It's pumpkin spice season. Congratulations.
https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2014/starbucks-first-pumpkin-spice-latte

"We were curious about the changing role of the magazine cover in today’s hyperpolitical times, and what it’s like to create them in our relentless news cycle. So we brought together a cadre of the industry’s foremost minds to explore just that." https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-magazine-covers-became-political-posters-four-leading-art-directors-discuss

This is both incredibly funny and also thoughtful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39HBTxQAMdQ&t=1s

Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

Someone REALLY loves making French knots #embroidery https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/06/sew-beautiful-embroideries/

"Owl-inspired innovations can reduce noise by as much as 10 decibels, similar to the difference in noise between a passing truck and a passing car." https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound

Why we all went so nuts for generic scandi interior design after the 2008 credit crunch. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/27/18156431/recession-fashion-design-minimalism

"Researchers in Japan say they have found that dogs produce tears when reuniting with their owners. What's more, the blubbing appears to be linked to levels of the 'bonding hormone' oxytocin." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/22/dogs-produce-tears-when-reunited-with-owners-study-finds

I do like these Creative Zen headphones. Mostly. https://amzn.to/3AXq6g0

A deck is not a series of charts. A deck is a story.
https://musebycl.io/musings/slide-deck-changed-my-life

"Many users found its polite but presumptuous suggestions invasive, obnoxious, and creepy. Almost immediately, computer geeks and neophytes panned it. Microsoft banished it. Time labeled it one of the 50 worst inventions ever. But nearly three decades after its genesis at the Redmond tech giant, Clippit—better known as Clippy—improbably lives on." https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/08/origin-story-of-clippy-the-microsoft-office-assistant

If you or a loved one have a pot conviction, New York will give you first dibs to sell marijuana, legally. It’s a move aimed at offering an advantage to people, disproportionately in Black and brown communities, harmed by the war on drugs. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/27/new-york-cannabis-social-equity-00053549

In 1926 the world’s bestselling author vanished for 11 days. Did she really go into hiding to frame her husband for murder? Historian Lucy Worsley reopens a case still shrouded in mystery/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/27/mystery-of-agatha-christie-disappearance

The British Library is digitising many of its manuscripts, rolls and charters connected with women from Britain and across Europe, and made between 1100 and 1600. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/08/hildegard-go.html

"The Unplugged investor pitch deck is a messy mix of these impossible claims, meaningless buzzwords, and outright fiction." https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/1058243/erik-prince-wants-to-sell-you-a-secure-smartphone-thats-too-good-to-be-true/

“I guess, like all teenagers, they don’t necessarily make sensible decisions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/seal-breaks-into-new-zealand-home-traumatises-cat-and-hangs-out-on-couch

This automated cringey LinkedIn post generator can give you hours of entertainment. https://viralpostgenerator.com

Since y'all are already thinking about espionage... https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/08/how-the-espionage-act-went-too-far/

"1:1 scale Enterprise models and sets have been recreated according to Star Trek canon, to visualize the history of Star Trek in new holographic mediums, so that future generations can experience franchise creator Roddenberry’s legacy with the highest levels of immersion and historical fidelity."
https://deadline.com/2022/08/roddenberry-archive-experiences-unveiled-at-las-vegas-star-trek-convention-1235099462/