Hate spoilers? This AI tool spots them for you. http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2830

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english

"[New Coke] was done in by a complicated web of interests, a mixture of cranks and opportunists—a sugar-starved mob of pitchfork-clutching Andy Rooneys, powered by the thrill of rebellion and an aggrieved sense of dispossession." https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/

The Internet Is Drowning: Rising seas imperil the delicate web of cables and power stations that control the internet. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-internet-underwater-sea-level-rise/

How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business? (from 2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad

Book Clubs Get Especially Clubby https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/books/insider-niche-book-clubs-literaryswag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump officials deleting mentions of ‘climate change’ from U.S. Geological Survey press releases https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/trump-officials-deleting-mentions-climate-change-us-geological-survey-press-releases

Judges are struggling to interpret emojis. Their multiple meanings are complicating court cases in the US. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/08/tech/emoji-law/index.html

This fall the International Space Station will test the first “real” space oven—by baking cookies. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-space-station-may-soon-smell-like-fresh-baked-cookies/

Gavin Hogg turned the hedge outside his kitchen window into a herd of elephants. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5716182/Gardener-creates-herd-of-elephants-from-unkempt-hedgerow.html

Oh hey IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE ACCESS AGAIN!

(I have had a weird IPV6 issue, but resolving it appears to require a great deal of yak shaving. I wasn't going to keep bugging J to fix a problem that isn't his to solve.)

So let's see what trouble I can get into, now that I'm back. For now, anyhow.

5 insights that big data has gleaned about cannabis

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/5-insights-that-big-data-has-gleaned-about-cannabis-1907.html

The official spicy snack power rankings. https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-spicy-power-rankings-hot-snacks-chips-cheetos-takis-20190702-story.html

Internet of the Absurd: 6 Hilarious Apps and Services https://medium.com/zajnocrew/internet-of-the-absurd-6-hilarious-apps-and-services-cd9e5b2065ff

Metrics show Trump’s tweets are losing their potency https://www.axios.com/president-trump-tweets-engagement-4c6067a8-734d-4184-984a-d5c9151aa339.html

The real story of the girl behind the diary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/25/anne-frank-full-story-bart-van-es

Geek spotting: 3 ways to recognize a tech geek in the wild

Today's definition of "geek" is not the same as it was decades ago. Here’s how to identify a geek in 2019.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/geek-spotting-3-ways-to-recognize-a-tech-geek-in-the-wild-1905.html

The techniques that have been used to pressure American women to keep breeding are even more shocking than you might think. https://www.topic.com/a-brief-history-of-bullying-women-to-have-babies