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January
- https://nextcloud-talk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/TURN/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/health/coronavirus-smell-taste.html
- https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/01/after-embracing-remote-work-in-2020-companies-face-conflicts-making-it-permanent/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190821233208if_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/ - prosopagnosia
- Nextcloud one-click migrtion:
- https://mastodon.infra.de/@galaxis/105498883403636006 - Kobo hacking
- https://twitter.com/mattmay/status/1344728355912880129 - Flash and platform design
- https://pureos.net/ - OS designed to be friendly on both desktop and mobile hardware
- https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ - modular phone that runs PureOS (very expensive, though)
- https://scantailor.org/ - automatic fixing of photographed documents
- https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py - Mastodon export data viewer
- https://vulpine.club/@rey/105510069682660487 - how to get the data
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/ - digital advertising not actually that effective
- https://soatok.blog/2020/05/09/how-to-de-anonymize-scam-knock-off-sites-hiding-behind-cloudflare/
- https://www.sciencealert.com/autopsies-reveal-the-terrible-damage-coronavirus-can-inflict-on-your-brain
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M - repurposing old laptops & components
- OPEN ME UP! HP DV6 7000 series and HP Envy 15 Disassembly
- https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/in-774-ad-the-sun-blasted-earth-with-the-biggest-storm-in-10000-years
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/12/956051995/why-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-and-avoid-crowds-after-getting-the-covid-19-vac
- https://www.stereogum.com/2112251/the-number-ones-janet-jacksons-when-i-think-of-you/columns/the-number-ones/ - Janet Jackson
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/health/covid-cdc-variant.html
- https://www.vox.com/22220301/covid-spread-new-strain-variants-safe-grocery-store-n95-masks-vaccine
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lungs-scarring-smokers-lungs/
- http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210117-stromatolites-the-earths-oldest-living-lifeforms - stromatolite, Australia
- https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/about - Ojibwe People's Dictionary
- A curious observer's guide to quantum mechanics:
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-2-the-particle-melting-pot/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-3-rose-colored-glasses/
- https://arstechnica.com/features/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-4-looking-at-the-stars/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-5-catching-a-wave/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-6-two-quantum-spooks/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/23/business/package-didnt-order-brushing/index.html - scams on Amazon
- https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral-history-of-disney-the-emperors-new-groove.html
February
- https://twitter.com/sky_evangeline/status/1356103619481894913?s=20 - Discord MP4 vulnerability
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013258/-The-Good-News-you-are-NOT-hearing-about-the-vaccines
- https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Apollo-11-astronauts-see-on-the-moon-that-had-them-so-shaken-up/answer/John-Flavin-1 - first Lunar landing, Apollo 11
- https://fortune.com/longform/iowa-covid-derecho-thunderstorm-2020-election-trump-biden-polarization/
- https://feministkilljoys.com/2021/01/27/apologies-for-harm-apologies-as-harm/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-14-400-year-old-relationship-with-bread
- MusicBrainz: comprehensive music database
- https://undark.org/2021/02/10/the-enduring-mystery-of-critchfields-spruce/ -- pleistocene North America
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210128-right-to-repair-how-the-french-are-fighting-avoidable-waste
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/12/50-years-of-carole-king-tapestry - Carole King/Tapestry
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-languages-that-could-change-the-way-you-see-the-world
- https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1362343044301922306 - autism and RSD
- https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-levitated-a-small-tray-using-nothing-but-light/
- https://books2read.com/ - indie books
- intersex:
- http://www.talkingelectronics.com/projects/100%20IC%20Circuits/1-100_IC-Ccts.html - IC circuits
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/middle-high-school-bully-depression_n_602c0800c5b65259c4e52240 - bullying
- Library Genesis (libgen.gs; libgen.lc; libgen.li; genesis.lib)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/do-certain-sounds-enrage-you-neurologists-may-know-why - misophonia is real
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-narcissists-lose-popularity-over-time
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-led-zeppelin-came-to-be
- https://www.quora.com/What-interesting-thing-did-you-read-today/answer/Vignesh-Atm - Nicki Minaj
- https://theattic.jezebel.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-joss-whedon-and-the-myth-of-the-h-1846288271 - Joss Whedon
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/how-know-when-pandemic-over/618122/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/chills-and-thrills-why-some-people-love-music-and-others-don-t - psychology of music
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138y6mtgll8 - Sia, autism...
