“I’m making progress, but I’ve given up on any hope of predicting the end. Every time I do, I don’t make it and everybody gets mad at me, and there’s no sense. It’ll be done when it’s done." https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-george-r-r-martin

Something to celebrate -- especially for my trans friends but also everyone who loves someone who's affected.

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1559545322736599041

Ring tones are a neglected part of electronic music history, they argue.

This is a fun read.
https://www.theverge.com/c/23290332/nokia-ringtones-music-history

No strings attached!
Ms Lennon has been campaigning to end period poverty since 2016 and has previously described the bill as both "practical" and "progressive". https://news.sky.com/story/scotland-to-become-first-country-in-world-to-provide-free-period-products-12672840

The PDP-11 was introduced in 1970, a time when most computing was done on expensive GE, CDC, and IBM mainframes that few people had access to.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/a-brief-tour-of-the-pdp-11-the-most-influential-minicomputer-of-all-time/

The number of Americans living without health insurance has hit a record low of 8%. Since 2020, 5.2 million more people have received coverage, with the biggest uptake by people below the federal poverty line. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/hhs-us-uninsured-rate-reaches-record-low-8-q1-amid-aca-medicaid-gains

"The Jerry Garcia Archive, a collaborative venture between the Jerry Garcia Foundation and online storage platform Starchive, will serve as an online resource, a digital library of Garcia information and fan submissions." https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/07/31/jerry-garcia-birthday-archive-grateful-dead-launch/65379822007/

“We want people to see that an older game like this can be brought back, and brought back in a beautiful way—and in a fun way—for today’s audiences.” https://www.wired.com/2022/08/geeks-guide-kings-quest-creators/

"Last month, when officers went to his address to arrest him, they noticed a large teddy bear on the property that appeared not to be entirely inanimate." https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/car-thief-in-uk-jailed-after-being-caught-hiding-inside-a-giant-teddy-bear-3245759

Women Don't Like Men Who Pose for Pictures With Cats, But Dogs Are a Plus https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/6/1007

TIL that roughly 10% of Americans identify as vegetarian or vegan.
Just a "how 'bout that." I wouldn't have been able to guess at the correct percentage.
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/1-in-10-americans-say-they-dont-eat-meat-a-growing-share-of-the-population/

Running apps can help runners of all ages and abilities keep track of their runs and chart their progress. Here’s the best running apps Carol Pinchefsky tested.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/best-running-apps

Combing the full transcripts of Star Trek: The Next Generation generates more than 1,000 lines of dialogue between the show’s characters and the starship Enterprise’s computer. Discover each line’s phrasing, character, interaction type, etc. https://www.speechinteraction.org/TNG/index.html

CoSo tech support please? I sent a few friends this link but they all tell me that they get a response, "Sorry, this CounterSocial member has either not enabled their PLP - PUBLIC LANDING PAGE, or has a locked account."

I'm not locked out, am I?

attn @th3j35t3r https://counter.social/web/statuses/108795542017553808

Back in 2007, I cheered the demise of tech stuff that used to get in our way but no longer presents a barrier. These technologies remind us that times have changed, and that sometimes change really is for the better. Hmm, I wonder how I'd update it today. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2286975/technologies-we-re-glad-are-dead.html

"The manual transmission’s impending disappearance feels foreboding not (just) because shifting a car is fun and sensual, but also because the gearshift is—or was—a powerful cultural symbol of the human body working in unison with the engineered world." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/stick-shift-manual-transmission-cars/671078/

Scores of historic jazz performances from the 1950s and 1960s are available on The Ed Sullivan Show's YouTube channel
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2022/08/03/the-wealth-of-jazz-on-the-ed-sullivan-show/

Facebook why oh why do you have to be such jerks?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion

Jerry is dead, of course, but just like the rest of us, Jerry has been going through some heavy changes, too.
https://lithub.com/fresh-updates-on-the-dead-on-jerry-garcias-current-status-in-the-spirit-realm/

Is your software running slowly… or is your system actually experiencing an outage? Honestly, sometimes it’s hard to know. Latency can be just as problematical as having the lights go out. https://redis.com/blog/how-to-reduce-latency-and-minimize-outages/