The US government authorized the PAWS ACT (Puppies Assisting Wounded Service members for Veterans Therapy) authorizing service dogs for veterans with PTSD. The dogs will learn how to shield a veteran from an overwhelming crowd or wake them up if they're having a nightmare. At the end of the program, the veteran trainers will be able adopt their canine pupils. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031285993/veterans-can-train-and-adopt-service-dogs-under-a-new-law-signed-by-biden

“In BMI’s early digital days, we made more money from ringtones than anything else; it accounted for more than half of our income stream. And now when you think about it, it’s basically zero.” https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/tech/mobile/ringtones-phones-decline/index.html

My Amazon review of _The Town House_ -- The Suffolk Trilogy Book 1, by Norah Lofts

Why did it take me so long to discover this classic historical novel?! https://amzn.to/3DTDeSO

What happens when you try out a seriously heavy distortion pedal on a harp? This harpist decided to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNINWMqxQQc

The suitably incredible business letterhead of Nikola Tesla, circa 1900. https://www.letterheady.com/post/408940589/tesla

Kunsman, who teaches photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is engaged in a multiyear project to document every surviving pay phone in and around the city in upstate New York. As of 2018 that would be 1,455 phones. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-31/where-can-i-find-a-pay-phone-eric-kunsman-documents-america-s-last-phones

"Tech platforms such as Facebook or Google have legal protection under Section 230 for content they host. But that doesn't mean they won't face excruciating decisions about whether to comply with subpoenas for user data — the sort of orders they comply with in lots of other legal cases today."
https://www.protocol.com/policy/the-texas-abortion-ban-could-force-tech-to-snitch-on-users

For your OH PRETTY contemplation https://newatlas.com/photography/best-underwater-photography-awards-2021-through-your-lens-gallery/

I wish I had time to take one of these online classes. THEY LOOK SO COOL. https://royal-needlework.org.uk/courses/day-classes/

The covid pandemic isn’t a game. Until now. This free site called CEO of Pandemic lets you choose your country, then your goal is to achieve herd immunity without killing the economy. https://pandemiceo.com

The memoir that shocked Paris https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210726-the-scandalous-memoir-of-the-lost-generation

The term for "fear of palindromes" is aibohphobia.

That's just cruel.

"Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now."

The jet defined an age not because it gave people a new view from above but because it transformed subjective experience – extending its characteristic ‘nonexperience’ to life on the ground, in the form of a jet-age aesthetic. https://aeon.co/essays/digital-culture-built-on-the-seamless-speed-of-the-jet-age

"Thanks to a decade and a half of nearly constant strategy changes, competing product launches, and internal sabotage, you can't say Google has a dominant or even stable instant messaging platform today." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

"If you're ever in the mood for some internet-based nostalgia, we've got you covered. We rounded up 9 websites that'll bring you back to the old internet." https://mashable.com/article/nostalgic-websites

It's AdBlock, but instead of removing ads it replaces them with cats
Note that I haven't tried this personally. But c'mon. Cats. https://getcatblock.com