Featuring ingots, shipwrecks, pharaohs and an international trade in colors, the material’s rich history is being traced using modern archaeology and materials science https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/ancient-origins-glass

"My pieces came back so fast I began to believe The New Yorker must have a rejection machine."--James Thurber, on submitting articles. (It's his birthday today.)

By the 1700s, samplers were being worked by young women to learn basic needlework skills. Samplers are important representations of early American female education and this group features 50 of the 137 American samplers in the Textile Collection. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/american-samplers

It doesn’t help that the post-work future is so often envisioned as the AIs doing all the labor, leaving humans free to spend their days making art. But what if the AIs are better at making art too?
https://electricliterature.com/i-got-an-artificial-intelligence-to-write-my-novel/

4 ways to overcome languishing on video calls: (a) increase mobility (b) reduce eye contact intensity by sitting farther away (c) turn off your self-view, and (d) reduce cognitive load by holding audio-only sessions. https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/

A lovely retrospective of the Whole Earth Catalog and The Well https://daily.jstor.org/the-whole-earth-catalog-where-counterculture-met-cyberculture/

Emoji to scale https://javier.xyz/emoji-to-scale/

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, economic growth would mean that we would be working no more than 15 hours per week.
(and a shoutout to Tom DeMarco in this worthy longread, too)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives

My computer desk circa 1987. Dig the Okidata 92 dot matrix printer!

I'm here for Sled Zeppelin https://www.mdislander.com/maine-news/plow-naming-contest-does-not-disappoint

Dinner last night (using Cassava orzo). Two thumbs up: tasty, and both fast and easy to put together.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020330-shrimp-scampi-with-orzo

Oh, my. These gowns look like they came straight out of Downton Abbey.
https://www.antiquetrader.com/collectibles/rare-callot-soeurs-gowns-found-in-trunks

Say what?

Dozens of hacked printers across the internet are printing out an anti-work manifesto. It encourages workers to discuss their pay with coworkers, and pressure their employers to pay them more.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos

How to Remember What You Read: "Time is our most valuable resource, so we shouldn’t waste it. The investment we make in reading should have a positive, lasting impact on our lives." https://fs.blog/remember-books/

"The case borders on the ridiculous, if it were not for the fact we are talking about a gesture of enormous gravity," the head of the Piedmont regional government, Albert Cirio, said in a statement. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59524527

How the tamagotchi helped to pave the way for the games of today. https://www.wired.com/story/tamagotchi-25-year-anniversary-impact/