Yay, Bell Labs Innovations!
(for odd values of yay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5V1sxAKu5I

Doom is now playable on Twitter - sort of. Thanks to Tweet2Doom bot, you can send replies to the account with a list of actions - move, turn, shoot, etc. - and get a video clip of Doom showing the results sent back to you. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tweet2doom-lets-you-play-doom-via-twitter

"Negotiations have been taking place since last spring, and each side thinks the other has not made proposals that will lead toward an agreement replacing the five-year contract that expires at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 1." #baseball

https://apnews.com/article/mlb-sports-freddie-freeman-corey-seager-baseball-02c83177d2e68d6863c6a607b651c545

Analysis of debris at the site of an ancient city demolished by a cosmic impact has led an archaeologist and his colleagues to theorize the same event destroyed Sodom. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/asteroid-sodom/

Fortunately, they'll never figure out that rotary dial https://gizmodo.com/fisher-prices-iconic-toy-telephone-now-actually-makes-p-1847846984

This animation gives you a sense of the oceans' relative depths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C7sqVe2Vg

Yes, I sometimes do give out 1-star Amazon reviews. I just came across one of them from 2008. And I recall how I threw it across the room. https://amzn.to/3nrPHWf

As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, "If I'm going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman."
She removes all her clothing and asks, "Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?"
A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, "Here, iron this!" #jokes

The New York Public Library recommended "decadent cookbooks for true chocolate lovers." Right, like I could resist that. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/09/23/decadent-cookbooks-chocolate-lovers

Reverse engineering an unusual IBM modem board from 1965. https://www.righto.com/2021/09/reverse-engineering-unusual-ibm-modem.html

As one critic put it in 1908, the comic supplement appealed to people “who don’t care for fine shades of humor, because they can’t appreciate them.” https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/comics-old-school-distance-learning-tools

We’re not quitting because we’re weak. We’re quitting because we’re smart. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opinion/quitting-jobs-resignation-employment.html

The singles chart wasn’t created to be a ground-breaking format that would change the way we made, sold and listened to popular music for half a century. It wasn’t intended to be a cultural behemoth that united artists, record labels and fans in a feverish desire to answer one question - what was the most popular song this week? It wasn’t created to do any of that. It was created to sell advertising.
https://www.formatsunpacked.com/p/formats-unpacked-the-singles-chart

RIP psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who named the concept of flow. https://austinkleon.com/2021/10/21/a-state-of-flow/

RIP psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who named the concept of flow. https://austinkleon.com/2021/10/21/a-state-of-flow/

Texas Monthly’s 2021 list of the state’s 50 top BBQ joints. https://www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/top-50-bbq-2021/

Can you tell the difference? A very important quiz.
https://marvel-or-font.web.app

Can you tell the difference? A very important quiz.
https://marvel-or-font.web.app

TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map lets you search and browse nearly 500 active and planned undersea internet cables, the longest of which spans 39,000 kilometers and connects four continents. https://www.submarinecablemap.com