You’ve just been elected to office and must be sworn in. You may select any book on which to take your oath.

What book do you choose?

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Jon Stewart's first monologue after 9/11

Including "why I grieve but I do not despair."

https://www.cc.com/video-clips/1q93jy/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-september-11--2001

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Collectors of kitchy coins and touristy trinkets can easily find the locations of those coin-operated, hand cranked penny press machines while on a trip or right in your hometown. Enter a zip code and a search radius to get a list and map of the penny presses near you! https://boingboing.net/2024/02/02/penny-presses-find-squashed-penny-machines-near-you.html

Charles Schulz’s response to a 5th grader in the 1970s about what it takes to be a good citizen.

Because someone who is colorblind experiences food in a restricted range of color, some of the signals that raise flags about freshness, safety or otherwise drive anxiety about novel food could be limited. https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-that-people-who-are-colorblind-are-less-likely-to-be-picky-eaters-232438

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Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products https://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.” https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2024/08/how-an-apple-from-a-rejected-tree-became-the-honeycrisp/

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. https://jalopnik.com/theres-a-relic-runway-from-america-s-failed-supersonic-1851118242

This is fun: Debate Bingo Cards. https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-debate-bingo-cards-digital-download/

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.)

https://www.linux.com/news/do-it-yourself-open-source-conference-1/

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. https://hyperallergic.com/869521/how-african-american-museums-are-navigating-book-bans/

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."

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime

Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/why-ai-cant-spell-strawberry/

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.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/news/02022024ChrisMarshpopsongs.html

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.

https://amzn.to/47j0hVY