How airships could return to our crowded skies https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191107-how-airships-could-return-to-our-crowded-skies
The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019
A photographer set out to document single-story buildings in NYC—the anti-skyscrapers. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/manhattan-single-story-buildings-adam-friedberg
Coffin club members build and decorate their own coffins, turning a typically morbid experience into a celebration with good company. (2017) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/new-zealand-coffin-club-death-music-spd/#close
Police in Sweden say a wanted man was found asleep in a bed in a furniture store north of Stockholm.
Interested in silk’s sinful and sensual past? There was a time when wearing silk was prohibited by law to many Londoners.
https://files.cargocollective.com/783522/Taking-Silk-Pdf-reduced.pdf
"The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks."
http://millionsongdataset.com/
"When did you realize you were, for a moment, a minor impeachment celebrity?" https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/interview-with-impeachment-coffee-gulp-woman.html
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2019
Genuinely upbeat.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2019/
A top secret government Missile Complex is Up For Sale at $395,000. The ex-Titan II silo hosted a missile fitted with a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead. And hey it's here in Arizona. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a29800419/icbm-silo-arizona/
A map of Frank Lloyd Wright homes in (nearly) every state https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/map-of-frank-lloyd-wright-homes/
The Oakland Public Library’s Wash and Read program puts books into the hands of kids and adults doing their laundry at Family Laundry. #cosobookclub #upliftingnews
http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/November-2019/Oaklanders-Learn-Reading-at-the-Laundromat/
Oh my, I remember when this book was the "must read" in the office where I worked. #cosobookclub
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/14/flowers-in-the-attic-vc-andrews-40-years
How to Engage Developers with a World-Class API Portal: a guide to any API provider looking to win the hearts and minds of developers https://www.programmableweb.com/news/best-practices-how-to-engage-developers-world-class-api-portal/how-to/2019/11/19
How Bison Create the Spring
Indigenous groups are leading efforts to reintroduce free-roaming buffalo throughout their lands.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/how-bison-create-spring/602176/
The future president’s feelings on Freedom of Information #FOIA
We took a look at the 2020 candidates and their records on transparencyhttps://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/nov/18/future-president-feelings-freedom-of-information/
He's one of rock's biggest stars, but Sir Rod Stewart has finally revealed the fruits of his other great passion: model railways. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561
For those who like podcasts: Chris Hayes spoke with Linda Hirshman about #MeToo https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/Why-Is-This-Happening-with-Chris-Hayes-p1124593/?topicId=134904833
Impeachment Hearings Highlight More Trump Phone OPSEC Failures.
The stupidity will get lost in partisan fisticuffs, ...
But reality doesn't care, and report after report has made it pretty damn clear the President of the United States has garbage-level OPSEC that no level of hand holding appears capable of mitigating.
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