How personality traits affect the open source development process
Perhaps you are a skilled technologist. But beware: If your personality is as scintillating as a dish rag, you could jeopardize your open source projects.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/how-personality-traits-affect-the-open-source-development-process/

"The 21st-century city is the child of catastrophe. The comforts and infrastructure we take for granted were born of age-old afflictions: fire, flood, pestilence. Our tall buildings, our subways, our subterranean conduits, our systems for bringing water in and taking it away, our building codes and public-health regulations—all were forged in the aftermath of urban disasters by civic leaders and citizen visionaries."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/how-disaster-shaped-the-modern-city/615484/

How do musicians' brains sync with music?
New research has some answers. https://www.futurity.org/rhythm-brains-music-synchronization-2432502-2/

You know the cats will love this cat food... until I order another entire case of it. #LifeWithCats https://amzn.to/3h5cORe

The Presidential Library Explorer, launched this month, provides a more efficient way for visitors to search through records in the libraries’ holdings.

(Let's leave out the obvious comments, shall we?)

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/presidential-library-explorer

Church leader who blamed Covid-19 on gay marriage contracts virus
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/church-leader-coronavirus-gay-marriage-a4542366.html

This list is a challenge, isn't it?
(I already killed a Lucky Bamboo, though I admit it took me 5 years.)
https://modernfarmer.com/2020/09/5-unkillable-houseplants-for-the-lazy-gardener/

Who among us cannot relate? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54051423

An Ohio man built a backyard squirrel bar with seven varieties of nuts on tap.
"The whole reason I even started to make this is because my neighbor bird watches with her daughter and told me all of the squirrels keep getting in her way. I didn't even tell her what I was going to do, I just built it and put it back there and when she saw it, she just started cracking up."
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/squirrel-bar-tap-nuts-ohio-woodworking-trnd/index.html

For Labor Day: celebrating American labor with resources from the American Folklife Center. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/category/holidays/labor-day

Precious maps, books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years
(This is an amazing story.) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-library-books-maps-artworks-180975506/

I'm going to make a king-sized quilt for our own bed. I'm fairly sure this is what I'll use as the focus fabric.

https://www.equilter.com/product/259199/amber-reflections-leaf-glow-stripe-nutmeg-brown

Well OF COURSE Weird Al would do Hamilton as a polka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEdEDbhTQw

"With the internet outages in Belarus, we see just what can happen when an over-dependence on centralized internet and a select few major companies meets national censorship, and what—if anything—can be done about it." https://gizmodo.com/belarus-turned-off-the-internet-its-citizens-hot-wired-1844853575

What are Americans reading most during the pandemic? Books about race, romance novels, and Hilary Mantel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2020-book-trends/2020/09/02/6a835caa-e863-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html

RIP Jack Rickard, founder of Boardwatch magazine https://www.semissourian.com/story/2831878.html

These birds’ mating dances are amazing and, at times, hilarious. https://www.audubon.org/news/10-outrageous-ways-birds-dance-impress-their-mates

Look, folks, people will do AMAZING things for cake. https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/27/finnish-town-offers-locals-cake-and-other-rewards-for-cutting-co2-emissions

This is what democracy looks like.

>> While the US has long been home to a vibrant protest environment, demonstrations surged to new levels in 2020. Between 24 May and 22 August, ACLED records more than 10,600 demonstration events across the country. Over 10,100 of these — or nearly 95% — involve peaceful protesters. Fewer than 570 — or approximately 5% — involve demonstrators engaging in violence.

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/