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Turn your keyboard into a typewriter! 📇 https://github.com/orhun/daktilo

The bespoke piece of music – Chook Symphony No 1 – was created specifically for the birds out of an unlikely partnership between the orchestra and an organic free range chicken farm. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/new-zealand-orchestra-music-chickens-chook-symphony

If you were asked to think of things that may be made obsolete by AI, bicycle radar systems probably wouldn’t be at the top of the list. That could soon be the case, however, if the Survue lives up to its maker’s claims. https://newatlas.com/bicycles/survue-cycling-ai-vehicle-warning

39% of hiring managers say their company posted a fake job in the past year.
https://www.resumebuilder.com/3-in-10-companies-currently-have-fake-job-posting-listed/

Time for a Zoom Room upgrade? "Participants tended to judge faces appearing against backgrounds featuring houseplants or bookcases as more trustworthy and competent than faces with a living space or a novelty image behind them." https://phys.org/news/2023-09-background.html

I just came across my original review of Mr. Churchill's Secretary, from back in 2012. Yup, I agree with every little bit of it. And the story held up all the way through to the end of the series. https://amzn.to/3XG66tX

A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-uncovering-cs-lewis-poem.html

"The dugout canoe, which was likely made from a tree that once grew in Wisconsin, is one of more than five dozen located, catalogued, and photographed by [Sissel] Schroeder and [Tamara] Thomsen as part of the Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project, an effort to identify and document the origin, style, and tree species used to make dugouts. The team is also building a library of 3D interactive digital models of the dugouts, which is available to the public online."
https://undark.org/2023/10/02/wisconsin-dugout-canoes/

A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet https://www.octobrain.one/maps/908lqY3fV5C4v7nRvvd2

Once Threatened with Extinction, Towel Animals Are Absolutely Thriving
Made famous by resorts and cruises in the 1990s, the folding of towels into cute animals is gaining popularity, resulting in countless towel art competition and “room reveal” videos.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/towel-animal-trend-tiktok

South African scientists injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-radioactive-rhino-horns-curb-poaching.html

How to scrape websites using ChatGPT https://proxiesapi.com/articles/web-scraping-using-chatgpt-complete-guide-with-examples

A Call for Anthropological Poems of Resistance, Refusal, and Wayfinding

SAPIENS is seeking poetry submissions for a curated collection that will publish next year. Deadline: September 1, 2024. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropological-poems-call-resistance-refusal-wayfinding/

A man in China disguised his turtle as a hamburger, and other stories. https://thartribune.com/from-gold-in-rectums-to-live-tiger-cubs-the-most-bizarre-items-smuggled-through-airport-security/

Fujifilm is struggling to meet demand for the $1,599 camera, prized by young 20-something social media fans for its looks and high-end functions.

Next let’s bring back darkrooms. https://www.msn.com/en-xl/money/other/fujifilm-once-struggled-to-sell-cameras-now-it-can-t-keep-up-with-demand/ar-BB1p1GCh

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
– Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992

Good news! “After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays.” https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-libraries-to-get-budget-funding-back-and-reopen-on-sundays

"Getting cool, then, means protecting yourself not just from the sun’s radiation but also from all the radiation bouncing off the pavement and concrete. A new textile—made of plastic and silver nanowires—does just that, and can keep its wearers as much as 16 degrees cooler than other fabrics." https://www.fastcompany.com/91142992/this-impossibly-thin-fabric-could-cool-you-down-by-16-degrees

Because it can be difficult and expensive to keep sesame in one part of a baking plant out of another, some companies began adding small amounts of sesame to products that didn't previously contain the ingredient to avoid liability and cost. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens