Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art. https://odeuropa.eu

Mood

I can't argue with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZZ1OWQTgqQ

Five centuries or so before the popularity of coffee as a hot beverage, a mysterious ingredient began to appear in Arabic books on medicine and botany. The descriptions of this ingredient were very similar to our familiar coffee. But rather than drinking this ingredient, it was mostly used for cleaning and freshening the hands. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffee-history

Eight hours of department store Christmas music

If you want to get a head start on torture season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ

Eight hours of department store Christmas music, what could be better? (Anything. Anything would be better than that.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ

A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/curtis-eckerman-photographer-moth-man/

"Crucial correspondence involving the Nineteen Eighty-Four author and Observer correspondent is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing." https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/17/it-could-disappear-for-ever-anger-over-sale-of-george-orwell-archive

Roll Mobility allows users to filter the kind of accessibility they're looking for. The app then color-codes public places from green to red based on its accessibility. https://www.rollmobility.com

Geotab asked landscape photographer James Q. Martin to pick the ten most scenic routes from America’s 50 loneliest ones. #4 is Arizona's US Route 60 through the Navajo Nation. https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/

On August 15th, 2024, Cockroach Labs announced in [cockroach-proprietary] that they would be changing to a strictly proprietary model: on November 18th, 2024, the BSL code will be relicensed to be source-available but otherwise proprietary (that is, requiring a license to use). https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508

Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
I love that they call it the "Carrie Bradshaw" index!
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/08/14/our-carrie-bradshaw-index-where-americans-can-afford-to-live-solo-in-2024

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For your OH PRETTY entertainment
Crystals of Fats, Butter, Beef & Lard, Representing Butter, Oleomargarine & Butterine, 1886
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cc08hg88v

Burning Man still hasn’t sold out online, the organization hawked tickets in-person for the first time since 2011 and Facebook is flooded with people desperately trying to offload extra passes. https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/15/burning-man-tickets-resale-low-prices/

Generate your own acid bassline https://drakh.github.io/acid-generator/

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Artist win: AI lawsuit advances. https://venturebeat.com/ai/artists-celebrate-as-copyright-infringement-case-against-ai-image-generators-moves-forward/

"The rule prohibits businesses from buying reviews or testimonials, whether positive or negative, the suppression of reviews, as well as buying or selling fake indicators of social media influence. It also bans fake reviews written by AI and reviews written by employees of a company without disclosure." https://www.retaildive.com/news/ftc-prohibit-sale-purchase-fake-reviews/724333/