Watch this space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNdG2JYXxY

An Asian American is about to save the world—and look jacked doing it. https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a36343557/simu-liu-shang-chi-marvel-superhero/

It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

"Formerly known as BBC Genome, the BBC’s Programme Index now makes the broadcaster’s archive more accessible than ever, with viewers able to browse over 10 million listings, 200,000 playable programmes and even early editions of Radio Times magazine." https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/bbc-new-archive-access-programmes-radio-times-newsupdate/

Interest in bubbles in the arts, literature, and sciences reached a high point in the seventeenth century, when they became closely associated with the concept of vanitas vanitatum, the fragility and transience of human life. https://daily.jstor.org/the-soap-bubble-trope/

Play any combination of these sounds to bring the comfort, and discomfort, of working from home. https://scoreascore.com/homesick

Research shows that the pay gap, which is well documented, partly stems from the ‘ask gap’: the difference in salary expectations between groups, which undercuts women and minorities in particular. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210615-how-the-salary-ask-gap-perpetuates-unequal-pay

This website lets you search through movies containing a given phrase. For instance, look for "I have a bad feeling about this" it shows you scenes where a character says it. https://www.playphrase.me/#/search

TIL that there are more dollar stores than CVS stores, Walgreens, Walmarts, and Targets combined. https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-dollar-stores/

ABBA's Dancing Queen... as folk. Wow this is lovely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuGoBnnj8I

Some very rare gold coins were found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk, England. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-57520248

Read Kurt Vonnegut’s words for the class of 1994.
>>The teacher whose name I thought of when we all remembered good teachers asked me one time, “What is it artists do?” And I mumbled something. “They do two things,” he said. “First, they admit they can’t straighten out the whole universe. And then second, they make at least one little part of it exactly as it should be. A blob of clay, a square of canvas, a piece of paper, or whatever.”
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/just-been-days

All these handymen were looking to invent something that could make them some money, so they came up with all sorts of weird irons and other gadgets. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/sad-iron-man/

"I found just one violet painting made before the Impressionist era began in 1863. Strangely, it looked like the greatest artists of the past epoch had ignored this colour – until the French Impressionists embraced it." https://psyche.co/ideas/why-it-took-us-thousands-of-years-to-see-the-colour-violet

Here's the difference in the world since my youth:

>> A replacement microphone was brought to Mr. Dershem, but at that point, he said in an interview on Saturday, he was frozen. Then his classmates at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, N.J., cheered for him to continue his speech.

Yes, we still have jerks like this principal. But now the community is behind the kid, not the conformists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/nyregion/new-jersey-valedictorian-lgbtq-speech.html

"Maricopa County will never use compromised equipment that could pose a risk to free and fair elections. As a result, the County will not use the tabulation equipment subpoenaed by the Arizona Senate in any future elections."

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMARIC/bulletins/2e5e5c4

Recreate the atmosphere of your favorite coworking space while working at home during lockdown https://hipstersound.com/ambient.html

Want a fun historical novel? I absolutely loved _Impersonator: a Roaring Twenties Mystery_. #cosobookclub
https://amzn.to/3joZ6xo