Immensely useful! "Did you know your smartphone’s camera can also double as a flatbed scanner It’s not only fast and convenient to scan something when away from your computer, but the quality is surprisingly good, thanks to much better camera sensors and smarter software." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/turn-smartphone-flatbed-scanner-sign-163309887.html

I can recite every word of this album accurately, even after all these years. Sometimes the moment just before he says the line, but OMG I must have heard this 50 times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFeD8svMzw

A sequel to the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap is in the works with the original director and cast.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/12/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel

"Confidently citing Bracton, while remaining silent about Britton or the Mirror of Justices, seems a little too political a move. How can Alito be certain that abortion was a felony in medieval England when the justices of the era were clearly divided?" https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2022/05/13/alitos-leaked-draft-majority-opinion-and-the-medieval-history-of-abortion/

Found it!

Fifty-five percent of organizations in North America will offer their employees “Summer Fridays” this year, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. This is a 9% increase from the number of North American organizations that offered Summer Fridays in 2018, and a 43% increase from the number of organizations globally that had similar benefits back in 2012.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-06-06-more-than-half-of-organizations-are-offering--summer-

Found it!

Fifty-five percent of organizations in North America will offer their employees “Summer Fridays” this year, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. This is a 9% increase from the number of North American organizations that offered Summer Fridays in 2018, and a 43% increase from the number of organizations globally that had similar benefits back in 2012.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-06-06-more-than-half-of-organizations-are-offering--summer-

How common is it for businesses to have "summer hours," that is, Friday afternoons off? Is there data on this, beyond anecdotal experience?

Finally, a car with a built-in pizza holder http://www.multivu.com/players/English/8991552-7-eleven-unveils-completed-model-711-car/

“It’s interesting,” says Associate Prof Michal Carrington, a researcher in ethical consumption at Melbourne University. “Because you wouldn’t expect Dame Jane Goodall to be fronting a campaign for underwear.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/12/g-strings-in-the-mist-you-wouldnt-expect-jane-goodall-to-be-fronting-a-campaign-for-underwear

Measuring as tall as 11 feet, North America's largest cave drawings are discovered in Alabama. https://hyperallergic.com/731452/north-americas-largest-cave-art-discovered-in-alabama/

A stupendously wonderful interview with one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWssRVJgPqc

"Barfar constructed a dataset containing nearly 205,000 articles from 39 propagandistic and 30 trustworthy news sources and computed 92 linguistic features for each article. He then built predictive models that detect online propaganda."
https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2022/model-detects-online-propaganda

This entire thread makes me happy https://twitter.com/MissPavIichenko/status/1524250022757474305

Dunno about you, but in the 90s we commonly described these people saying, "He has a recto-cranial inversion." https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/some-notes-on-asshat-word-history

Lincoln College says it will close this week in the wake of a ransomware attack that took months to resolve. https://www.yahoo.com/news/lincoln-college-ransomware-attack-shut-down-covid-19-164917483.html

Oh, bummer. RIP Patricia A. McKillip.

Her life already IS a blessing for all who enjoyed her books. https://locusmag.com/2022/05/patricia-a-mckillip-1948-2022/

Mr Cook, who started to use typography to design art while doing his A-levels, creates his artworks from thousands of typed characters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-61291978

Cry rooms were an amenity of movie theaters starting in the 1940s. These were small areas at the back of a theater where those with unruly kids could continue to watch the film. http://cinelog.org/cinelog/2009/01/29/the-cry-room/

You may not have noticed it among the company’s bigger apps and services—it lives in the shadow of Gmail and Android—but Google Watchlist will log all the films you’re keen to see. https://www.popsci.com/diy/use-google-watchlist/

“The Mark of the Beast,” about the smallpox vaccine and the original anti-vaxxers
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-georgian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement