You thought the internet didn't really have everything until you saw Ian's Shoelace Site. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

It’s 14 years since “United Breaks Guitars.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

Smithsonian Folkways has acquired Timberhead Music, the label of prolific folk singer, songwriter, and seafarer Gordon Bok. You can stream his songs online or buy CDs. https://folkways.si.edu/timberhead

The Cube Rule of Food Identification https://cuberule.com/

A pair of French companies have the two most mispronounced brand names in the world: financiers Société Générale and car company Peugeot.
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/most-mispronounced-brands/

"OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products." That's... not the content I want an AI learning.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

“Must See” TV turned into “I Binged It in a Weekend, But Now I Won’t See It Again for a Year or Two.” But, as the streaming business has matured, concern over consumer “churn” has grown — and those short orders make it easier for audiences to cancel their subscriptions. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/streaming-platforms-broadcast-tricks-ads-more-episodes-1236001241/

The person who invented the Knock Knock joke is finally being recognized.

They're getting a no-bell prize.

On TikTok and other digital platforms, there has lately been much ado about people who own a great number of books and — this is critical — have managed to stage them in a pleasing manner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/style/do-you-have-bookshelf-wealth.html

New Randy Rainbow just dropped, y'all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRxhfYSdhc

Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/05/john-miltons-handwritten-notes-make-this-16th-century-history-book-a-rare-find/

Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke interview with Walter Cronkite, JULY 20, 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLTkYJ7C40

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. – Karl Kraus

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have explored the feasibility of using renewable energy to power Antarctica‘s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
(Headline is somewhat misleading.)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/13/solar-wind-completely-replace-diesel-at-south-pole-station/

A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68884548

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TIL a Cursor Park or Cursor Parking Lot is a space on a Google Docs page designated for placing your mouse cursor when you're not actively editing the document. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cursor-park

How to Respond to an Editor’s Queries on Your Article

I wrote this many years ago, but IMHO it's still decent #AmEditing advice.
https://medium.com/p/fc3e877c52f5

Researchers demonstrated that recognizable versions of classic Pink Floyd rock music can be reconstructed from brain activity that was recorded while patients listened to the song. https://www.newswise.com/articles/classic-rock-music-can-be-recreated-from-recorded-brain-activity

"While some members of MI5, Britain’s counter-espionage service were whiling away their spare moments in May 1944 by doing the Telegraph Crossword, they noticed that vital code-names that had been adopted to hide the mightiest sea-borne assault of all time appeared in the crossword." https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Crossword-Panic-of-1944/