A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book; invisible when closed. The technique was employed by high end bookmakers throughout history, and in many cases, the hidden artworks went undiscovered for decades or even centuries after their creation. https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/05/there-might-be-a-secret-painting-hiding-in-that-old-book-of-yours

I feel seen.

This is not our cat.

It's a cat that my mother met in Bermuda in 1966.

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." — Colonial American proverb

Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0
"I'm from another dimension. I mean, another–another dimension." https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/trying_ms_prerelease_os2_2/

The San Francisco Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS), one of the few remaining major systems still using floppy disks, is dropping the archaic technology as part of a massive upgrade. https://www.techspot.com/news/105295-goodbye-floppies-san-francisco-pays-hitachi-212-million.html

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.– Franklin D. Roosevelt

According to the latest statistics from the US Department of Agriculture, more than 40% of hens used for eggs in the United States are now cage-free, and 11 states have banned the practice of caging hens. https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/40-percent-hens-eggs-cage-free-united-states

I laughed!

"Sometimes something truly new to us, that no one has seen for thousands of years, is unearthed. In the case of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, no one seemingly had looked at this text for at least 1,500 years, maybe more." https://worksinprogress.co/issue/doom-scrolling/

Upwork announces $28M profit, slashes staff by 21% https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/upwork-announces-28m-profit-lays-off-21-percent-19861115.php

George Takei Reveals The Origin Of 'Oh My'
TIL...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A_kYMfGc4k

The whole setup was portable and they just hacked into a wire on a telephone pole, asked the operator to clear the line, and sent a photo scan via an analog modem. Ingenious! https://kottke.org/24/03/how-photos-were-transmitted-by-wire-in-the-1930s

Not the article where I expected to find this advice, but here we are.

“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, though, in tech, you’re doomed. Somebody else will do it. If you’re not constantly really rethinking what you’re doing and trying to adopt disruptive technologies—disruptive, that is, to yourself—you will be disrupted, and be gone.” https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/an-oral-history-of-the-aim-away-message-by-the-people-who-were-there/

“I think the world wanted to see this,” Dodgers star Mookie Betts told reporters after the National League Championship Series.

Narrator voice: The world did not, in fact, want to see this.

(The article is otherwise worthwhile.) https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/mlb/dodgers-yankees-world-series-rcna177076

"I would like to assure the gentleman that it is not my intention to ever have this country become short of rice, because, as much as I like potatoes, and in Idaho we do like potatoes, I would hate to see them come to the point where they would have to throw potatoes at weddings."--Then Representative Steven Symms (ID)

Overheard: I like to talk about the old days when we used to get Netflix through the mail.

"I Got Dysentary So You Don't Have To" https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/10/21/i-got-dysentery-so-you-dont-have-to/

Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ filming location in Petra
"With a film crew, the team excavated the newly uncovered tomb in August. But the real surprise was what lay within the tomb. While many tombs uncovered within Petra are found empty or disturbed, the chamber was filled with complete skeletal remains and grave goods made from bronze, iron and ceramic."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/science/petra-tomb-indiana-jones-discovery/index.html

Researchers found a way to recreate fingerprints from the sounds made when you swipe a screen. (From a while ago, still interesting.) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/your-fingerprints-can-be-recreated-from-the-sounds-made-when-you-swipe-on-a-touchscreen-researchers-new-side-channel-attack-can-reproduce-partial-fingerprints-to-enable-attacks

The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame
https://www.gq.com/story/the-miraculous-resurrection-of-notre-dame