- https://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto - heat pumps, part one
March
- https://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/the-family-that-couldnt-say-hippopotamus - natural language
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2czFuIYmQ - problems with vinyl records
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/milestone-experiment-proves-quantum-communication-really-is-faster
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrBTcnnK6c - Marmite
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-70-percent-alcohol-disinfects-better-than-91-percent-according-to-a-microbiologist
May
June
- https://www.cityam.com/virgin-media-o2-promises-market-shake-up-after-31bn-merger/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/use-the-magic-5-1-ratio-to-improve-all-your-relationships
- http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210527-the-woman-who-walked-around-the-world
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-vitamin-pills-don-t-work-and-may-be-bad-for-you
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-it-s-super-wood - super strong wood and transparent wood
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33439749/ - sublingual estradiol
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-is-the-most-bizarre-grammar-rule-you-probably-never-heard-of - adjective-order grammar rule
- https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-when-Costco-says-it-only-sells-Top-Tier-gasoline-How-does-it-differ-from-regular-gas/answer/Charles-Sendicker - gasoline
- https://decrypt.co/73302/bitcoin-lightning-network-twitter-only-matter-time-jack-dorsey? -- Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Bitcoin
- https://torrentfreak.com/wormhole-instant-encrypted-file-sharing-powered-by-webtorrent-210611/
- https://decrypt.co/73440/bitcoin-miners-lock-in-privacy-focused-taproot-upgrade -- what could possibly go wrong
- https://hbr.org/2021/06/my-fixation-on-time-management-almost-broke-me -- time management
- Jellyfin -- like Plex but libre
- https://twitter.com/newworlddd555/status/1403692131429064704 - animal friendship in the wild
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-grand-unified-theory-of-rogue-waves - rogue waves
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/jimi-hendrix-s-are-you-experienced-10-things-you-didn-t-know
- https://www.orionsarm.com/ - Orion's Arm shared fictional universe
- https://nadeko.bot/commands - Nadeko, a Discord bot
- https://bananominer.com/ - earn Banano by contributing to medical research (like Folding@Home)
- https://colony.io/
- https://colony.io/product/app/ - Tools to Organize and Incentivize Collaborators, Contributors, and Communities. / Organize your colony into teams, projects, departments, or whatever structure suits you.
- https://blog.colony.io/colony-v2-launch/
- https://docs.requarks.io/en/rendering - looks interesting but not clear on what it actually is/does
- https://www.coingecko.com/en - like Coindesk
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-case-for-the-humble-garbage-disposal
- https://youtu.be/aWMyFfRxB_4 - Scanlime does a teardown of the Ring doorbell camera ("It's not good.")
