Bug shots: Zahra Gharaee et al.’s BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset contains one million microscope photographs of bugs, each taxonomically classified by experts and supplemented with raw DNA sequences and genetic “barcode” identifiers.
https://biodiversitygenomics.net/1M_insects/

See the world through the eyes of the Roman Empire https://orbis.stanford.edu/

Terms of Service for Legal Lullabies is a white noise service that helps you sleep. The white noise is Instagram’s Terms of Service read by a boring voice. https://www.zzzuckerberg.com/

A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

I yelled so much at the game last night that I don't have a voice this morning.

(The DBacks swept the Dodgers.Gosh that was fun.)

Medieval beast generator https://dngdng.itch.io/an-abundance-of-beasts

A 2,749 pound pumpkin has claimed the top prize at the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pumpkin-weighing-2749-pounds-wins-contest-sets-world-record-biggest-go-rcna119649

Damn. The company that I thought was going to hire me just told me that they decided to go with a different candidate.

Back to the drawing board.

In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/sarah-ogilvie-oxford-english-dictionary

Yelp can tell us a lot about America, from where we work to our latest hobbies.
https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/remote-work-report.html

You guys DO know that this important resource exists, right?

Cat ipsum: Litter your copy with more kitty using this furrier alternative to Lorem Ipsum. http://www.catipsum.com/index.php#google_vignette

Both Crowley and Yeats were gripped in the belief their occult skills could have a real-world effect: Crowley wanted to take some of the organization's top-secret papers and was prepared to use his magical abilities to do it, though he was also reportedly armed with daggers.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel

Is there an Enterprise Performance Management #EPM expert in the sound of my voice? I might like to ask you a couple of questions for case-study purposes.

Sapient machines have appeared in stories for over a hundred years, but they’re just one example in our long tradition of using non-human characters to tell stories about ourselves. https://lithub.com/robots-are-people-too-on-the-ways-writers-use-non-human-characters-to-tell-human-stories/

"The Pennridge school district illustrates a story that hasn't gotten much attention: Fed-up parents and educators, without anything close to the resources of their conservative opponents, are organizing a grassroots effort to restore American schools to their intended purpose, that of educating children to be citizens of a democracy." https://www.salon.com/2023/10/10/moms-for-liberty-meets-its-match-parents-in-this-swing-suburban-district-are-fighting-back/

A pillar of Twitter’s rise to prominence was that it was the social media site to go to and find out what was happening. Not anymore, reports Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/elon-musk-x-twitter-news-links-headlines-why.html

I was just telling someone about _Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat_ and dug up my review of it. Now I want to read the book again. Gosh, it's fun. https://amzn.to/3FarE7r

"A new speaker can rearrange its seven 'self-deploying' microphones to partition a room into so-called 'speech zones,' allowing it to track and identify different voices, even as they move." https://futurism.com/the-byte/speaker-that-mutes-people