Here's a pitch for a role-playing game from 1994. Diablo turned out to be one of the most successful games in history. http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf

Christie’s will present an autograph letter from the 26-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten (estimate: £300,000–500,000) declaring that he will need to get married within two days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of being dragged out of his house by the police. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/dramatic-mozart-scandal-letter-christies

Hippie Soap Opera

It's worthwhile just for the quality of the writing. #longread https://www.gq.com/story/dr-bronners-corporate-success

When this Tindallgram was published on June 6th, 1966, nasa had received information from MIT that the software going into space would be late. Tindall went to MIT to see what could be done about the schedule. https://two-wrongs.com/tindall-on-software-delays.html

Cats have only miaowed since the 1600s; before then, they mauled, wrawed, mawed, and—earliest of all—kewted. https://www.haggardhawks.com/so/a0OZow9fF

Scientists estimate that Nördlingen and the surrounding area contain approximately 72,000 tons of the gemstone. The diamonds are the result of an asteroid, which struck this area of Bavaria, a federal state in southern Germany, some 15 million years ago.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/german-town-contains-millions-diamonds-180961467/

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery
https://www.charlesdickensillustration.org/

Sweet dreams are made of cheese... Who am I to dis a brie? (Some of them want to ooze you. Some of them want to be oozed by you.)

Will subjecting barrels of whiskey to loud music while aging affect the flavor of the spirit? Metallica certainly thinks so.
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/metallica-blackened-whiskey-72-seasons-batch-1234859967/

Seventy years ago, a group of stubborn Philadelphia scientists and a brave 18-year-old pushed surgery to its final frontier.
https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/a-fix-for-the-unfixable-making-the-first-heart-lung-machine/

"People who work for themselves can be prone to long hours, lax boundaries around work-life balance and a nagging feeling that they’re never quite doing enough."
I've seen this behavior. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230614-the-quiet-guilt-of-self-employment

I feel seen

A 20-year effort to rid Lehua Island in Hawaii of rats was recently successfully concluded, and the focus has now shifted to luring back native birds like the ʻuaʻu (Hawaiian petrel), ‘ewa‘ewa (sooty tern), and ‘akē‘akē (band-rumped storm petrel). https://hakaimagazine.com/news/calling-in-the-seabirds

Cloud appreciation society https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Here is Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, promoting Windows 1.0.
(I have no idea what the Miami Vice reference is about.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ

The Annotated Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
https://www.bloovis.com/pages/lamb/

The 42 Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-42-Best-Pens-for-2023-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

How to Install and Use Redis on Windows 11
Learn how to control a WSL installation of the #Redis database from the #Windows command line.
https://redis.com/blog/install-redis-windows-11/

Helen Keller, 1933: "History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them." https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/helen-keller-writes-a-letter-to-nazi-students-before-they-burn-her-book.html

I love this visualization and sonification by NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4DbU1CWAY