- https://github.com/propublica/politwoops-tweet-collector
- https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/discord-thread-bot
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/office365-pro-plus-wont-hijack-your-search-engine-after-all/
- https://www.circle.com/en/circle-account?hsLang=en
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ebp4/how-pizza-took-over-our-freezers - frozen pizza. hot pockets
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-kung-pao-chicken-that-tastes-better-than-takeout
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/anatomy-of-a-car-crash
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-american-obsession-with-lawns
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gentle-parenting-explainer-no-rewards-no-punishments-no-misbehaving-kids
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obsessive-life-and-mysterious-death-of-the-fisherman-who-discovered-the-loch-ness-monster Loch Ness monster
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/health/supernatural-encounters-pandemic-loved-ones-blake/index.html
- https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/the-beatles-get-back-exclusive-deep-dive-peter-jacksons-movie
- https://www.sciencealert.com/our-planet-has-a-27-5-million-year-old-pulse-says-study-we-don-t-know-what-causes-it
- https://www.bustle.com/life/youve-been-scrambling-your-eggs-wrong-heres-how-to-do-it-right - scrambled eggs
- methylphenidate hydrochloride:
- https://woob.tech/applications/bank - online banking-scraper code (mostly EU banks, looks like)
- https://twitter.com/teacup_art/status/1408808105698267141?s=20 - Jeffrey Catherine Jones
- https://www.datasketch.co/ - proprietary data-visualization service (has free tier)
- https://letterboxd.com/ -- looks like GoodReads, but for films
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline - Google chat services
- parenting:
July
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mathematician-finds-easier-way-to-solve-quadratic-equations
- https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/plants-feel-pain-and-might-even-see
- https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353 - Audacity again
- https://www.wired.com/story/trucks-move-past-cars-road-autonomy/ - self-driving trucks
- https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-just-looked-inside-mars-heres-what-they-found/ - Mars
- COVID-19:
- https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/21/22586870/google-reader-ode-end-of-the-good-internet - Google Reader
- https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a36843667/melissa-febos-proposal-relationship-essay/ - love
- human space exploration:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-international-space-station-is-more-valuable-than-many-people-realize
In 1984 when President Reagan directed NASA to build a permanently occupied space station, no one could have predicted the critical role it would play in human space exploration nearly four decades later.
- Oh please.
- I always said it was an absolute crime that they let Skylab burn up, and it always seemed glaringly obvious how important it would be to have a waystation (better yet, make that plural) -- as long as we could be bothered to maintain it and build it out as needed.
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-international-space-station-is-more-valuable-than-many-people-realize
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-unexpected-philosophy-icelanders-live-by - life in Iceland
- https://twrp.me/ - some sort of recovery software for Android
- https://ew.com/movies/costume-designers-evolving-female-comic-book-characters-black-widow-loki/ - female costume design in movies; Black Widow
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210713-why-introverts-excelled-at-working-from-home - introverts, extroverts, and the pandemic
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pommes-persillade-potatoes-with-parsley-and-garlic -- recipe
- https://decrypt.co/76424/circle-unveils-backing-behind-dollar-pegged-cryptocurrency - USDCoin
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/brain-signals-converted-words-speak-person-paralysis
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHbLV7xEhc - modelling lunar orbital mechanics to determine if Eagle might still be in orbit
- https://kotaku.com/discord-buys-ai-company-to-combat-a-big-problem-harass-1847292114 - Discord
- https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1415991083939635200?s=19 - Telegram's crypto
- https://wiki.libravatar.org/running_your_own/ - Redmine is apparently compatible with this standard
- Odoo:
- https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1415670096761065472 - Appalachian mountains
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pandora-s-vox - Pandora
- https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/07/07/jetpacks-willy-suitor-where-are-they-now-2021-daily-cover
- https://rys.io/covid/ - scariest COVID data
- https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before -- food expiration dates
- lawns:
- https://www.prisjakt.no/c/mobiltelefoner?b_11118=1 - cellphones with replaceable batteries
- OnePlus per-app notif sounds:
- https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/different-notification-sound-on-different-apps.854450/ - initial answer claims it's not possible; someone else posts screenshots showing how
- https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/notification-sounds.1359165/
- for some apps, like AquaMail, you may have to enable per-category sounds in the app
- https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/6/30/22555687/terminator-2-judgement-day-t2-oral-history
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2010s-is-the-decade-we-finally-stopped-obsessing-over-how-a-man-should-dress -- in case it comes up again...
