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Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products microsoftgraveyard.com

To capture the variety’s signature crunch and juicy texture, Bedford once described the Honeycrisp as “a piece of apple shrapnel in your mouth.” minnpost.com/mnopedia/2024/08/

TIL There’s a relic runway from America’s failed supersonic future hiding in the Everglades. The Everglades Jetport was doomed by sonic booms, a failed Boeing supersonic airliner and environmental protests. jalopnik.com/theres-a-relic-ru

Two tests for whether someone is an asshole:

* Does the target feel bad about themselves after talking to the person? (oppressed, humiliated, belittled)
* Does the asshole target those less powerful?

(Found in one of my old conference writeups.)

linux.com/news/do-it-yourself-

In an interview with Hyperallergic, Coleman-Robinson explained how book bans and information restrictions within the education system have somewhat of a Streisand effect that has sent people running to museums for the full story. hyperallergic.com/869521/how-a

The mythical tie between immigration and crime
"Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white, the study finds."

siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythic

Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork: thenewstack.io/valkey-is-a-dif by @sjvn

, the fork, started strong and rapidly gained momentum.

Broadside Ballads were the pop music of the Elizabethan and Stuart era. The cheapest form of literature available at the time, they sold for a penny a piece in marketplaces, and each song – printed on one side of a piece of paper – presented to the consumer a text in verse, the name of a tune and one or more simple ‘woodcut’ pictures.

...and you can listen to some of them through a link at this site.
qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/news/02

Sunset Entertaining for All Seasons (1987 edition)

It was time to clear out space on my bookshelf for another cookbook. This was the victim. But that doesn't mean it's a bad cookbook.

amzn.to/47j0hVY

Strange Words for Body Functions
Leaves out my favorite: "Do not expectorate in front of the ladies if you expect to rate with the ladies."
merriam-webster.com/wordplay/t

Until my friend got pregnant, I didn't know there were so many specialized products to help out. Like a pregnancy pillow. amzn.to/4dVaNVR

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. Lots of restful white noise. tree.fm

Globally half of office desks were utilized for less than one hour per day, while meeting rooms are a big pain point.
sherwood.news/business/office-

The NPS Data API allows official, authoritative data and content to be used not only on NPS.gov but also by internal and external developers in apps, maps, and websites. nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-d

In Julia Child’s kitchen, “style was subservient to flexible functionality. It was this quality that would be picked up, starting in the late 1970s, by a group of designers who put forward a design philosophy emphasising user-centeredness and accessibility.” placesjournal.org/article/juli

I'm sure you all know about this site, but it is new to me: Tunefind helps you identify the songs played on TV and other shows. tunefind.com/

"A George Mason University scientist and team of researchers developed a new camera system that allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings." gmu.edu/news/2024-01/new-video

In Strasbourg’s Hôpital civil, a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape would be prescribed for bloating, while a Côtes de Provence rosé was used to treat obesity. bbc.com/travel/article/2019050

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