom-mouse-making-clay-is-the-way/

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

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Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, spent considerable time on the drawings, organising the symbolic elements according to a strict logic, making preparatory sketches and painstakingly incorporating drawings and colourings into his chronology. Dunant was convinced that the apocalypse was imminent. https://picryl.com/media/henry-dunant-apocalypse-diagram-b4a5e0

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The History of Chocolate as A Health Food
(by me, 2016)
https://www.canadapharmacyonline.com/blog/The-History-of-Chocolate-as-A-Health-Food.html

If anyone asks: My Halloween costume is "I am a serial killer. They look just like everybody else."

"While SGI knew they would deal in computers outfitted with a powerful GPU, they did not know precisely what else those computers should feature." https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics

In 2024, several music greats—including Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley and Whitney Houston—are once again topping the charts of the highest-paid dead celebrities. (paywall possible) https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2024/10/29/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-of-2024

A 200-year-old musical score believed to be composed by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in the vault of New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/previously-unknown-chopin-waltz-identified-at-new-yorks-morgan-library-1234722397/

The 18th edition, published this September, is a touch more robust than the version that appeared after the 1906 World Series. At 1,192 pages, some five times the size of the original edition, it now weighs four pounds. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-venerable-and-time-tested-guide/

Adele at the BBC: When Adele wasn’t Adele... but was Jenny! (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXjxWaQs9o

Sunday’s Chalamet contest with a turnout of over 2,000 people — with Timothée himself showing up — just was not something they could’ve expected nor prepared for. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/timothee-chalamet-lookalike-contest-nyc-photos-2024

“Twenty years ago, I interviewed a bunch of people who ran for president and lost. I asked them what was the most surprising thing they learned from running for president. Here’s what they told me.” https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/they-ran-for-president-what-did-they-learn/

"Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_8WzcHqMQ

A high-tech electric ferry service began operating in Stockholm Tuesday, offering commuters a low-carbon way to zip through the waterways of the Swedish capital, which is built on 14 islands. https://apnews.com/article/stockholm-electric-ferry-archipelago-sweden-clean-energy-e2b39de682f97e657538c61999c8291a

A Rural Missouri Town Fights Big Tech, and Itself
You obviously had me at "rural Missouri town." (gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/technology/data-center-peculiar-missouri.html