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/110377/china-digital-yuan-test-programmable-chengdu
- https://decrypt.co/75035/what-dfinitys-internet-computer-means-for-the-future-of-crypto
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-alberta-won-the-rat-race
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/journey-to-antarctica-is-this-what-a-climate-catastrophe-looks-like-in-real-time -- Antarctica glacier melting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-get-rid-of-cockroaches-for-good-according-to-bug-experts - at least one claim in this article (that bug bombs are ineffective against cockroaches) is wrong. Also, it's still advising that you buy a ready-made formula rather than just making the stuff from household ingredients.
- https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/crows-are-self-aware-and-know-what-they-know-just-like-humans
- http://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/heath/heathkit.html Heathkit
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-ridiculously-easy-chicken-bites-with-only-2-ingredients
- https://twitter.com/v21/status/1412768526813827077 - Audacity fork maintainer stabbed by 4chan mob
- https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity - Audacity fork
- Bitcoin:
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2021/07/08/are-institutional-investors-undervaluing-the-taproot-upgrade-to-bitcoin/
- https://decrypt.co/75591/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-calls-bitcoin-mathematical-miracle
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/110916/jack-dorsey-square-bitcoin-hardware-wallet
- https://www.popsci.com/space/nasa-new-venus-missions-davinci-veritas/ - Venus
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-USB-C-necessary-when-the-previous-USB-was-adequate-to-accomplish-everyday-tasks/answer/Andrew-Silverman-10
- https://symfony.com/doc/current/the-fast-track/en/index.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-boy-who-saved-batman
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-decade-of-music-is-lost-on-your-ipod-these-are-the-deleted-years-now-let-us-praise-them
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-long-linguistic-journey-to-dagnabbit -- taboo deformation
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-brontosaurus-is-back -- history of "brontosaurus"
- https://obsidian.md/features - proprietary, but may have some good ideas for Wikcess
- https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ - converts ASCII diagrams into SVG images
- the Loki TV show:
August
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/make-them-care-about-what-you-think-and-other-writing-advice-from-nora-ephron
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/dean-kamen-viral-mystery-invention-2001.html - history of the Segway and Dean Kamen
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/08/04/fentys-fortune-rihanna-is-now-officially-a-billionaire/ - Rihanna, Fenty Beauty, Savage x Fenty, LVMH
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous -- amaranth
- https://www.newstatesman.com/marvel-studios-bankruptcy-box-office-kevin-feige - Marvel Studios, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kevin Feige
- What3Words Is Not A Good App | Mia Mulder a somewhat diffuse criticism
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/ - Paul Stamets, mushrooms for space construction
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mom-s-chicken-fettuccine-alfredo-video
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bananas-have-died-out-once-before
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years
- https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/dissociative-identity-disorder-youtube.html
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell - Lake Powell, Lake Mead, climate change
- https://www.popsci.com/science/haiti-earthquake-aftershocks/ - Haiti, earthquakes & other disasters
- https://www.npr.org/2021/08/13/1027426388/jeopardy-host-mike-richards -- Jeopardy!, Mike Richards
- https://www.salon.com/2021/08/15/nasa-slightly-improves-the-odds-that-asteroid-bennu-hits-earth-humanity-will-be-ready-regardless/ - Bennu, asteroid deflection
- https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/7-biggest-bitcoin-myths - biased, but not obviously wrong
- https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-eip1559 - Ethereum
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqnAcWBTdbU - music recommendations: David Bennett's top 20 albums
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210815-an-immense-mystery-older-than-stonehenge - dawn of civilization, Gobekli Tepe
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/scott-mcleod-missed-his-chance-to-go-to-the-moon-but-landed-the-love-of-his-life - true love and NASA "boys' club" sexual politics
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-get-rid-of-black-mold-naturally - home remedies for black mold
- https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/106788757410618084 - mobile Linuxes
- https://decrypt.co/79037/blackrock-bets-big-bitcoin-mining-sector-rakes-44-million-day - why crypto is going up again, basically
- https://ensia.com/features/solar-recycling/ - solar panel recycling
- https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/lc1wcg/cell_phone_plan_comparison_chart_2021_update_now/
- https://www.airtable.com/product - similar to Wikcess?
