OH from a friend in a beach community: "There are a good many tourists arriving daily. What I don't understand is they can wear socks with scandals but they can't wear a damn mask."

An ancient city is about to have its “soundscape” recorded https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/06/06/the-lost-instruments-of-teotihuacan-will-soon-be-heard-again

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

How to create a meditation space at home. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-set-up-a-home-meditation-space/

TIL: By 1897, holiday window dressing was such a heated enterprise, L. Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz and was thereby an authority on all things magical, began publishing “Show Window,” a magazine devoted entirely to holiday window displays. https://www.6sqft.com/macys-lord-taylor-and-more-the-history-of-new-york-citys-holiday-windows/

It is as if you were doing work
https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

The US President's birthday is apparently a thing, and his reelection campaign put up a website for supporters to upload videos wishing him well. Originally the S3 bucket was unsecured, but they fixed that. Now you can use this command line tool to upload your well wishes in bulk to a place where they're charged by the gigabyte.
https://github.com/john-tipper/happy-birthday-mr-president/blob/master/README.md
Yo @th3j35t3r

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change (2019) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

How to Download Audible Books to Apple Watch
https://bookriot.com/2020/05/29/how-to-download-audible-book-to-apple-watch/

Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community https://alexisohanian.com/home/2020/6/5/what-did-you-do

One of the first acts by the Trump administration was to delay the creation and issuance of the Harriet Tubman twenty dollar bill. What if people keep marching in the streets until the bill is fast-tracked?

https://twitter.com/davepell/status/1269431949942128640

Never mind newly minted corona lockdown stories, authors are frantically rewriting existing projects to reflect a world turned upside down by the pandemic – or shelving them indefinitely https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/01/no-pubs-no-kissing-no-flying-how-covid-19-is-forcing-authors-to-change-their-novels

Even before the pandemic, the National Archives put out a call for volunteer researchers and catalogers to assist with transcribing the vast trove of materials held by the nation's record keeper, and they still need help. https://historyhub.history.gov/welcome

In 1815 a volcanic eruption wreaked havoc around the world. It led to the birth of the bicycle https://www.1843magazine.com/design/rewind/why-global-crises-are-the-mother-of-invention

An empty Paris, 100 years on. Worth it just for the oh-wow photography. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/europe/paris-atget-coronavirus.html

A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

A laser sensor found the earliest known Mayan structure. The sheer size of the 3,000-year-old platform suggests the civilization developed more quickly than archaeologists had previously assumed. https://gizmodo.com/lost-monument-of-early-maya-civilization-discovered-in-1843880822

The EU-funded design study of the world's largest sub-millimetre astronomical telescope is about to start. It will be powered by renewable energy. https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/193029?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/193029

Today, we meet a heroine by the name of Belle da Costa Greene. Under the honey-hued lights of Manhattan’s Morgan Library, she became the guardian of the world’s greatest cultural treasures. https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/03/she-was-a-black-librarian-who-could-equal-americas-most-powerful-man/

The best QA job interview questions for managers to ask

Your development team is ready to hire a new software tester. What questions can you ask in the job interview that (a) are not lame and (b) actually help you determine if this job applicant is qualified? If you have no idea what questions to ask the candidate, this article serves as a useful cheat sheet.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/the-best-qa-job-interview-questions-for-managers-to-ask/