I paid $1 for a wig today. It was a small price toupee.

Late last month, the archaeologist and his team located the remains of an ancient, abandoned Maya city home to numerous pyramid-shaped structures rising more than 15m nestled deep within Mexico's Balamkú Ecological Conservation Zone. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230704-ocomtn-a-long-lost-maya-city-that-was-just-discovered

Among the initiatives that they want to implement: accelerate adoption of memory safe programming languages, disrupt the ransomware ecosystem, and look into a Federal insurance response in case of a catastrophic cyber event. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/national-cybersecurity-strategy-implementation-plan/686887/

A programmer needs up to 15 minutes to start editing code again following an interruption https://devm.io/careers/aaaand-gone-true-cost-interruptions-128741

How the IPG started: "5 April 1996 -- Writers, editors, and analysts from
around the world are uniting to take a stand against shoddy,
inaccurate reporting about the Internet."

We've never stopped. (cc @[email protected] ) https://groups.google.com/g/alt.internet.media-coverage/c/IuOb-FY75e8

It's been a while since I pointed anyone at this marvelous Star Wars Intro Creator. You can pay $12 to download the video you create. I don't have a particular need for it at the moment, but... maybe you do.

Gosh, it's fun. https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/

Cantonese Font with Pronunciation https://visual-fonts.com

"The findings suggest that Mars may have had a far more active past than we realised – and could have significant implications for the search for alien life."
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/organic-matter-found-on-mars-rover-nasa-b2375176.html

Apparently the man knew how to party

A historical archive of flexible portion control sauces.
#internetisbeautiful l
https://www.condimentpacket.com

“I only have one month worth of results, but the numbers are pretty clear. Twitter is juking the stats.” https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-twitter-pay-to-play-now-early-results-of-my-blue-checkmark-experiment-are-in/

The group now sells bars in six “styles” that can be selected from a company catalog: Shop, Gastro, Victorian, Brewery, Country, and Celtic. https://www.eater.com/2017/3/7/14839472/irish-pub-design

People used to read out loud for fun. Reading silently to oneself is a relatively new phenomenon, beginning as recently as the late 18th century. https://qz.com/quartzy/1118580/the-beginning-of-silent-reading-was-also-the-beginning-of-an-interior-life

Most Iberians of the time were buried in group graves. However, the opulent grave discovered in 2008 contained only a single occupant. https://www.science.org/content/article/most-outstanding-leader-iberian-copper-age-was-woman

Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background?
There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/is-distributed-computing-dying-or-just-fading-into-the-backdrop/

If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking about writing.  --Lillian Hellman

Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve https://mystery-o-matic.com

SF's Anchor Brewing Company, the country's first craft brewery, is shutting down after 127 years https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/07/legendary-127-year-old-us-brewer-anchor-ceases-operations/

Most biologists have assumed that ants wander aimlessly around a new environment. New University of Arizona research suggests that one species of rock ant actually searches in a more methodical way.
https://news.arizona.edu/story/ants-go-marching-%E2%80%A6-methodically