- https://musiversal.com/pricing - online session musician service
- https://beach.city/@scanlime/106805775489778584 - based on this discussion, my understanding of cryptocurrency is wayyyy off
- https://tineye.com/ - reverse image search (does not search images by text, though)
- https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why
- https://www.digicert.com/help/ -- SSL checker
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/desi-arnaz-how-he-changed-the-culture-of-tv-with-a-single-business-deal - reruns, recording TV shows on film, and I Love Lucy
- https://twitter.com/Nereide/status/1175422902465900544 - G+ refugees
- https://decrypt.co/79567/government-cuba-says-will-recognize-regulate-cryptocurrencies
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-smartphone-makers-lock-away-the-battery-compartments-on-their-phones-to-make-the-battery-difficult-impossible-to-replace/answer/Dave-Haynie - the iPhone, planned obsolescence, sealed batteries
- https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-a-smart-contract - how coinbase explains smart contracts. Is it wrong in any key respect?
- https://lithub.com/meet-the-real-life-inspiration-behind-mr-toad/ - early history of cars/motoring
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/28/oral-history-of-oxfordastrazeneca-making-a-vaccine-in-a-year-is-like-landing-a-human-on-the-moon
- https://rusingh.com/2021/08/30/fediverse-google-plus-circles/
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/brett-butler-speaks-out-on-financial-struggles-1234998647/ - Brett Butler, Grace Under Fire, depression
September
- https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/30/frank-oz-on-life-as-fozzie-bear-miss-piggy-and-yoda-id-love-to-do-the-muppets-again-but-disney-doesnt-want-me - Frank Oz, The Muppets, Sesame Street, Disney
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/116413/vitalik-buterin-reveals-his-biggest-regret-about-ethereum - Ethereum
- https://magazine.atavist.com/the-girl-in-the-picture-aundria-bowman-dennis-murder-michigan-cold-case/ - the long road to solving a serial murder case
- https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ - algorithmically evolving 2d cars
- https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/the-enduring-value-of-nfts-on-algorand
- https://www.okayplayer.com/music/the-making-of-lauryn-hill-the-miseducation-of-lauryn-hill.html - Lauryn Hill
- https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1 - history of issues with the Discord API
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/meet-the-people-who-believe-they-ve-traveled-to-a-past-life
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-break-toxic-relationship-patterns
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-land-a-job-you-re-not-qualified-for
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-who-brush-still-get-cavities/
- https://www.allure.com/story/future-hair-replacement-treatments
- 2021-08-11 Duran Duran Talk New Album, 'Invisible,' Working With Artificial Intelligence
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/08/19/secret-life-worlds-most-hated-insect/ - mosquitoes
- https://archive.org/details/en_vs.net_2002_pro - Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional: downloads
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-finally-know-why-stress-turns-your-hair-white
- https://libgen.is/ - Library Genesis: a site for finding... stuff?
