The Candidates and Their Books, covering the Presidential candidates as authors and their statements and opinions on bookish issues.

(From a LibraryThing newsletter earlier this year. It's a nice newsletter, recommended for all sorts of readers. Surely that includes you?) https://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php

Billie Jean But Every Instrument Is A Spring Door Stopper

You need this, I promise you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGLPP70Xtw

I laughed

I don't think I've used this induction cooktop since I reviewed it in 2019. Today we're using it for pancakes.

What took us so long? This is such a convenience. https://amzn.to/4eV2kmo

Overheard: On November 5th, it’ll be as if the whole world is waiting for a biopsy to come back.

Trump tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
Working with analyst group TPW (Trade Partnership Worldwide), the Consumer Technology Association estimates that a 10% global tariff + 60% China tariff would raise the cost of laptops by 45%.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/trump-tariffs-increase-laptop-electronics-prices

Truth.

“Baseball” was one of the early episodes of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour.
https://podbay.fm/p/theme-time-radio-hour-archive-theme-time-radio-hour/e/1397234407

Who Can See What You Do on Venmo? You’d Be Surprised.
https://www.consumerreports.org/money/digital-payments/who-can-see-what-you-do-on-venmo-a6906448606/

"A team of Stanford Medicine doctors and biomedical engineers are among the first to integrate a new augmented reality tool into surgical practice." (from Feb 2024) https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/augmented-reality-surgery.html

"This site contains 31,119 unique* 88x31 buttons that I scraped from the GeoCities archives" https://hellnet.work/8831/

Yes, of course this listicle includes _The Name of the Rose_ and _The Cadfael Chronicles_. So I'm motivated to check out the rest of these books.
https://crimereads.com/best-medieval-crime-novels/

Cats are (almost) liquid
They did the research. It must be true.
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02024-8

People who confuse entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can't put into words.

My good news: I start a new job on Monday!

I'll share the details then, but in the meantime, I am in a state of nervousness -- like the first day at a new school. It's all hope and shyness turned up to 11.

We Now Know What May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

New ideas about witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society”—came from a book called Malleus Maleficarum. That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause/

"Who could possibly ignore a resume when it is delivered as a delicious pizza?”
LOTS of people, I assure you.
https://mossandfog.com/pizza-hut-will-deliver-your-resume-printed-on-a-pizza-box-to-prospective-employers/

The Open Pinball Database provides a searchable inventory and API of about 2,000 pinball machines and 120+ manufacturers. https://opdb.org

German Signs in Paris during World War II Occupation https://humus.livejournal.com/9351349.html