An Adventure in Protozoan Art: The Creatures That Live in Your Pond http://www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm

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How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City
https://lithub.com/how-p-t-barnum-brought-beluga-whales-to-new-york-city/

> “Not a hack!” you scream. “It’s frivolous nonsense!” To that I say, are you a nugget eater or not? https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/3d-printed-adapter-helps-you-eat-chicken-nuggets-on-the-highway/

"If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvers catus)." https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/what-cats-love-of-boxes-and-squares-can-tell-us-about-their-visual-perception/

Design For The Public is a conference that celebrates and supports the crucial work of designing technology for the public good. Taking place in Portland, OR on October 16-17, 2024. https://designforthepublic.com

5 small changes that will bring a major improvement to your coffee agenda https://www.bonappetit.com/story/5-tips-for-better-coffee

What birdwatching in the Garden of Earthly Delights can teach us. https://aeon.co/essays/noticing-the-birds-in-great-paintings-taught-me-to-see-the-world

A random mention in an essay about the short story that inspired the movie "A New Leaf" led me to this essay about the author Jack Ritchie. Years ago, Bill and I discovered we'd read the same short story collection when we were teenagers, including "For All the Rude People." Alas, not even Amazon has a used copy. I'm sure I'd love to read it again.
https://ashen-light.livejournal.com/157610.html

Overheard: Advertising is just dick pics from companies.

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
https://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636

Professor Sally Bushell drew on the British Library collections to create Litcraft, a project that builds worlds in Minecraft to inspire reluctant readers. Her most recent Litcraft game is called Steampunk Sherlock Holmes. https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2023/07/building-a-minecraft-gateway-to-the-world-of-books-.html

"I recently just powered through a bunch of applications for some roles I had open. As a hiring manager, I want to mention some simple things that can set you apart in your search. All of these are based on patterns I saw; way more than one candidate was doing these things."
https://seankilleen.com/2024/01/tips-to-help-yourself-stand-out-during-a-tech-job-search/

Take a trip to the World’s Fair in 1960s New York. I WAS THERE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYJ3MjQpm8&t=5s

NotTheOnion... or, well, actually The Onion.

The Onion is sold to new firm known as Global Tetrahedron

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron#

The CEO said on Threads:
NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.
We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff.
Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.
https://www.threads.net/@oneunderscore__/post/C6M8Qr0gPuW/

You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/

North American software developers are reasonably confident that #GenAI can help them improve code security. In other regions? Not quite so much.

https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/n-a-developers-optimistic-about-generative-ai-and-code-security/

> Magneto, he realized, needed an overhaul. Trying to work out where the character’s ranting antipathy toward humanity might have come from, Claremont—who’d kicked around on a socialist kibbutz in Israel among Holocaust survivors four years before he got the job—made a change that utterly redefined the character: He tied Magneto’s origins and explosive rage to the German death camps. https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto

Call for Mentors: the Coding it Forward Fellowship places early-career technologists in federal, state, and local offices for 10 weeks. https://codingitforward.notion.site/2024-Call-for-Mentors-93a943e7d53744debec13ee323e05cc3