- https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58465559 - one path to musicianship
- https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/tape-measure-guide/ - tape measure user's guide
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/13/2050417/-The-Daily-Bucket-Late-Summer-in-the-Mt-Baker-Wilderness-Area-Who-Shrunk-the-Glaciers - Mount Baker
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/12/what-i-saw-that-night-was-real-is-it-time-to-take-aliens-more-seriously- - UFOs
- https://thehustle.co/why-most-gas-stations-dont-make-money-from-selling-gas/ - the gasoline retail business
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/12/1036356773/i-got-a-mild-breakthrough-case-heres-what-i-wish-id-known - COVID-19
- Inspiration4: first all-civilian orbital crew
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698 - "Havana syndrome", actually a worldwide problem, may have something to do with microwaves
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/acting-like-an-extravert-has-benefits-but-not-for-introverts
- https://www.theverge.com/22654785/blockchain-explained-cryptocurrency-what-is-stake-nft
- https://www.polygon.com/features/22675483/lilo-and-stitch-disney-animation-chris-sanders-dean-deblois - Lilo & Stitch
- https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/9/21/elvira-cassandra-peterson-comes-out-talks-19-year-relationship
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/hidden-hearing-loss-is-hitting-people-of-all-ages-neuroscientists-are-still-debating-why
- DeepDream: the algorithm which puts dog-faces in everything
- https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22664709/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-december-science-hubble - James Webb Space Telescope
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-coolest-way-to-keep-food-cold-without-refrigeration - using evaporative cooling, zeer pots; work best in arid climates, of course
- https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different - the Framework fully-repairable laptop
- https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210920-foundation-the-unfilmable-sci-fi-epic-now-on-our-screens - Foundation saga
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-human-brain-stays-young-even-as-we-age
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-lifelong-journey-to-find-pee-wee-herman -- Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee Hermann
- https://www.postandcourier.com/greenland/greenland-is-a-wonderland-of-ice-its-melting-glaciers-could-seal-the-lowcountrys-fate/article_0eb9739a-e435-11eb-b0bf-939544bf8411.html - Greenland, climate change, US/NC/Charleston...
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mars-died-billions-of-years-ago-and-its-guts-are-still-spilling-into-space - Mars
- https://www.quora.com/Why-did-NASA-not-use-the-the-Space-Shuttles-External-Tank-ET-as-a-structure-to-enlarge-the-ISS-or-even-create-new-environments-like-storage-containers-or-habitable-structures-that-could-be-used-in-space-instead-of/answer/Steve-Smith-1155 - using Space Shuttle external tanks in orbit
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/music-saved-her-life-now-she-wants-to-save-yours - acoustic therapy or is that music therapy?
- https://metropolisjapan.com/why-tokyo-works/ - TLDR from Reddawg: "Decentralized, Relaxed Zoning, Public Transit everywhere, NOT made to some grand design, and allowed to evolve on its own."
October
- https://kylechayka.substack.com/p/essay-the-digital-death-of-collecting -- this is just one reason why I don't trust proprietary services with my stuff
- https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-a-man-who-has-inner-strength-and-emotional-resilience - rethinking masculinity
- https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/essays/babel-4/ - writingbot
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2021/10/02/texas-poised-to-be-a-world-leader-in-bitcoin-and-blockchain/
- https://apnews.com/article/merck-says-experimental-covid-pill-cuts-worst-effects-a9a2245fdcee324f6bbd776a0fffcc60
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-first-lesson-of-marriage-101-there-are-no-soul-mates - marriage
- Twitch source-code hack:
- https://kdl.dev/ - KDL document language
- https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37867192/how-daniel-craig-changed-james-bond/ - James Bond, Daniel Craig
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_6OzZAh5k - Pauli exclusion principle
- https://www.slow-journalism.com/delayed-gratification-magazine/eight-years-stuck-on-the-suez-canal -- Suez Canal, 1967...
- https://web.hypothes.is/
- Computational thinking
- https://git.ondrovo.com/MightyPork/group-actor - Groups for ActivityPub
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spanish-stonehenge-drought - submerged Spanish Stonehenge, Valdecañas Reservoir, Augustóbriga (Roman city).
