March 20, 2020
Dance Music Sex Romance: Prince Streams 4 U
NPR reminds you of 4 2017 Prince playlists via Spotify. "This is Prince, never 2 B 4gotten: the man who made music divine." [more inside]
Should I eat it?
"[P]lenty of folks—myself included—have been confused or curious about the safety of allowing restaurants to continue preparing and serving food. Is it actually safe? Should I reheat the food when I get it home? Is it better to support local businesses by ordering food, or am I only putting workers and delivery people at risk? And if I’m cooking my own food, what guidelines should I follow?" J. Kenji López-Alt, of Serious Eats, gives us answers in Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide.
A fair bit of listening to get through
Take's Bluegrass Album Channel contains a multitude of recordings, primarily digitized from out-of-print vinyl albums. Take has also created channels dedicated to Folk Blues Albums, Early Jazz Albums, Live Roots Music, Live Bluegrass, and Early Country Albums.
Nice move, Audible
Free stories from Audible mostly for kids, as described on the site:
For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
The Functional Sovereignty of Facebook
“ The internet, and the constellation of digital technologies that we call “tech” more broadly, intensifies the fundamental contradiction in capitalism between wealth being collectively produced and privately owned. It takes the Manchester model and elevates it to the nth degree. It makes the creation of wealth more collective than ever before, piling up vast new fortunes in the process — fortunes that, as they did in Engels’ day, accrue to a small handful of owners. ” From Manchester to Barcelona: Changing the story we tell ourselves about the internet. (Logic Mag)
"Sex with the light on isn't a kink, Rose."
Episode 50: Glen Writes a Golden Girls To celebrate the 50th episode of their podcast Gayest Episode Ever, hosts Drew Mackie and Glen Lakin invited over some performer friends to record a radio play of a 'Too Hot for Prime Time' spec script Lakin had written for one of their all-time favorite classic sitcoms. Prepare for double (and single) entendres out the wazoo! [more inside]
"It is extremely unlikely that any other TLDs will be created"
"On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix. The problem was simple: there were 455 hosts on the ARPANET and the situation was getting out of control." The History of the URL (The Cloudflare Blog)
Probably how Bunnicula got started...
Did you know than animals eating strawberries look terrifying? The line between cute and gruesome is surprisingly thin.
For a different perspective on diasters
Biggest explosion (that we've seen) since the Big Bang. Just love this quote:
"The difference is that you could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies in a row into the crater this eruption punched into the cluster's hot gas," she said. [more inside]
A Moment's Respite: Autumn Oaks by George Inness
Set your cares aside to roam this deep landscape by George Inness, 1878 George Inness was an American painter in the 1800’s. He was a master at capturing that sort of atmospheric glow we see sometimes in the morning or the evening, or before or after a storm. [more inside]
Animal Cameras
Dr. Margie Housley (@margiehousley): Okay friends in isolation/quarantine, I am here for you with a THREAD of animal live cams:
raining blood from a lacerated sky / everybody's having fun
Mashup master Bill McClintock presents Slay-52's Raining Lobsters, a combination of Slayer's Raining Blood with the B-52s' Rock Lobster
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Happy End for Orchestra
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