Cooking from clay tablets: Babylonian lamb stew

There are only three remaining ancient Babylonian culinary tablets, dated ca. 1750 BC and written in Akkadian. They reveal the world’s oldest known recipes. They are preserved in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
https://www.historicalcookingclasses.com/cooking-from-clay-tablets-mesopotamian-lamb-stew/

Via Harry McCracken: In the early 1990s, David wrote a proposal for a book about his life and adventures in publishing, covering the founding of PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and more. The book didn't happen, but the proposal is good reading in itself, and I'm happy to publish it for the first time." https://technologizer.com/2024/01/20/the-inside-story-of-pc-magazine-pc-world-and-macworlds-origins-as-told-by-david-bunnell/

For thousands of years, it was completely normal to flop down in bed each night alongside friends, colleagues, relatives – including the entire extended family – or travelling pedlars. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240111-sleep-the-lost-ancient-practise-of-sharing-a-bed

Radio show on December 24, 1949: "Miracle For Christmas," written by my Edgar-winning second cousin, Jay Bennett. https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/drama/grand-central-station/grand-central-station-49-12-24-miracle-for-christmas#google_vignette

Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains, turned human flesh into leather, officials say
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-charged-stealing-selling-human-body-parts-harvard-medical-school-mor-rcna89357

London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface https://github.com/petykowski/London-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface

China Miéville announces his first new fiction book since 2016 co-written with.... Keanu Reeves. https://getyourcomicon.co.uk/blog/2024/01/10/keanu-reeves-to-publish-first-novel-the-book-of-elsewhere-in-summer-2024/

"From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify." #longread and absolutely worth the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same

My Amazon review of The Official Guinness Cookbook: Good ideas for what to do with it OTHER than drink it straight-up.
https://amzn.to/3GKoW9a

10-year-old John F. Kennedy approached his father and asked for a raise of 30¢. Keen to teach the future President a quick business lesson, Kennedy Sr. immediately told him that, unless his plea was put in writing, it wouldn’t be heard. https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/a-plea-for-a-raise

TIL "IKEA has a crack team of product namers who assign names from a database of Swedish words." https://qz.com/896146/how-ikea-names-its-products-the-curious-taxonomy-behind-billy-poang-malm-kallax-and-rens

I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.

I'II let you know.

Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
by Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

Well, I know what my sad soundtrack will be today. (sigh) https://deadline.com/2024/01/peter-schickele-dead-p-d-q-bach-parodist-film-broadway-composer-was-88-obituary-1235795823/

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Oscar Levant: "A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."

Sleep Retreats Are the Latest Wellness Travel Trend
So often we've gone on vacation to exotic locations and spent the time sleeping!
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/sleep-retreats-wellness-travel-trend

The Hidden World of Undersea Cables: The internet largely runs beneath the oceans. Here’s how it works—and why it matters.
Every three days, on average, one of the world’s undersea cables experiences a problem—it gets cut, or caught on something, and needs to be repaired.
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-hidden-world-of-undersea-cables