From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.- P. Williams

If someone brings their bumbass to a party, you know it’s going to be a good time. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/top-9-words-that-sound-like-insults

An experimental “peanut patch” is showing some promise for toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts. https://www.popsci.com/health/peanut-allergy-patch-toddlers/

‘Babylon 5: The Road Home’ Voice Cast Unveiled
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/babylon-5-the-road-home-voice-cast-unveiled-1235483312/

Happy mother's day.

This is my favorite picture of my mom -- on a date circa 1940, before my folks got engaged.

The sound archive of the British Library is a treasure trove of the most diverse sound recordings.
https://sounds.bl.uk

I’m reading the December 2022 predictions from John Battelle, my old boss, about Twitter’s future:
> So here’s my prediction: In 2023, Elon will tire of Twitter, driven as much by the reality of his waning wealth at Tesla (prediction #8, here) as by the sheer biological reality of endorphin fatigue. He’ll hire a real CEO...
https://battellemedia.com/archives/2022/12/predictions-23-advertising-netflix-apple-amazon-twitter

Okay, now I want to see this. #baseball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGvXOjD6zQ8&t=128s

Overheard regarding a once-great restaurant: "They've gone so far downhill they're now buried under that hill."

You know you are a good team when “You don’t have an absolute sense of who does what.” --James L. Brooks https://thewritelife61.com/2022/04/25/im-a-writer-im-a-writer/

Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon: The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/nasa-lunar-sample-collection/

LEGO set of NASA Mars Rover Perseverance (42158) announced
https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-technic-summer-2023-sets-revealed/

Sometimes when I'm looking for graphic inspiration for the social image on a blog post I find an image that makes me say, "I don't know what the article would be about, but I feel compelled to write a story that'd justify this image."
Case in point: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/image-of-trolley-rubber-chicken-dark-background-gm1368787283-438686867

In a refreshingly direct opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that creating and selling virtualization software for security research is a fair use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/federal-appeals-court-gets-it-fair-use-protects-security-research-tools

Implement DNS in a Weekend https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/05/12/introducing-implement-dns-in-a-weekend/

MIT’s Vaccine Printer: The Game-Changer in Vaccine Distribution
The printer generates vaccine-filled microneedle patches that can be stored long-term at room temperature and applied to the skin.
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-vaccine-printer-the-game-changer-in-vaccine-distribution/

Cats living at a cat cafe responded most quickly to a human stranger when the stranger used both vocal and visual cues to get their attention. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-way-to-call-a-cat-1850410085

Boring Report is an app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and makes it boring to read. https://www.boringreport.org/

Moderator Mayhem is a mobile, browser-based game that lets you see how good a job you would do as a front line content moderator for a growing technology company that hosts user-generated content. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/

The sixth-century Gospels of Augustine of Canterbury are the oldest surviving illustrated Latin Gospels in the world and the oldest non-archaeological artefact of any kind to have survived in England, continuously owned and in use for 1,400 years. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/sixth-century-augustine-gospels-be-used-king-charles-iiis-coronation