12 Different Ways to Organize the Periodic Table of Elements https://www.visualcapitalist.com/different-periodic-table-visualizations/

Back in 2009, I interviewed Mark Shuttleworth about leadership and organizational change. This was one of my favorite interviews ever. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2769650/mark-shuttleworth-s-five-lessons-on-organizational-change.html

In 2021, just 3% of Black white-collar “knowledge workers” wanted to return to full-time in-office work, compared with 21% of white ones https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-08-08/remote-work-racism-reprieve-return-to-office

The product, the $60,000 Sondek LP12-50, is a limited-edition record player designed by Ive’s firm in conjunction with the British audio company Linn. https://www.fastcompany.com/90919569/jony-ive-first-hardware-project-post-apple

George Bernard Shaw’s writing hut included “an electric heater, a typewriter, a bunk for Napoleonic naps and a telephone to the house which could be used for emergencies such as lunch: surely everything a writer could need.” https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/essex-bedfordshire-hertfordshire/shaws-corner

Your awww du jour https://petapixel.com/2023/08/11/kitten-sneak-attack-wins-comedy-pet-photo-awards/

It may be time to get rid of our hang-ups regarding offal. Not only can offal be a more sustainable choice, in many cases, offal meats are actually more nutritious than their skeletal meat counterparts. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/08/offaly-delicious-can-the-us-learn-to-love-organ-meats-again

A Tesla Model X totaled in the U.S. late last year suddenly came back online and started sending notifications to the phone of its former owner months later. (This is about data privacy, not particularly Tesla.) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/10/how-totaled-tesla-sold-for-parts-in-us-came-back-online-in-ukraine.html

Food for thought via John L Battelle: "As we’ve adapted to a life lived extremely online, we’ve often made millions of tiny, unconscious choices that, taken together, can steer our futures in ways that prevent a flourishing society." https://battellemedia.com/archives/2023/07/digital-is-killing-serendipity

When you experiment with a new-to-you data science skill, you need some sort of data to work with. I figure: Why be boring?
https://redis.com/blog/datasets-for-test-databases/

Passersby could wander at will into grand public libraries in imperial Rome. Could they trust what they found inside? https://aeon.co/essays/romes-libraries-were-shrines-to-knowledge-and-imperial-power

Robbie Robertson of the Band has died, age 80.

The soundtrack of my teen years is getting awfully fragile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqb1I-hiHE

Zoom’s own survey found that nearly 70% of workers want to choose whether they work remotely, in person, or a mix of both. https://qz.com/zoom-ironic-remote-work-office-policy-1850714718

"Depending on who you ask, Branson is either the Live Music Capital of the World or Baptist Vegas. Home to a little more than 12,000 people year-round, it’s a place that sits right at the heart of the Bible Belt while boasting more theater seats than Broadway in New York City."
https://www.eater.com/23815671/branson-missouri-dinner-theater-live-music-performance-dolly-parton-stampede/

The Web Design Museum showcases websites from the 1990s through the mid-2000s https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

If you’re adopting #microservices, you need a monitoring tool to track whether the software works correctly–and that means you need useful criteria for choosing such a tool.

...and so I wrote down what they are.
https://redis.com/blog/choose-microservice-monitoring-tool/

Check out this interactive visualization exploring why certain flooring can make heatwaves feel so much worse than they actually are. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE/URBAN-HEAT/zgpormdkevd/

Four million people pledged to read a certain number of books in 2018, with an average goal of 61 titles. About 16 percent met theirs. https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a44567428/the-gamification-of-reading-is-changing-how-we-approach-books/

Shaka would like you to know that you are celebrating International Cat Day wrong.

People comfortably tell you that every job interview is an audition. But few people tell you how an actor gets past the audition to get the part. In 2009, I wrote about lessons from a famous acting book.

(And GOSH I had fun writing that.)

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2072952/learning-job-interview-skills-from-actors.html