> While television cooking competitions are often thought of as a high-stakes, life-changing experience that can make your career, they often don’t, and contestants say that much of the industry success they’ve had in the notoriously competitive and fickle food world is the result of their own hustling and hard work.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/tv-cooking-competition-shows-chef-contestants-chopped-food-network

"If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command."– Bill Lye

I had reason to look up Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat, a book I loved. If you're "of that era" I heartily recommend it. https://amzn.to/4doBYJ8

So should I randomly yell “Avenge me!” at inopportune times or nah?

Scan the World Offers 17,000 Scans of Famous Artworks You Can Download and 3D Print https://www.core77.com/posts/108597/Scan-the-World-Offers-17000-Scans-of-Famous-Artworks-You-Can-Download-and-3D-Print

Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Bringing the woolly mammoth back to life https://www.newsweek.com/we-bringing-woolly-mammoth-back-life-i-1867622

This makes me wonder how long someone could live in an IKEA. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-man-hid-months-secret-room-circuit-city-19422415.php

TIL Michelangelo built a minor reputation for using male models to depict women in a manner that one art historian has likened to “men with breasts.” https://daily.jstor.org/delts-dont-lie/

I know I had you at "bell bottoms."
https://amzn.to/3JIGfcK

Malware attacks against millions of Docker Hub repositories have been discovered. Assume all the content you host on a publicly accessible repository might be compromised.
https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/docker/jfrog-reveals-docker-hub-compromise-spanning-millions-of-repositories/

Archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, indicating a more precise burial location for Plato. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/deciphered-herculaneum-papyrus-reveals-precise-burial-place-of-plato/

How to Judge a Book by Its Cover
What book bindings teach us about readers of the past. https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/how-to-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/

The median time for takehome assessments in the industry is 3 hours, with the longest taking 10 days. Only around 10% of companies compensate candidates for their work. https://www.careerfair.io/takehome-assessments

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On April 10, Kate was to be recognized by the Hanover County Board of Supervisors alongside her fellow Girl Scouts, who earned their Gold Award. But instead of being commended, one of the board members, Cold Harbor Supervisor Michael Herzberg, changed the language around Kate’s project for her honor. No longer was the school board and its book ban policy and practice mentioned — the very things that spurred the project itself. https://bookriot.com/hanover-county-virginia-book-banning/

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." --Linus Pauling

"Patricia’s seat was booked as an adult ticket. But it appears the airport computer system is unable to process a birth date so far in the past - so it defaulted to one 100 years later instead." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

Unfortunately, the Google Maps directions to Mordor no longer works. (It used to say, "You cannot walk into Mordor.")

But these are fun, too.
https://www.techradar.com/features/best-google-easter-eggs