News story or meme? After Elon Musk aXes headlines, it’s hard to tell.

"Maybe eliminating headlines will, ironically, make people more likely to click, because they want to know what the story is about and have nothing to work off except a mystery image." https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/10/news-story-or-meme-after-elon-musk-axes-headlines-its-hard-to-tell/

Me, Pop, and cats, 1970

A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard. https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/hospital_cat_incident/

Text to speech that's displayed inside the glasses: https://www.xander.tech/xanderglasses

Shaking my fist in the air: “To be considered for this position, in addition to your resume, please create a 3-5 minute Loom video introducing yourself and showcasing your experience. I’d recommend - if possible - doing a screen share and showing some of your work as you talk about your experience. Send them to (email ID).”

Sorry, honey, not on the first date.

PEN America has released a new report on the recent surge of state educational bills targeting librarians, teachers and other school officials. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/93022-new-pen-america-report-documents-surge-in-educational-intimidation-bills.html

Daktilo: Turn Your Keyboard into a Typewriter. It's a small command-line program that plays typewriter sounds every time you press a key. https://github.com/orhun/daktilo

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." -- Mark Twain

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230929-can-a-map-of-the-ocean-floor-be-crowdsourced

A FOIA junkie and a bluegrass band walk into a comedy club — literally. On Tuesday, Oct. 24, FOIA Love will be performing a FOIA-inspired comedy and bluegrass set at the SoHo Playhouse, in New York City. The show takes documents from FOIA requests and uses them as inspiration for jokes, sketches and even songs. Then, a bluegrass band plays songs based on the topics of the requests. If nothing else, it's fun with #FOIA. https://www.foialove.com

How good are your circle drawing skills? Mine suck. https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/

Here's some of what went down last week at the Grace Hopper conference. It was... not the usual thing. https://www.wired.com/story/grace-hopper-celebration-career-fair-men/

This interactive article explains how a mechanical watch works. https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch

Now THIS is how you quit a job.

>> Instead the woman who had bounced from department to department, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”
https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021

Once upon a time, microcomputers weren't all-in-one devices, I wrote in 2015. They were put together from standalone components, each with its technical merits -- and we had to know all about every one of them.
https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/11-things-computer-users-will-never-experience-again

Librarians and teachers in elementary schools treat science fiction as a genre that works best for certain cases, like reluctant readers or kids who like what they called “weird,” “freaky” or “funky” books. https://theconversation.com/sci-fi-books-are-rare-in-school-even-though-they-help-kids-better-understand-science-213436

Join Future Tense and the Center for Science and the Imagination for a lighthearted conversation about how to prepare for dire eventualities. The event on October 23 is free and open to everyone https://events.newamerica.org/whatzombiescanteachus

A fast-paced startup simulation game where you play the founder of a tech startup.
https://sillycovalley.com/