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The Candidates and Their Books, covering the Presidential candidates as authors and their statements and opinions on bookish issues.

(From a LibraryThing newsletter earlier this year. It's a nice newsletter, recommended for all sorts of readers. Surely that includes you?) librarything.com/readmessage.p

Billie Jean But Every Instrument Is A Spring Door Stopper

You need this, I promise you.
youtube.com/watch?v=5VGLPP70Xt

I don't think I've used this induction cooktop since I reviewed it in 2019. Today we're using it for pancakes.

What took us so long? This is such a convenience. amzn.to/4eV2kmo

Overheard: On November 5th, it’ll be as if the whole world is waiting for a biopsy to come back.

Trump tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
Working with analyst group TPW (Trade Partnership Worldwide), the Consumer Technology Association estimates that a 10% global tariff + 60% China tariff would raise the cost of laptops by 45%.

tomshardware.com/news/trump-ta

"A team of Stanford Medicine doctors and biomedical engineers are among the first to integrate a new augmented reality tool into surgical practice." (from Feb 2024) med.stanford.edu/news/all-news

"This site contains 31,119 unique* 88x31 buttons that I scraped from the GeoCities archives" hellnet.work/8831/

Yes, of course this listicle includes _The Name of the Rose_ and _The Cadfael Chronicles_. So I'm motivated to check out the rest of these books.
crimereads.com/best-medieval-c

People who confuse entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can't put into words.

My good news: I start a new job on Monday!

I'll share the details then, but in the meantime, I am in a state of nervousness -- like the first day at a new school. It's all hope and shyness turned up to 11.

We Now Know What May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

New ideas about witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society”—came from a book called Malleus Maleficarum. That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.
popularmechanics.com/culture/a

The Open Pinball Database provides a searchable inventory and API of about 2,000 pinball machines and 120+ manufacturers. opdb.org

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