I was just telling someone about _Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat_ and dug up my review of it. Now I want to read the book again. Gosh, it's fun. https://amzn.to/3FarE7r

"A new speaker can rearrange its seven 'self-deploying' microphones to partition a room into so-called 'speech zones,' allowing it to track and identify different voices, even as they move." https://futurism.com/the-byte/speaker-that-mutes-people

Mood

Ring Announces Million Dollar Search for Extraterrestrials This Halloween Season
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ring-announces-million-dollar-search-for-extraterrestrials-this-halloween-season-301946484.html

Urban foraging: The Falling Fruit project “is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets.” https://fallingfruit.org

You could live in Plato‘s Cave, but the rent is going up. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/platos-cave-regrets-to-inform-you-it-will-be-raising-its-rent

I don't usually get into the "who was underrated at the beginning of the season" conversations, but this is an exception. #baseball #DBacks
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/analysis/gabriel-moreno-has-become-the-dbacks-postseason-x-factor

The First edition of the Handbook would contain sections on different types of birth control then available and how to use them correctly, including diagrams of the reproductive system, information on abortion, and the current laws surrounding it, all with an editorial sway towards the Women’s Liberation Movement. https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/10/04/the-first-birth-control-handbook-written-by-a-group-of-teenagers-in-1968/

Ferrero Roche as a chocolate model of the Earth. https://erik.nygren.org/the-earth-modeled-in-chocolate.html

How the FBI Fights Back Against Worldwide Cyberattacks
https://securityintelligence.com/articles/how-the-fbi-fights-back-against-worldwide-cyberattacks/

Ring is offering a $1,000,000 Grand Prize2 to a US resident who captures unaltered Scientific Evidence of a real Extraterrestrial lifeform on their indoor or outdoor Ring device. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ring-announces-million-dollar-search-for-extraterrestrials-this-halloween-season-301946484.html

Curse words are meant to intensify a feeling that's already present in speech; if they draw too much attention to themselves specifically, they've already failed to do what they're supposed to. https://www.thestopgap.net/how-far-afield-can-sci-fi-and-fantasy-fake-swearing

Tiny home in LA, $29,000
I don't know whether to be appalled or think, "That's not a bad deal."
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/rvs/d/winnetka-tiny-home/7673286844.html

This is pretty! Worth watching, to brighten your day.

As agriculture in the United States transformed from domestic and local to industrial and national, in 1886 the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) embarked on an ambitious project. To help fruit cultivators protect and profit from their innovations, the agency hired illustrators to recreate images of newly developed varieties of fruits and nuts, capturing the colours, textures and shapes of each in intricate detail. https://aeon.co/videos/in-1886-a-us-agency-set-out-to-record-new-fruit-varieties-the-results-are-wondrous

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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier https://my90stv.com/

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New wearable sensor makes continuous analysis of sweat possible https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/new-wearable-sensor-makes-continuous-analysis-sweat-possible-researchers-say/

You may not think you need another thing on your counter, but what if that thing has cheese in it? https://www.eater.com/23903036/cheese-grotto-at-home-cheese-cave-best-cheese-storage

In 1998, DEC was acquired by Compaq, and in 2001, Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. The DEC line, including the VAX/VMS system, was discontinued and faded from the market.

And yet it lives on today. Here’s how.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/long-gone-dec-is-still-powering-the-world-of-computing/