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-did-the-world-s-smallest-flightless-bird-get-to-inaccessible-island -- Inaccessible Island
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/13/a-moment-that-changed-me-patrick-stewart-on-the-teacher-who-spotted-his-talent-and-saved-him - Patrick Stewart
- https://aeon.co/essays/when-a-friendship-turns-sour-more-than-feelings-get-hurt - lay overview of research into friendship
- https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/hearing-aids-book-deal-face-for-picasso.html - hearing aids vs. US healthcare
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/crispy-chicken-thighs-with-garlic-and-rosemary -- excessively complex but still delicious-sounding roast chicken recipe
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/14-colonial-era-slang-terms-to-work-into-modern-conversation - obscure conversational language
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58966376 - St. Helena island
- https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/ - artificial pseudointelligence
- https://www.gq.com/story/inside-amazons-wheel-of-time
- https://twitter.com/michaeltbacon/status/1451561454851837955?s=21 - Durham Central Market and supply-chain limitations for independent grocery stores
- https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source - nope
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-crispy-juicy-fried-chicken
- permacomputing
- https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/superhero-cosplay-scientific-benefits - superhero stories make us more helpful
- https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048365940/50-years-ago-the-electric-company-used-comedy-to-boost-kids-reading-skills - ultimately, it was killed by capitalism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-edible-plants-for-urban-foragers - edible yard plants
- https://www.theverge.com/22734645/apple-macbook-pro-2021-ports-magsafe-touch-bar-usb-c-future - undoing their own mistakes
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdeay/the-dune-screenplay-was-written-in-ms-dos - MS-DOS, Movie Master
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-it-s-like-to-get-an-autism-diagnosis-after-years-of-being-called-difficult-dramatic-and-lazy
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-to-your-body-when-you-give-up-caffeine
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-much-money-is-enough-this-simple-thought-experiment-gives-you-an-exact-number-to-aim-for
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22745234/facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-zuckerberg-rebrand
- https://www.ecwid.com/pricing - online store with free tier
- https://takenode.org/info - self-registration for ToS of creative works (but how do they prevent people from registering works they don't own?)
- https://www.mining.com/liquid-metal-helps-convert-co2-into-useful-resources/ - CO2 capture
November
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/a-once-quiet-battle-to-replace-the-space-station-suddenly-is-red-hot/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/decades-of-failing-to-recognize-adhd-in-girls-has-created-a-lost-generation-of-women
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-physical-law-an-alien-intelligence
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-great-mystery-of-the-mind-meet-the-people-who-have-unusual-or-non-existent-inner-voices - TIL: "inner voices" is usually meant literally
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-was-one-problem-after-another - Woodstock 50 sounds like it became a capitalist cesspit
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-update-to-a-37-year-old-digital-protocol-could-profoundly-change-the-way-music-sounds - MIDI 2.0
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bacon-spinach-stuffed-chicken
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17980866/nextdoor-bestofnextdoor-nirav-tolia-jenn-takahashi-launch - Nextdoor
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bananas-have-died-out-once-before - reprint
- https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(21)00465-3 - hardened wood: sharper than steel, harder than iron
- 2013-12 Effective support for community resource management (paywalled, but may be on SciHub) - community resource management
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/extraordinary-500-year-old-shipwreck-rewriting-history-age-discovery-180978825/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-north-carolina-is-the-most-linguistically-diverse-u-s-state - dialects, North Carolina
- https://tinkeredthinking.com/index.php?id=833 - Mayfer's law vs. sunk-cost fallacy
- "Mayfer's Law: The miscalculation of time required for achievement enables the undertaking of endeavors far larger than we would knowingly attempt to achieve."
- https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1052773575/in-jupiters-swirling-great-red-spot-nasa-spacecraft-finds-hidden-depths - Jupiter
- building UPSs and portable power:
- https://opencorporates.com/ - state-independent corporate registration data
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-plastic-recycling-system-is-broken-here-s-how-we-can-fix-it - plastic recycling
- https://twitter.com/aaronreynolds/status/1459274407390683142?s=20 - Netflix and the job market
- https://pointieststick.com/2021/11/13/be-flexible-to-win-big/ - I actually don't dislike most of what he (KDE developer) says, except he's way too focused on "the market" and not enough on "making stuff usable and useful".
