Many cartoon characters from the early days of film and TV, such as Mickey and Bugs, have their roots in minstrel shows. ...This influence is also partly the reason why characters like Mickey and Goofy are always depicted wearing white gloves. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210715-has-hollywood-animation-truly-left-racism-behind

Sometimes, an errant keystroke is all it takes to bring critical systems offline. And unlike text messages and email, these systems don’t usually have autocorrect tools to step in and save the day. https://rootly.io/blog/the-incident-review-4-times-when-typos-brought-down-critical-systems

Feed me!

Researchers discovered a bookmark featuring drawings by Vincent van Gogh in an illustrated novel about the French Revolution
https://mymodernmet.com/van-gogh-illustrated-bookmark/

The advantage has nothing to do with penmanship—it’s that the simple act of writing by hand provides a perceptual-motor experience that unifies what is being learned about the letters (their shapes, their sounds, and their motor plans), which in turn creates richer knowledge and fuller, true learning. https://www.futurity.org/handwriting-learning-reading-2594172-2/

"It’s taken me a lot of years, but I’ve come around to this: If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you." —Isaac, in Sports Night (as written by Aaron Sorkin)

The stupid IT BURNS US! https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-worlds-freedom-phone-actually-budget-chinese-phone

Nobody teaches us how to ignore something. We're always told to pay attention. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/05/to-navigate-all-the-junk-on-the-internet-you-need-powers-of-critical-thinking-but-also-critical-ignoring

These menus would feature the list of items, but no prices, as it was assumed that the man would pay for the meal. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ladies-menus-no-prices-lawsuit

"Dirtbag medievalism might gesture toward historical accuracy, but it is not too worried about it."

A fun read!
http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2021/07/14/dirtbag-medievalism/

Amazing timelapse drone footage of a giant herd of sheep. https://www.bravozuluaerials.com/copy-of-maritime-subpage

This website is hosted on a Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
http://fxip.as203478.net/

THANK GOD SOMEONE IS FOCUSING ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUES. Heinz has started a petition to make packs of hot dogs and buns come in equal quantities. https://www.cnet.com/news/heinz-starts-petition-to-make-hot-dogs-and-buns-come-in-equal-packs/

TIL There's a website that does food recipes based off of TV shows https://www.feastofstarlight.com/

May the odds be ever in your favor. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56915767

Did you hear that the inventor of autocorrect died? The funeral is tomato.

>> We pitched it as “Clueless” meets “The Paper Chase.” ... It transformed from nonstop zingers that were very adult in nature to this universal story of overcoming adversity by being oneself.

This is a fun read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/movies/legally-blonde-oral-history.html