I've got a feeling '21
Is going to be a good year
Especially if you and me
See it in together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoW_0NuaPj4

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web

*Note to self: Find a way to work, "I have personally explained the process to you, Debra" into anything.

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1334606853515468804/photo/4

Americans are still buying plenty — retail sales have already risen beyond their pre-pandemic highs — but the shopping landscape has changed. https://www.vox.com/recode/21561046/death-rebirth-department-stores-retail-charts

Hint: I am old. https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-to-tell-if-youre-old

It isn't the holidays without... https://amzn.to/36CsnOd

Giphy released its most viewed gifs of 2020. I was pleasantly surprised. https://giphy.medium.com/giphys-most-viewed-gifs-of-2020-f198557f0080

Archaeologists discovered 12,500-year-old rock paintings in the Colombian Amazon. Tens of thousands of artworks depict humans and Ice Age animals including mastodon, horses, and fish. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/amazon-rainforest-ice-age-paintings-scli-intl/index.html

Can you guess the most popular romantic novel from each of the last six decades?
https://lithub.com/these-are-the-most-popular-romantic-novels-from-each-of-the-last-six-decades/

How hard can it be to make a gemstone? Plenty hard. People have been trying for almost 2,000 years, but success finally beckoned in 19th-century France. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/making-gemstones

For years, only the Los Angeles Free Press chronicled the many incidents of police violence in Los Angeles, making crucial connections between racial disenfranchisement and mass unrest. https://hyperallergic.com/570172/los-angeles-free-press-police-protests-coverage/

No one knows exactly how the nocturnal hunters manage their whisper-soft flight, yet it is inspiring the design of quieter airplanes, fans and wind turbines https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound

I am _so_ ready for a trip... emotionally.
11 Beautiful Train Stations That Have Their Very Own Hotels https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/train-station-hotels

This is how I feel when I deliver an article EARLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0x07YVe3Ag&feature=emb_logo

What amazing photographs
(might be triggering for some people)
https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2020/11/30/in-2020-ap-photographers-captured-a-world-in-distress

Resistance is futile. https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/turning-the-body-into-a-wire

An "exceptional, fully functional" Apple I, complete with its Woz-signed box, a circa-1976 Sanyo monitor and everything else you'd need to get this thing up and running again. All for the low, low price of $50,000! (Well, that's the starting bid.) https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm

Companies are starting to use automation and games to do interviews without interviewers—especially for high-turnover jobs like fast food and warehouse workers. Some are being asked to record their answers to questions, others are being asked to play games that test their skills and personalities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/video-job-interviews.html

Today it is widely assumed that medieval scholars thought the world was flat, but that is a myth largely invented in the 19th century. It was popularized in a work by Washington Irving that can be charitably called “imaginative history.” https://lithub.com/the-medieval-philosopher-who-outlined-the-basics-of-the-universe/

Former SFWA President Ben Bova died from COVID-19 related pneumonia and a stroke on November 29. Bova served two consecutive terms as SFWA President from 1990-1992.

Goddamit.

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/30/in-memoriam-ben-bova/