Federal officials said funny signs can distract drivers. (gift link thanks to Dave Pell)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/highway-safety-signs-jokes-transportation-crackdown-c8fa2bca

The entries include AI-powered birding binoculars, a BlackBerry-style keyboard for iPhones, a router that looks like a picture frame, and an AI assistant that can call emergency services. https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/ces-2024-the-weirdest-tech-gadgets-and-ai-claims-from-in-las-vegas

Bad news for OS/2 fans: the Hobbes OS/2 software archive is to be shuttered once and for all in April.

Sigh. One more part of my life gets the lights turned off.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down

TechTarget is merging with Informa https://investor.techtarget.com/news-events/news/News/2024/TechTarget-to-Expand-Scale-and-Leadership-Position-in-B2B-Data-and-Market-Access-through-Strategic-Combination-with-Informa-Techs-Digital-Businesses/default.aspx

Can confirm: It's true.

The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song. https://xkcd.com/2870/

Author Terry Bisson, 81, died in the early hours of January 10, 2024.

(I don't think I ever read anything he wrote. Now I feel bad about it.)
https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/

The Art of Making People Go Away
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-art-of-making-people-go-away/

Ranking Disney movies by their faithfulness to their book source material. https://www.polygon.com/century-of-disney/23762914/disney-animated-films-ranked-adaptations-faithfulness-to-the-source-material

@XSGeek (sorry forgot to tag you in the above)

In other words, you're excluding candidates based on their willingness to expend a lot of their time rather than some of your own.

The screening call goes both ways, ya know. I use that half hour to judge if I want to work at the company, as much as you want to find out if I might possibly fit in. If it looks good, then sure, I might give you an hour for an assessment project.

But I'd never do this FIRST.

Scientists at MIT and Harvard have designed tiny virus-like particles that can carry prime editors into mouse cells with a high success rate to correct a genetic disorder. https://interestingengineering.com/science/scientists-gene-editing-170-times

Electric light transmits data faster than Wi-Fi https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-electric-transmits-faster-wi-fi.html

The DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC) will use a series of challenge events to spur development of novel physiological features for medical triage. https://triagechallenge.darpa.mil/

Sales Books to Help You Level Up Your Sales Skills

Worth browsing, though it leaves out The Secrets of Consulting by Jerry Weinberg, which was my own big AHA IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW book.
https://blog.close.com/best-sales-books/

I won't embarrass my writers by saying which of them gets Author Reviews that look like this.

(Also, I'm told this is Finnegan's Wake, not Ulysses.)

A $50,000 luxury yacht charter, a $114 truffle eye serum, and $69,000 emerald earrings were all included in this year's $500,000 Golden Globes swag bags. https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/golden-globes-2024-swag-bags-details-rcna132237

TIL West Side Story was originally called "East Side Story” and it focused on the animosity between Jews and Italian Catholics on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/leonard-bernsteins-west-side-story

The Ferriss–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers ten $10,000 reporting grants per year to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business, and culture of this new era of psychedelics. Apply by 1/31. https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/