estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Yahoo Groups to remove all content December 14 https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html
Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins near Luxor https://t.co/UMULaFsqZx
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Linux security hole: Much sudo about nothing https://zd.net/2oxP8zT by @sjvn
There are serious security holes and then there's ones like this.
In the 80s, PC Week reporters hung out at a restaurant near Lotus, Infocom, and Bitstream. People talk about EVERYTHING in public during lunch.
The Executive Approval Project uses international polling data measure public support for presidents, prime ministers, and other political executives in 50 countries http://www.executiveapproval.org/
Chipotle will pay for its employees to get business or technology degrees at certain colleges https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/business/chipotle-college-tuition-reimbursement/index.html
With cameras in the starting blocks peering up the legs of athletes into their eyes, television viewers have been taken closer to the action than ever before at the world championships – and it is a little too close for some athletes.
The Huntington Library is exhibiting 250 of its objects that were made, edited, or acquired in 1919. https://hyperallergic.com/522474/nineteen-nineteen-huntington-library
How the iPhone popularized steampunk... and how the iPhone killed it off. https://modus.medium.com/what-ever-happened-to-steampunk-4ac936905165
You can take an Uber helicopter from JFK to NYC for $200
https://dujour.com/lifestyle/uber-copter-launch-manhattan-jfk-airport-heliflite/
"The most popular lunch boxes for kids in the ’70s and ’80s were the ones that wouldn’t get you beat up in school." https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/vintage-70s-lunch-boxes-revisited-when-pop-culture-ruled-the-playground/
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An oral history of hard-shell tacos https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-hard-shell-tacos
On the law and mythologies of haunting, from antiquity to today. https://daily.jstor.org/do-we-have-to-tell-them-house-is-haunted/
A study found that people who live in cold, rainy places are more likely to associate the color yellow with joy. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/what-makes-people-happy-when-skies-are-gray-color-yellow
"Using the tools for modelling the spread of infectious disease, cyber-risk researchers at Stanford Engineering are analyzing the spread of fake news much as if it were a strain of Ebola." https://scienceblog.com/511234/how-fake-news-spreads-like-a-real-virus
You can see Brooklyn's familiar roads that began as Native American trails on a 1946 map titled "Indian Villages, Paths, Ponds and Places in Kings County." https://www.6sqft.com/this-1946-map-shows-how-native-american-trails-became-the-streets-of-brooklyn/
What song can you listen to, and it brings you right back to a happy moment?
It’s almost 2020 and there’s a cassette tape shortage https://futurism.com/the-byte/cassette-tape-shortage
I made a baby quilt for this guy, before the birth of his first daughter. I'm so glad I did
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017