Our ability to taste sweet and salty flavors drops significantly while flying. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150112-why-in-flight-food-tastes-weird

ha ha ha ha https://www.aiweirdness.com/try-these-neural-network-generated-17-08-06/

I think I'm gonna re-route my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to LA via Omaha

[Today's soundtrack]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg

"An online database allows you to search through nearly 300 third-party DnD settings so you can find the perfect place to start your next D&D 5e campaign." https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/search-settings

My review of _The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N_

I have a mixed reaction to this book. It is still amusing, but not in the ways that I think my parents perceived it. https://amzn.to/3qmTwkD

James Wade, a professor in the English department at University of Cambridge, serendipitously stumbled across a manuscript that he thinks may be an ultra-rare glimpse of a minstrel’s live repertoire that reflects modern tropes of British humor, such as Monty Python’s murderous rabbit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkag99/a-medieval-comedy-act-has-been-discovered-in-first-ever-find-researcher-says

"A better analogy for progress is a young lake, growing from the continual melting of a glacier. As water is added to the lake, progress happens along all edges of the lake, all at the same time, continuously, and gradually. With this viewpoint, new technology doesn’t develop linearly from the old, it grows outwards from the centre." https://sookocheff.com/post/opinion/progress-is-a-lake-not-a-line/

"The characters and people in these books are variously lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans, and nonbinary." Just in time for Pride Month! https://lithub.com/literary-lovers-a-sapphic-reading-list-for-every-mood/

How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices, and forces
https://aeon.co/essays/how-medieval-thinkers-did-physics-without-knowing-it

Tutorial: Use Redis VSS in an LLM chain with Relevance AI, Redis VSS, OpenAI GPT, and Cohere Wikipedia embeddings for data retrieval and context. https://redis.com/blog/using-redis-vss-in-llm-chain/

Archive Stumbler for the Internet Archive seems like "StumbleUpon for the Internet Archive." https://archive-stumbler.glitch.me/

"Those red states weren’t creating jobs faster. They were just hiring more often because folks were bouncing around more. Red states don’t have more layoffs or job openings than blue ones, they just have more quits and hires." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/26/hiring-red-blue-states/

If you're looking for inexpensive resistance bands for your workouts, these'll do. https://amzn.to/45Rc7pt

Interactive Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel https://notbadcoffee.com/flavor-wheel-en/

Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers.
https://zealdocs.org/

Cigarette smoking in the United States dropped to another all-time low last year, with the percentage of adult smokers falling to 11%. In the 1960s, 42% of US adults were smokers. https://apnews.com/article/how-many-people-smoke-us-64987fe2b7bf764c64d4594e5b02e6ea

There are only about 130,000 public chargers currently installed across the country, and just a small fraction of them are fast chargers. That’s a 40% increase since 2020, according to the EPA press release, but it’s still not enough.
Interesting just for the data collection, IMO. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/12/1071437/evs-just-got-a-big-boost-were-going-to-need-a-lot-more-chargers

Rabbit hole alert!

Every single dot on this interactive graphic (desktop only) represents an event in history. https://histography.io/