In a new visualization, Barrett Lyon and the Opte Project piece together a roughly 25-year time-lapse mapping the internet’s explosive growth. https://singularityhub.com/2021/02/28/this-video-shows-the-entire-internet-and-its-evolution-since-1997/

"There’s an increased request for booths where you can be more separate without having to deal with partitions. We don’t have anybody right now who wants to install partitions. Nobody wants to believe partitions will have to stay." https://stories.zagat.com/posts/designing-new-spaces-for-the-texas-restaurant-boom

Low Earth Orbit Visualization https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

How to install ownCloud on CentOS Stream

A popular open source alternative to Dropbox is ownCloud. This software provides easy and secure file storage and file sharing, and much more. Here’s how to get it going on CentOS. #Linux
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-install-owncloud-centos-stream-8/

Archaeologists are working with descendants to preserve the history of a community in Texas formed by Black freedmen and women after the Civil War. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/antioch-colony-texas/

"Edison claimed the nickel-iron battery was incredibly resilient, and could be charged twice as fast as lead-acid batteries. ... But the nickel-iron battery did have some kinks to work out." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210223-the-battery-invented-120-years-too-soon

Unlike the assemble-it-yourself furniture that the Swedish company is known for, these tiny homes come prebuilt and are constructed on a flatbed trailer, making it easy to tow your digs anywhere. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-tiny-house

YAY I HAVE A VACCINE APPOINTMENT!

"This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. This list represents a glimpse into our collective future." https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/24/1014369/10-breakthrough-technologies-2021/

Atolls form thanks to sea levels fluctuating cyclically over hundreds of thousands of years. https://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2021/how-coral-atolls-get-their-gorgeous-ring-shapes

Here are 11 women whose ill-treatment illustrates Hollywood’s alternative history.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/02/sexism-stands-at-the-door-11-female-film-makers-written-out-of-mainstream-hollywood-history

I WROTE A THING. (Again.)

Curbside delivery isn’t new, but the pandemic helped it take off. Here’s what to expect as it moves forward. https://www.economist.com/business/2021/03/06/how-to-get-hybrid-shopping-right

A 15th-century Ming Dynasty bowl turned up at a yard sale. The $35 find could be worth $500,000. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56262954

The Moonstruck house is for sale.
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/iconic-moonstruck-house-brooklyn-heights-sale

The cat did not appear bothered by its brush with danger, said its rescuers, who described it as "swaggering off" with the air of having somewhere else to be. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56271478

Virtual tours of spectacular buildings around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/mar/02/10-virtual-tours-spectacular-buildings-around-world-vr

Weaving blankets from the fur of man’s best friend sounds a bit like a folktale. But then zooarchaeologists in the Pacific Northwest probed buried bones and old Indigenous textiles for domestic dog DNA, writes Virginia Morell for Hakai Magazine. It turns out that small, white, woolly pups were part of the coastal communities for millennia and were likely selectively bred to bear bountiful coats. https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-them/

Make some JAZZ. Right here, right now, from your laptop. https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/

The “Lamborghini of chariots” was unearthed from Pompeii’s ashes. The vehicle’s intact state and fancy detailing revved archaeologists’ engines. http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/the-four-wheeled-processional-chariot-the-last-discovery-of-pompeii/