A comfy, attractive, inexpensive blouse? Sign me up! https://amzn.to/3HwBZMl

David Baldacci has been named the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Literary Champion award for literary advocacy.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html

I'm working on a white paper in which the functional final section is labeled "Wrap-up and the CTA." It won't surprise you that this song is playing in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0

One-in-three blamed leadership figures “not understanding and putting roadblocks up, either knowingly or unknowingly”, closely followed by “teams not empowered to be self-organized and/or self-sufficient”.

The theme I see here is "Management is clueless."
https://www.itpro.com/software/agile-development-is-fading-in-popularity-at-large-enterprises-and-developer-burnout-is-a-key-factor

The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: the fighting snail.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-the-mystery-of-the-medieval-fighting-snails

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Most recipes for Maryland fried chicken, past and present, agree on a few basics: the chicken should be dredged in seasoned flour and fried in a cast iron pan – never deep-fried. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231112-maryland-fried-chicken-a-storied-dish-with-titanic-history

A team at MIT has announced a new method of 3D printing metal that prioritizes printing speeds and scale over resolution. It is capable of printing large aluminum parts at least 10 times faster than comparable metal additive manufacturing processes. https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/researchers-showcase-a-speedy-new-approach-to-printing-metal/

TIL the German word Fremdschämen, which is when you feel uncomfortable or awkward because another person created an embarrassing situation. https://www.thelocal.de/20181004/german-word-of-the-day-fremdsch

Why Broadcom is Killing Off VMware’s Standalone Products
The acquisition seriously changes the relationship customers will have with the new version of the company going forward.
https://thenewstack.io/why-broadcom-is-killing-off-vmwares-standalone-products/

A spreadsheet of every ejection in baseball history because of course that's a thing.

I mean, it IS a thing. For some of us #baseball fans. https://www.retrosheet.org/eject.htm

In the GOOD NEWS department: The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is going tuition-free. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/cuny-journalism-school-craig-newmark-tuition-free

My Amazon review of _Babylon 5: The Road Home_: a pleasant visit with old friends, but not infinitely-rewatchable the way the original series is. https://amzn.to/498OHMK

40 Years of UNIX, and 'The Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done' (from 2013, so now I guess it's 50 years)
https://smartbear.com/blog/40-years-of-unix-and-the-scariest-thing-ive-ever-d/

Hovercrafts may be more than 70 years old but the mode of transport could be about to enjoy a second wind. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240112-why-the-hovercrafts-time-might-have-finally-arrived

Wasabi Acquires Curio AI to Enhance Its Cloud Storage Solution https://www.builtinboston.com/articles/wasabi-acquires-curio-ai-20240123

RIP Melanie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlp3wmE4bbI

On culture change at Google: "[In] my first decade at Google, it was incredible to see employees valued above everything else. Perhaps this is a privilege only possible in a culture of infinite abundance. Or maybe not?"
https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange

10 queer newsletters (that aren’t on Substack) https://xtramagazine.com/culture/10-queer-newsletters-not-on-substack-262121

"The Johnson Publishing Company produced iconic magazines including Ebony and Jet and its archive is regarded as one of the most significant collections of 20th century Black American culture." https://www.getty.edu/news/johnson-publishing-company-archive-getty-smithsonian-digitization-project/