I got a spam e-mail message with the wording, layout, and text formatting of a Jira ticket. #WTF

Go home, Netflix job listing. You're drunk. https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/303524654

Former World Barista Champion James Hoffman virtually hosted the Great American Coffee Taste Test, during which thousands of people simultaneously blind-tasted the same four coffees. Hoffman has published a video summarizing the results, as well as a spreadsheet of anonymized survey responses from 4,000+ participants. It includes tasters’ demographics, general coffee drinking habits and preferences (https://bit.ly/gacttCSV+), assessments of the four coffees, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOOQfeloH0

Surely I am not the only one who's looking for a few SIMPLE things to cook this week? I found several candidates here. https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/easy-traybake-recipes/

Assyrian Women of Letters
More than 23,000 cuneiform tablets have been uncovered at the site. Of these, epigrapher and Assyriologist Cécile Michel of the French National Center for Scientific Research has curated and interpreted more than 300 that bear letters written by or to women who belonged to a highly literate Assyrian merchant class.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/530-2311/features/11800-kanesh-assyrian-letters

Jason Lanier discussing the future of AI: It's all just real people (2012)

I found this interview we'd posted on HPIO back in 2012. Seems prescient now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5s51Cm7-c

Best art books of 2023. You know I'm a fool for a good book list. Artist monographs, surveys, and historical reflections to prove that art really does make the world a better place. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/best-art-books-2023

Best art books of 2023. You know I'm a fool for a good book list. Artist monographs, surveys, and historical reflections to prove that art really does make the world a better place. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/best-art-books-2023

Once a year, she’s tasked with summing up the entire world, and all its complexities, in a single color. https://thehustle.co/who-chooses-the-worlds-color-of-the-year/

This novel has all the elements of a reliable historical mystery: a protagonist with a yet-to-be-revealed backstory, interesting characters, a setting that brings you into a different-place-and-time (WW I), and, of course a bookstore and a cat.

It's a holiday weekend. When ELSE are you going to indulge yourself?

https://amzn.to/47q262E

Me

What’s the difference between a Hippo and a Zippo?

One’s really heavy and the other is a little lighter.

Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library featured a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles "concerning measuring the temperature of snow." https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2004586

"We highlighted the employees who currently work in each tech giant and previously worked for one of the others. This allowed us to calculate the number and percentage of employees who’ve moved from each of these companies to another." https://switchonbusiness.com/most-talent-from-competitors/

A study on mouse embryos grown in space suggests that the radiation and weightlessness of space might not pose immediate obstacles to mammalian reproduction. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-mammal-embryos-grown-space

I've read every book in the Gaslight Mystery series. This review of #21 may suggest why. https://amzn.to/47IiETg

Julia Child’s Culinary Notes: “Rushing from stove to typewriter like a mad hen…” https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/julia-childs-culinary-notes

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