Kodak is upping film prices around the world by as much as 40% in a blow for photography hobbyists who like to do things the analog way. https://petapixel.com/2023/01/11/kodak-poised-to-raise-the-price-of-film-by-up-to-40/

What do you call an apology written in dots and dashes?

Re-morse code. #jokes

"A stunning album of 355 of the original prints by the man who came to be known as Snowflake Bentley was bought by London’s Natural History Museum in 1899, and the collection has now been digitised and made available to view online." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/04/snowflake-bentleys-19th-century-images-of-snow-crystals-put-online

While this lunisolar calendar brings people together, different countries and cultures have their own legends and customs surrounding the New Year. Even the animal associated with the year can vary.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/world/this-lunar-year-will-be-the-year-of-the-rabbit-or-the-year-of-the/article_2e25df22-7fc3-55c4-a853-7c33e94f5753.html

5 Unintended Consequences of Photography
Within a decade, almost every city in America had a daguerreotype studio, and travelling photographers in their darkroom-wagons were photographing settlers and Native Americans on the frontier. And, just a few years later, photography was shaping the destiny of the American people. Here are five of photography’s unintended consequences.
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/08/5-unintended-consequences-of-photography/

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember that it made a peculiar sound. But despite becoming so familiar, it remained a mystery for most of us. What do these sounds mean? https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

Sadly, the world’s oldest person has passed. Sister Andre, or Lucile Randon, was 118 and had lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, two world wars, and even beat Covid. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/worlds-oldest-person-lucile-randon-dies-aged-118-733313

"We couldn't help but notice that one of the very same AI-generated articles that Guglielmo highlighted in her post makes a series of boneheaded errors that drag the concept of replacing human writers with AI down to earth." https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-errors

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An Indian startup has introduced a $1,200 fine if employees contact colleagues who are on vacation, ensuring they can truly disconnect from work.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-startup-dream-sports-employees-fine-contact-staff-vacation-2023-1

These boots aren't made for walking
https://www.tiktok.com/@desertbotanicalgarden/video/7182682966219492654

I've fallen into the Colette Clark mysteries -- with a 1920s flapper as sleuth -- and I don't really want to leave. Good, fun, escapist fiction. https://amzn.to/3wjINat

Mastodon Web Space Search lets you search for Instances in two ways — by language or keyword — and then search those instances using Google. It only finds Instances with more than 200 active users.

via @researchbuzz ...and OMG if you don't follow her fix that immediately. https://searchgizmos.com/mwss/

Can scrutinizing the ailments of historical figures really teach us anything? https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/diagnosing-the-dead

Niche Museums: Find tiny museums near you
https://www.niche-museums.com

RIP David Crosby. He played the soundtrack to my life. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-crosby-dead-obituary-1234664235/

"In 2021, Schaart and one of his students, Nils Leibrock, became particularly interested in coffee and using the CRISPR system to quiet the caffeine-making pathway inside Coffea Arabica." https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/decaf-coffee-genetic-engineering.html

My Amazon review of The Official Guinness Cookbook: Good ideas for what to do with it OTHER than drink it straight-up.
https://amzn.to/3GKoW9a