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/15/visionaries-overemotional-people-happiness-sensitivity-smells-sounds - on being "too sensitive"
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/easy-chicken-tikka-masala - chicken tikka masala
- https://decrypt.co/86251/pharrell-nft-creators-form-dao-protect-artist-rights
- https://yewtu.be/feed/popular - Invidious, an open-source YouTube front-end
- https://crystal-lang.org/ - Ruby-like language
- https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671 - Rust's entire mod team resigns
- https://www.inputmag.com/culture/pictures-for-sad-children-webcomic-simone-veil-interview
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/06/bob-dylan-nobel-spark-notes-plagarism/530283/ - Bob Dylan
December
- https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107368463116215756 - discussion about OVH
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/1/22812752/square-changing-name-block-jack-dorsey-cash-app-tidal-crypto-spiral
- https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/12/how-kobo-beats-kindle-on-library-books/
- https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/ - "A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications. See the list for supported devices."
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/language-is-the-scaffold-of-the-mind - people don't actually need language in order to think, but acquiring language at an early age is necessary for some aspects of thought
- https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/
- BitPay: cryptocoin merchant processing service
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/johnny-cash-politics-blood-sweat-and-tears.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/yoko-ono-beatles-get-back.html
- «Inexplicably, Yoko Ono is there.» ...inexplicably?
- «"Why is she there?" I pleaded with my television set.» ...because she and John are in love and want to be together?
- «Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the hapless director of the original documentary» Peter Jackson repeatedly praised his work.
- «Of course her appearance in the studio is obtrusive. The fact that she is not there to directly influence the band’s recordings only makes her behavior more ridiculous. To deny this is to sap her of her power.» omg. Who is this douchebag. Amanda Hess... that name sounds familiar... Just checking the two pieces I had filed on her, she's normally on the sensible side.
- «A "mundane" task becomes peculiar when you choose to perform it in front of Paul McCartney’s face as he tries to write "Let It Be." When you repeat this for 21 days, it becomes astonishing.» Wow. Like, it's not ok to do anything else, quietly, while a band is recording? (Also, "in front of [his] face?" Yoko never once got in Paul's face, nor anyone else's except John, which was usually to give him a kiss.)
- «Ono simply never leaves. She refuses to decamp to the sidelines, but she also resists acting out stereotypes; she appears as neither a doting naïf nor a needling busybody. Instead she seems engaged in a kind of passive resistance, defying all expectations of women who enter the realm of rock genius.» ....isn't that a good thing?
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
- https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce - how the calendar got so messed-up
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/new-dad-depression-trend-therapy-help.html
- https://raumet.com/marketing - making a living from independent FOSS development
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/the-hdmi-forum-follows-the-usb-if-in-using-new-version-numbers-to-refer-to-old-ports/ - are they already trying to kill off HDMI, or what?
- https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/13/is-nuclear-fusion-the-hottest-new-renewable-on-the-block
- https://aeon.co/essays/how-we-came-to-depend-on-the-week-despite-its-artificiality - history of the calendar, presumably
- https://www.wired.com/story/online-gaming-is-the-new-therapists-office/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-great-blues-singer-gladys-bentley-broke-all-the-rules
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-power-law-keeps-the-brain-s-perceptions-balanced
- https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-03401-w/index.html
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nonbinary-gender-representation_n_61b8d864e4b06621e42b4b15
- https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/12/14/22833925/beatles-get-back-documentary-questions?utm_source=pocket-newtab - more Get Back
- https://www.honeybeehillsfarm.com/about - organic farm/CSA in Prospect Hill, NC
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/billy-preston-fifth-beatle/
- https://www.solocontutti.com/download_page.php - Solocontutti: internet musical realtime collaboration app
- https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-follow-ancient-clues-to-reveal-oldest-social-network/ - prehistory of social networking
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-extraordinary-way-we-ll-rebuild-our-shrinking-islands - building up beaches through passive harnessing of wave action
- https://floss.social/@carlschwan/107508229390635109 - Microsoft appears to be illegally re-licensing open-source code
- https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html - current location of the James Webb Space Telescope, in realtime
- https://enlacehacktivista.org/ -- hacker history/information center
- https://www.vox.com/recode/22839485/space-station-iss-orbit-satellites -- this happened to Skylab due to an unfortunate set of circumstances; what is the excuse this time?