It's always a good day when I see "more coming from Sorkin"
https://deadline.com/2020/07/netflix-closes-50m-deal-for-aaron-sorkin-the-trial-of-chicago-7-1202974968/

Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632881-200-weird-caterpillar-uses-its-old-heads-to-make-an-elaborate-hat/

"Modern 72-hour predictions of hurricane tracks are more accurate than 24-hour forecasts were 40 years ago." #cososcience https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6425/342.full

"Although circumstances have unfortunately forced the upcoming 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference to be online-only, I thought it would be fun to look back 30 years to WWDC 1990, the second conference held (and the first for which a CD was published)." http://bslabs.net/2020/06/19/wwdc-1990/

Where have all the elegant fedoras, bowlers, news caps, and top hats gone? Fun article about haberdashery.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/25/wait-why-did-men-stop-wearing-hats/

"On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there, the new favorite among people who falsely say that Twitter is censoring conservatives, would start taking down content and shutting down accounts just like everyone else." https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-predicted-parler-is-banning-users-it-doesnt-like.shtml

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." --H. Aiken

TIL when an iPhone user texts another iPhone user the words pew pew, it sends lasers.

"In this paper, I explore the rise and fall of Gopher as the dominant protocol for file search and retrieval over the Internet." https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

When the FBI's Art Theft Program teamed up with a cultural anthropologist to investigate one man’s private collection, they began a yearslong project to return cultural objects and human remains to their rightful homes. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/fbi-repatriation/

Scaling up: about the world of fake fish https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-faux-fish-coming-to-a-restaurant-near-you/

>The virus has given us a picture, at once frightening and beautiful, of a world without tourism. We see now what happens to our public goods when tourists aren’t clustering to exploit them. #longread
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/18/end-of-tourism-coronavirus-pandemic-travel-industry

MuckRock is sending Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to every NY police department to demand the release of all disciplinary records. "We’re working to make as many of these previously secret documents public as we can." https://www.muckrock.com/project/new-york-officer-misconduct-and-disciplinary-materials-778/

"We tend to believe lower-income people need less than those on higher incomes, and that this in turn restricts our perceptions about what is acceptable for this group to buy." https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/06/16/why-are-we-so-quick-to-scrutinise-how-low-income-families-spend-their-money/

Tolkien’s mythic plan for England https://unherd.com/2020/06/is-this-tolkiens-vision-of-england/

"We’re spacing out the restaurants to 50 percent capacity—so every other table. We don’t expect to make a profit here, but we want to keep the brand relevant during this period. Hopefully, we can start pushing the takeout option, so the dine-in is almost like marketing for take-out.”

https://stories.zagat.com/posts/reopening-rebranding-and-resetting-the-menu-at-baekjeong

Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet. https://www.wired.com/story/why-nasa-designed-a-new-dollar23-million-space-toilet

4 lessons software teams can learn from rock bands

You wouldn’t put together a band where all four musicians played the guitar. Somebody needs to drum and sing. Similarly, QA teams need specialists across a range of skill sets and experience. And that’s just one of the rock-and-roll lessons that creative teams can learn.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/4-lessons-software-teams-can-learn-from-rock-bands/

How People Read Online https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-people-read-online/