Surely I am not the only one to have this song stuck in my head?

Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw

How to Protect Your Library With Medieval Book Curses
Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse.
Rather like what I say to people when they ask to borrow a book.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/protect-your-library-the-medieval-way-with-horrifying-book-curses

Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading. #cosobookclub https://theconversation.com/book-clubs-and-the-blitz-how-wwii-britons-kept-calm-and-got-reading-135963

All this stuff about Stanley Tucci making a negroni brought to mind his role in Big Night... along with some other astoundingly good actors.

And it's on Amazon Prime, in case you've never seen it. Great foodie movie!
https://amzn.to/2yLjKCr

Science is showing us the best remedy for aging is friends. http://nautil.us/issue/84/outbreak/friendship-is-a-lifesaver

Where are all the unused planes right now?

The article is interesting, but the photos are Woah Dude.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200415-where-are-all-the-unused-planes-right-now

Loon has started performing network tests in Kenya for its internet balloons, with plans to launch its first service there "in the coming weeks.”
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/21/alphabets-loon-deploys-internet-connectivity-balloons-to-kenya-for-first-commercial-service-launch

Looking for a non-taxing "just tell me a story" historical novel? I liked this one by Rhys Bowen: Above the Bay of Angels #cosobookclub

https://amzn.to/3532ftn

A social media challenge by the Yorkshire Museum prompted institutions to share chilling photos of objects, including a preserved a taxidermic “mermaid” and a pincushion made to look like childrens’ heads. #CURATORBATTLE https://hyperallergic.com/557828/museums-worldwide-post-the-creepiest-objects-in-their-collections/

The National Theater has been making some of their best plays, previously filmed for livestreaming in movie theaters, available on YouTube for those of us stuck at home and hungry for art.

They have scheduled a real treat for the window of 4/30-5/8: alternative versions of Frankenstein, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (dueling Sherlocks!) trading off the roles of Frankenstein and his monster.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-frankenstein

The disruptions caused by social distancing and work at home orders are particularly an issue with software QA testing, if only because the test environments aren’t always very portable. In addition, the culture clash presented by at-home testing can be difficult to rectify. But until the coronavirus is history, we have little choice. Here’s a look at what some QA testing groups are doing to handle this. https://www.functionize.com/blog/software-qa-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/

Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-52395609

Urban planner Meli Harvey has taken New York City’s official dataset of sidewalks and dissected its geometries to map the width of each segment of walkable pavement. https://www.sidewalkwidths.nyc/#13/40.714/-74.005

For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

Social distancing laser hat? or cat magnet? https://i.imgur.com/4yib4lh.gifv

Because relics were understood to be capable of working miracles, any relic that was stolen must have wanted to be. https://daily.jstor.org/when-monks-went-undercover-to-steal-relics/

Public Domain Backgrounds for Zoom https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/04/zoom-backgrounds

A thoroughly romantic amateur English botanist’s catalogue of more than 400 plants and flowers that once grew in profusion on the Roman Colosseum. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/richard-deakin-flora-of-the-colosseum-of-rome/

The Evolution of the American Census: an interactive exploration of how the questions have changed over time, and what they say about America. https://pudding.cool/2020/03/census-history/

So I guess this is the quarantine recipe you wanted.

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/cooking/ikea-swedish-meatball-recipe