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Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products https://microsoftgraveyard.com

To capture the variety’s signature crunch and juicy texture, Bedford once described the Honeycrisp as “a piece of apple shrapnel in your mouth.” https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2024/08/how-an-apple-from-a-rejected-tree-became-the-honeycrisp/

TIL There’s a relic runway from America’s failed supersonic future hiding in the Everglades. The Everglades Jetport was doomed by sonic booms, a failed Boeing supersonic airliner and environmental protests. https://jalopnik.com/theres-a-relic-runway-from-america-s-failed-supersonic-1851118242

This is fun: Debate Bingo Cards. https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-debate-bingo-cards-digital-download/

Two tests for whether someone is an asshole:

* Does the target feel bad about themselves after talking to the person? (oppressed, humiliated, belittled)
* Does the asshole target those less powerful?

(Found in one of my old conference writeups.)

https://www.linux.com/news/do-it-yourself-open-source-conference-1/

In an interview with Hyperallergic, Coleman-Robinson explained how book bans and information restrictions within the education system have somewhat of a Streisand effect that has sent people running to museums for the full story. https://hyperallergic.com/869521/how-african-american-museums-are-navigating-book-bans/

The mythical tie between immigration and crime
"Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white, the study finds."

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime

Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/why-ai-cant-spell-strawberry/

Broadside Ballads were the pop music of the Elizabethan and Stuart era. The cheapest form of literature available at the time, they sold for a penny a piece in marketplaces, and each song – printed on one side of a piece of paper – presented to the consumer a text in verse, the name of a tune and one or more simple ‘woodcut’ pictures.

...and you can listen to some of them through a link at this site.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/news/02022024ChrisMarshpopsongs.html

Sunset Entertaining for All Seasons (1987 edition)

It was time to clear out space on my bookshelf for another cookbook. This was the victim. But that doesn't mean it's a bad cookbook.

https://amzn.to/47j0hVY

Strange Words for Body Functions
Leaves out my favorite: "Do not expectorate in front of the ladies if you expect to rate with the ladies."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/top-10-strange-words-for-body-functions

Until my friend got pregnant, I didn't know there were so many specialized products to help out. Like a pregnancy pillow. https://amzn.to/4dVaNVR

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. Lots of restful white noise. https://www.tree.fm

Globally half of office desks were utilized for less than one hour per day, while meeting rooms are a big pain point.
https://sherwood.news/business/office-usage-has-peaked-in-north-america/

The NPS Data API allows official, authoritative data and content to be used not only on NPS.gov but also by internal and external developers in apps, maps, and websites. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-data-api.htm

In Julia Child’s kitchen, “style was subservient to flexible functionality. It was this quality that would be picked up, starting in the late 1970s, by a group of designers who put forward a design philosophy emphasising user-centeredness and accessibility.” https://placesjournal.org/article/julia-childs-kitchens/

I'm sure you all know about this site, but it is new to me: Tunefind helps you identify the songs played on TV and other shows. https://www.tunefind.com/

"A George Mason University scientist and team of researchers developed a new camera system that allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings." https://www.gmu.edu/news/2024-01/new-video-camera-system-captures-colored-world-animals-see