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• Random notes, romance novel popularity, religion in U.S. public schools, In God We Trust on U.S. currency
• Allie Brosh, the one behind the "all the things" meme
• Interesting oldest mine by humans
• Marketing tactics galore, own a consumer's habits
• Women CEOs? Business as usual, snakes in suits.
• Great white sharks feat orcas
• Great article about what astronauts feel when they go to space
• Human live expectancy versus longevity in the past
• China experience after pandemic
• Giant dirt sucking ships, land reclamation, and island construction
• The story behind the person who recorded the George Floyd video
• Interesting history of police departments and comparison of speed cameras to human police officers
• Insider analysis of what happened during the George Floyd police station arson
• Trials of being a misidentified suspect in a viral video, and the real suspect caught
• More information about the protest situation: National Guard and "defund the police"
• My tribute to the protests
• Giant ancient South American water distribution system
• Some insightful articles about the back-story before the Minneapolis riots
• "Ninja warrior" squirrel obstacle course
• Interesting observations of a professional house cleaner
• Interesting article about an unusual bank robber
• Great article about general health and the quest to reduce amputations in the Mississippi Delta region
• The game theory of job interviewing
• Another article about the issues of under-reporting in the war in Iraq
• Large sea mammals, heat, surface area, volume
• Solar powered barges scooping up plastic from rivers
• A coworker's advisor page
• Does depression have a heritable advantage?
• The Gates Foundation does **not** last forever
• Interesting article about civil rights history in Wells Fargo bank branch mural
• Crows are among the most intelligent animals in a different way
• Another false study trying to link genetics and income, but a great counter-goal at the end of the article
• Interesting Twitter posts about the engine of a large container ship
• Unfortunate record of lies about the Afghanistan War
• More sources about body language, by example
• Averting the Y2K crisis at banks and curious prediction of smartphone
• C64 BASIC program found on Christian rock band vinyl record
• Can a leaf blower fly? No.
• Being a pilot isn't great like it is hyped up to be
• Microsoft experiments with 4-day workweek, productivity increases 40%
• How to stroke a cat and tree planting can be detrimental
• Interesting article on body language
• Barber's pole history
• Random notes on human health and reflection on "warranty coverage" of the human body
• Interesting how to make friends as an adult article
• The other side of the television... again
• Stickers history, and the decline of stickers
• Interesting history of SS Great Eastern
• Interesting story about Wells Fargo shotgun messenger
• Long distance communication before electricity
• Interesting article about heart structure from different exercise
• Interesting spacesuit moisture control mechanism
• Being likeable when saying very little
• Interesting article about former Mormon missionaries in tech
• Advantages of dialup Internet
• Mysteries of the Nile and obelisks
• Modern books still echoing old fashioned vibes
• Hazmat suits
• Interesting venture capital funding and one project
• Two randoms: Beauty and the Geek, Bail Bonds
• When was the National Science Foundation formed?
• Reflection on the "dark saber", light, and the fate of the Universe
• Reflection on Alan Kay's vision of every child doing computer programming
• Two different kinds of "Inspec" and New Relic monitoring
• Is there any such thing as a recession proof job?
• Disadvantages of an open floor plan office
• Vitamin B12 and very interesting history of breakfast cereals
• Miscellaneous notes on culture, software abstractions, and EOMA 68
• How polluted air affects behavior in many ways
• Armored combat? What exactly is warfare?
• Effects of exercise on your brain
• Some interesting articles and random things today
• Young versus old in modern American politics
• Foldable smartphones, unwanted smart home rollouts, and genetically modified chicken egg hatcheries
• Interesting article about a journalist who received a "Top Doctors" award
• Two question programming interview
• Random ad against cauliflower
• Wikipedia article on "steal the land"? No.
• Ex-US-spies spying on US and Uber's driver map interface
• 3 common foods surgeons are now calling death foods
• Some interesting things I've learned from another Twitter
• Random articles discovered during Raspberry Pi research
• Methods for having a server computer go to sleep when unused, and a very interesting blog by a blogger covering some of the same subjects in my blog too
• Construction equipment rental companies
• Digestive system microbes and immigrants
• Pollinator decline, prairies, wetlands, bobcat, golden toad
• Automatic smartphone test lab?
• Least concern endangerment status, extinction, great Pacific garbage patch
• Open office plans, real-time collaborative chat at work
• Interesting articles I've found on Hackaday
• Quarry?
• Diversity does improve financial performance
• My Little Pony Movie, updates on box office and reception
• Publicity stunts and viral marketing
• Deception of color brain scan images in research publications
• Spiders propelling themselves with electrostatic fields?
• False study on low-carb diet
• Interesting idea for a new icon to represent myself
• Interesting bike accessories and gadgets
• Curved TV doesn't live up to the hype
• Random notes today, 09-06
• Popular Mechanics and Home insulation
• Whiteboarding and other notes on interviews
• Solid-state memory
• Why do mushrooms have caps?
• Is "being on TV" no longer a great thing anymore?
• "Concentrate"
• Metallica brand trademark?
• Architect marketing -- Architects are facing a silent war?
• Wizards of the Coast and the D & D Open Game License
• How do you spell "guerrilla"?
• High tension wires
• Height and life expectancy correlation
• Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards, Hendrick Motorsports
• Better umbrellas
• Highly pure Quartz minerals used in semiconductor manufacturing
• Computer possessed by demons?
• Spitballs?
• Fallout shelters and blast doors
• GitHub article on empathy and other interesting psychology
• Red Robin and barbershop music
• Horoscopes
• An article about Star Wars movie and engineering
• Discussion on letter of recommendation
• Alexander's Star
• Laser pointer safety
• Swimsuit preferences
• McDonald's, battery cages
• TensorFlow on Kubernetes and DocToc
• Motor, engine, tractors, traction engines
• Random notes, fireflies, soap notes
• Interesting article on Blaise Pascal
• Interesting behavior questions from StackExchange
• Fraudulent social websites
• Why do birds lay eggs?
• Battle of Los Angeles was fake!
• Random notes today, 06-06
• Burgers and White Castle
• History of the chickenpox vaccine
• Ideas for improving GPLv3 on choosealicense.com
• You are the product
• Golang package manager
• Northern African white rhinoceros
• Porcelain
• Great Slack Outage T-shirts
• Yanny or Laurel part III
• Golang package manager evolution like Ruby
• Yanny or Laurel part II
• Watchman
• LinkedIn
• Ambiguous sound clip
• rtfd.io
• U.S. government Congress composition
• Water fluoridation and negative effects of too much
• Random articles on Hollywood and discrimination/diversity
• Smart phones need "front-view mirrors"
• Etymology of "The brick you save might be your own"
• Distracting black lines, Rockettes discrimination, history of asylum
• Startup.com documentary and stock market stuff
• airbnb discrimination and hoverboards battery safety certification
• Weather modification, cloud seeding, hail
• Playing around with Marathi language typing
• Barista
• You're holding your coffee mug wrong
• Library insurance, tool lending, CPSC, food safety, etc.
• Pipe dream and Yoko Ono