TIL Gene Wolfe developed the process for cooking Pringles potato crisps. https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/18515675/gene-wolfe-science-fiction-author

There’ve been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long
But now I think I’m able to carry on
It’s been a long, a long time comin’,
But I know, oh-oo-oh, a change gonna come, oh yes, it will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4

Vintage recipes from historical cookbooks
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/focus/food-science

As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.

This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner | Letter to the Postmaster General | October 1924
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-must-give-myself-the-sack

'If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?': Sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/05/if-the-aliens-lay-eggs-how-does-that-affect-architecture-sci-fi-writers-on-how-they-build-their-worlds

Explained: Why can't the stormtroopers in Star Wars shoot straight? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/04/why-cant-stormtroopers-shoot-straight

Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book, THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH. https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/josh-hawley/

"With all of that said, however, the DC Metropolitan Police and the FBI will probably need to look no further than a cursory Google search to identify many of the leaders of Wednesday's insurrection, as many of them took to social media both before and after the event to brag about it in detail. In short: you don't need fancy facial recognition tools to identify people who livestream their crimes."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/insurrectionists-social-media-presence-gives-feds-an-easy-way-to-id-them/

"The pandemic compressed perhaps as much as ten years of change into one year for the film industry." https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/media/movies-2021-box-office-streaming/index.html

Holy Moses let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there
What's his colour I don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IenHhmnNS8

Researchers claim they've come up with the world's first manufactured non-cuttable material, just 15 percent the density of steel and impervious to drills or angle grinders. They say it could make for indestructible bike locks and lightweight armor.
https://newatlas.com/materials/proteus-non-cuttable-bike-lock-armor

French wine thieves threw stolen wine at police. They used what they had at their disposal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/06/wine-thieves-turn-to-bottle-as-french-police-give-chase

Italy has begun a year of Dante anniversary events with a virtual Uffizi exhibition https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/01/italy-year-long-celebration-dante-700-anniversary-drawings

https://twitter.com/HNTurtledove/status/1346954294155567105/photo/1

I don't know about you, but I'm finding it extremely hard to concentrate on work right now.

Backslashes aren’t real (and other Ascii weirdness) https://marijnflorence.neocities.org/thegarden/12021/01/backslashes/

The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States https://www.ecowatch.com/great-american-rail-trail-2649733595.html