"While SGI knew they would deal in computers outfitted with a powerful GPU, they did not know precisely what else those computers should feature." https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics

In 2024, several music greats—including Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley and Whitney Houston—are once again topping the charts of the highest-paid dead celebrities. (paywall possible) https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2024/10/29/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-of-2024

A 200-year-old musical score believed to be composed by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in the vault of New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/previously-unknown-chopin-waltz-identified-at-new-yorks-morgan-library-1234722397/

The 18th edition, published this September, is a touch more robust than the version that appeared after the 1906 World Series. At 1,192 pages, some five times the size of the original edition, it now weighs four pounds. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-venerable-and-time-tested-guide/

Adele at the BBC: When Adele wasn’t Adele... but was Jenny! (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXjxWaQs9o

Sunday’s Chalamet contest with a turnout of over 2,000 people — with Timothée himself showing up — just was not something they could’ve expected nor prepared for. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/timothee-chalamet-lookalike-contest-nyc-photos-2024

“Twenty years ago, I interviewed a bunch of people who ran for president and lost. I asked them what was the most surprising thing they learned from running for president. Here’s what they told me.” https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/they-ran-for-president-what-did-they-learn/

"Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_8WzcHqMQ

A high-tech electric ferry service began operating in Stockholm Tuesday, offering commuters a low-carbon way to zip through the waterways of the Swedish capital, which is built on 14 islands. https://apnews.com/article/stockholm-electric-ferry-archipelago-sweden-clean-energy-e2b39de682f97e657538c61999c8291a

A Rural Missouri Town Fights Big Tech, and Itself
You obviously had me at "rural Missouri town." (gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/technology/data-center-peculiar-missouri.html

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"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."--Thomas Jefferson, who obviously wasn't on Facebook

His own pitch letters note that Vonnegut thought GHQ would be an excellent training aid for future military leaders, including cadets at West Point. How are modern audiences to reconcile those words from the same man who wrote Cat’s Cradle? https://www.polygon.com/board-games/467103/kurt-vonnegut-ghq-lost-board-game-publisher-interview

How to flub (and not flub) group decision-making on technical teams
I know. She had you at "pizza."
https://chelseatroy.com/2024/10/22/how-to-flub-and-not-flub-group-decision-making-on-technical-teams/

"The digital repository is the first of its kind in Hawaiʻi that’s island-specific. It contains digitized versions of old yearbooks, reports, photos, maps, historic newspapers and more. Users can search the names of family members, keywords or locations." https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2024-03-07/digital-archive-of-molokai-history-launches-with-more-than-20-000-records

Building Zoltar by Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0qsSSdbxg

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Do CoSo "you are suspended" messages not give a reason why? @meheller wrote to me and @sjvn to say he'd been booted, and he has no idea what he'd done to offend.

(Note that I have not followed his account closely so I have no idea either.)

A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book; invisible when closed. The technique was employed by high end bookmakers throughout history, and in many cases, the hidden artworks went undiscovered for decades or even centuries after their creation. https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/05/there-might-be-a-secret-painting-hiding-in-that-old-book-of-yours