My HTML article clean-up in WordPress screwed up a video embed, so the Web Guy has to clean up after me again.

I also just spilled a whole cup of coffee on myself.

So yeah, I’m having a morning.

Because you definitively need some Dorothy Parker today (and stories about editorial oversight): "When she was good she was very very good, and when she was bad she wore this divine nightdress…" https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair

3 Lessons from big software failures

We all learn from mistakes, writes @lisavaas -- ideally from *someone else’s* mistakes. After the frantic glitch dissection, after the final customer update, it’s time to pick up the pieces and dissect. Herein, a collection of more or less recent, decidedly epic software disasters. May they spark conversation that helps your shop to avoid more of the same.

https://www.functionize.com/blog/3-lessons-from-big-software-failures/

How a cartoonist brought the Brontes to life again https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/02/isabel-greenberg-glass-town-graphic-novel-charlotte-bronte

Tony Adams analyzed audio spectrograms corresponding to more than 8,200 pitches. Last week, he published a website documenting his findings in the Astros scandal, including a spreadsheet of the data #baseball http://signstealingscandal.com

"A University of Saskatchewan-led international team has produced the first web and mobile phone app of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales--the first major literary work augmented by new scholarship, in any language, presented in an app." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uos-cti013020.php
h/t Tara

“When people interact, they end up agreeing, and they make worse decisions - they don’t share information, they share biases.” (2016) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160113-are-your-opinions-really-your-own

Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges #cososec https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/serious-flaw-that-lurked-in-sudo-for-9-years-finally-gets-a-patch/

The plan to ban private cars from Market Street in San Francisco—one of the city’s busiest and most dangerous downtown thoroughfares—enjoys a remarkable level of local support. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/01/market-street-car-free-san-francisco-bike-lanes-transit/605674/

"English-language popular songs have become more negative. The use of words related to negative emotions has increased by more than one third." https://aeon.co/ideas/why-are-pop-songs-getting-sadder-than-they-used-to-be

KC & The Sunshine Band consider a name change for a bank (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=KuS3jYcgaEI&feature=emb_logo

Secretly Documenting the Intimate World of 19th Century Sex Workers
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/23/secretly-documenting-the-intimate-world-of-19th-century-sex-workers

Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200121-why-procrastination-is-about-managing-emotions-not-time

I'm glad this is not relevant to me: Canada's International Hair Freezing Competition. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/573635/canada-hair-freezing-competition

How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website? https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html

"What this and similar legislation seem to willfully misunderstand is that no one is buying oat milk because they think they are buying milk. The fact that it’s not a lacteal secretion is precisely the point." https://www.eater.com/2020/1/31/21116677/virginia-house-of-delegates-passes-milk-legislation-to-limit-oat-milk-almond-milk

Men Call Their Own Research ‘Excellent’. Women do so much less often. And it’s not because their work isn’t as good. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/opinion/gender-science-study.html

Alex Trebek: The Jeopardy! icon on retirement, his legacy, and why knowledge matters. https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/alex-trebek-jeopardy-in-conversation.html