Linking Park October 22, 2022

Recommend Me a Book is an interesting way to select a book to read by sampling just the first page. I don’t know why they didn’t call it Ishmael.

I am slowly considering Glass as my primary photo-sharing site (wonder what happened to Bokeh?), but this essay -Instagram v Glass – is a good insight to why.

Something that has caused our world to literally grind to a halt and disrupted our lives for 2+ years is so small that it would fit in a can of cola.

The cultural appropriation continues unabated, with black people still being stolen from as Black English is being misidentified as internet slang.

Depression, anxiety may escalate chances of long COVID. Dare I blame my mom’s COVID infection in early January of this year to her unexpected death in September.

Talking about comorbidities that could make your COVID worse, scientists have discovered more than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19 in a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nope, you cannot just get it over with.

Who among us doesn’t remember carrying around a stack of these and then having one of them go corrupt thus taking your entire project with it? And now there’s just one last person left standing in the floppy disk business.

When can we truly wirelessly charge our phones? Perhaps soon (or never) coz researchers just wirelessly transmitted power over 98 feet of thin air

America is great at making everything into a tourist trap. Even pain and grief. I wonder how 9/11 survivors and the families of the ones lost feel about New York's hottest tourist attraction.

Finally, academia may be waking up to the realization that we ought to reward research for being useful — not just flashy.