Yeah, you DO need this. https://mobile.twitter.com/TheDebbieMia/status/1459766435392204801

RIP Stephen Sondheim.

Now I'm struggling to decide which of his shows to watch tonight.
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/178605/legendary-broadway-songwriter-stephen-sondheim-dies-at-91/

"My giant chicken has done exactly what I wanted it to do and that's promote the city of Fitzgerald." https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.6261125/georgia-politician-stands-by-giant-topiary-chicken-that-got-him-ousted-as-mayor-1.6261128

Some Indigenous peoples in the U.S. Southwest have a long relationship with turkeys, which they use for their feathers, eggs, meat, and more https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/native-americans-turkey/

A seasonal thought https://twitter.com/twwgifs/status/1463950409047973889

"For his classes on westward expansion, Rawitsch decided to try something a little safer: a board game with a big map and some toy covered wagons." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/oregon-trail-game-history-inventor-don-rawitsch.html

I had never associated Thanksgiving a matter associated with abolitionists but okay...?! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war

I’n not sure that I agree with Jason’s espresso machine conclusions (our friendship is based on friendly arguments) but it’d be a start for those who are shopping. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/cnn-underscored/best-home-espresso-machine/index.html

Time to get into the holiday mood? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/652122/disturbing-vintage-holiday-cards

The collections of the National Museum of American History document the development of adding machines, from stylus-operated models to increasingly compact, light and powerful key driven instruments. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/adding-machines

Data artist Nicholas Rougeux has digitally recreated Scottish painter Patrick Syme’s 1821 guidebook to German mineralogist Abraham Werner’s color system. https://www.c82.net/werner/

"Two US representatives ...want to know all about the standard ebook licensing agreements for every major publisher they work with." https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-library-news/the-us-is-investigating-the-terms-ebook-distributors-charge-libraries

Solve the chip shortage! https://blog.robertelder.org/how-to-make-a-cpu/

"We still live in a world full of armchair diagnosticians who call women crazy. But they’re not hoping these women get treatment; they want the women to control displays of emotions they deem unacceptable." https://alexiscoe.substack.com/p/why-do-we-think-mary-lincoln-was

An infinite number of people walk into a bar...
The first orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third orders a quarter beer. The fourth orders an eighth of a beer...
The bartender pulls out two beers and tells them to know their limits.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain

A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints” https://weatherspark.com/map