Amazon Studios is in active early conversation on Legally Blonde, both for a movie and a potential TV series, sources said. There already had been on and off efforts to get a third Legally Blonde film off the ground for the past five years.

Amazon has similar plans for Stargate. We hear both film and TV installments are considered, with a movie likely going first.

Robocop also is being talked about for both film and TV, with a TV show possibly first, Deadline hears.

https://deadline.com/2023/04/robocop-stargate-legally-blonde-barbershop-in-works-film-tv-amazon-mgm-ip-1235243057/

The Hustle analyzed the salaries and living situations of several famous sitcom characters over the past few decades as a lens on today’s housing market.
(This is totally unrealistic, but it's fun nonetheless.)
https://thehustle.co/what-old-sitcoms-reveal-about-americas-rising-cost-of-housing/

It's spring! Watch birds build their nests and care for their hatchlings.
https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente

"They were the last two extant U.S. computer magazines that had managed to cling to life until now. With their abandonment of print, the computer magazine era has officially ended."
https://www.technologizer.com/2023/04/15/the-end-of-computer-magazines-in-america/

Steventon House is an elegant Grade II listed Georgian family property built in 1810 by Jane Austen's brother… you got £8,500,000?
https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/steventon-basingstoke-hampshire-rg25/CHO012261745

A selective timeline of our national pastime's hirsute highlights #baseball #beards http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story

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Imagine the deployment process for this! https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nasa-curiosity-mars-rover-major.html

TIL Colby Nolan was a housecat who was awarded an MBA in 2004 by Trinity Southern University, a Dallas-based diploma mill, sparking a fraud lawsuit by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_awarded_human_credentials#Cats

TIL that Zoom transcripts hear "ElasticCache" as "lots of cats." #MakesSenseToMe

How Gary Larson became an early meme pioneer. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/with-the-far-side-gary-larson-pioneered-the-art-of-the-meme

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Nearly half of Americans now work from home at least part of the week (gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/magazine/return-to-office-consultants.html

mRNA vaccine tech seems like the invention of the century https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/07/cancer-and-heart-disease-vaccines-ready-by-end-of-the-decade

"He couldn’t stop thinking about something a board member of the American Booksellers Association, the industry’s largest trade group, had said to him during a recent work dinner. What if ecommerce was a boon for independent bookstores, instead of being their existential threat?" https://www.wired.com/story/books-bookshop-org-thrives-amazon-world/

Of course that’s a thing. https://theresanaiforthat.com

The structure of a dataset can help you pick a visualization method or chart type, but it only takes you part of the way there. To demonstrate, Ferdio started with a simple dataset with six data points and made 100 charts with it. https://flowingdata.com/2023/02/27/100-visualizations-from-a-single-dataset-with-6-data-points

> Reid Scott, who plays the host of that show, marveled at the level of detail. A new addition to “Mrs. Maisel,” he noticed during his first day on set that every piece of paper in every typewriter had custom letterhead.

> “The camera is never going to focus on what this person in the secretary pool is typing, yet they went all the way,” he said in a phone interview. “It infuses the entire production, and it makes everyone really step up.” (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/arts/television/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-final-season.html

If the Moon were only 1 pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html