Jon Foreman neatly arranges rocks into colorful sculptures. https://kottke.org/21/11/beautifully-arranged-rock-sculptures

Type a song https://typatone.com

Holy crap, this bookstore. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/surreal-new-bookstore-opened-china

The Einstein Foundation Berlin is honoring the American physicist Paul Ginsparg and the Center for Open Science with the inaugural Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. Paul Ginsparg is the founder of the preprint server arXiv.org, the first platform to exchange scientific discoveries among scientists immediately, openly and globally without review- and paywall restrictions.
https://idw-online.de/en/news781515

"I have a friend who told me that the very best computer system ever built by mankind was by the Druids at Stonehenge. Well, that's an old story. But what I liked was that he felt the Druids didn't die out, they just went bankrupt trying to debug the software." — J. Finke.

"At launch, the Atari 800 retailed for $999 with 16K of RAM (about $3,387 when adjusted for inflation), and the Atari 400 with 8K retailed for $549 (about $1,861 today)."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90432140/how-atari-took-on-apple-in-the-1980s-home-pc-wars

Remnants of molecules and microbes in shards of cooking pots help researchers reconstruct prehistoric cuisines. On the menu: stews, cheese and fermented drinks. https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-did-ancient-people-eat

Someone collected all the Hugo/Nebula awards and nominations for novellas and short fiction, with links to the works available online https://great-moose.blogspot.com/2021/06/sf-award-years-1961-1980.html

“A group of players are stronger because of their differences from each other. You don’t want four fighters; you want a fighter, a cleric, a rogue and a wizard. In other words, you want a group that is powerful because of its diversity.” https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/nov/30/a-safe-haven-how-dungeons-dragons-is-slaying-social-anxiety

While straightness is front-and-center in the world of bodybuilding, homosexuality is everywhere and nowhere to be seen. https://thebaffler.com/latest/macho-macho-men-weil

Name a series that was good then got bad after a few books.
My entry: The Cross-Time Engineer. First book is great (present-day engineer sent back to 1231 in Poland), the rest careen downhill.

"Canning was initially used to keep soldiers and explorers fed, yet nobody knew why canning worked." https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/processed-food-science-and-the-modern-meal

"Zima sold a staggering 1.3 million barrels’ worth of product in 1994, giving it a near-instant 1 percent market share in the booze industry."
Personally, I associate it with Babylon 5, where Zima was a frequent advertiser. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76438/zomething-different-zima-story

"Our bias toward believing the worst about people is an insufficiently recognized reason that you should be skeptical about what you read. Misinformation is especially effective when it casts our fellow humans in a negative light."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/24/opinion/i-read-more-news-than-anyone-trust-me-people-are-better-than-were-led-think/

A City of Cable Cars: Wellington, New Zealand has over 300 individual, private cable cars to take residents up to their homes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/city-of-cable-cars-the-ups-and-downs-of-life-with-wellingtons-private-incline-lifts

Modern and classic domestic plugs and sockets from all over the world https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/

Architect Richard Morris Hunt wanted 31 statues on the facade of the museum, but he died before specifying what those designs above the columns should be. http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/06/unfinished-cornice-of-metropolitan.html

Émile-Antoine Bayard's Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emile-antoine-bayard-s-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870

Here’s seven things you probably didn’t know about the entertainment icon, Ms. Baker.
“There has been a slight error, I’m much too busy to die.”
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/25/seven-surprising-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-josephine-baker/

Did you know Pinball was illegal in NYC for over 30 years? America went through a period between 1940s and the 1970s when pinball was banned in many of the biggest cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/did-you-know-pinball-was-illegal-in-nyc-for-over-30-years