January 9, 2022
The Death of Dobie
Dwayne Hickman has died, age 87. Protagonist of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (where his bestie was Bob Denver as the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs), early co-stars also included Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld -- here they all are in this clip. [more inside]
What MasterClass Online Courses Pay to Lure Hollywood Stars as Teachers
"Life’s hard enough, and I’m looking to make people feel better"
"I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight. I’m happily addicted again to this shit." Bob Saget did a standup set in Jacksonville, Florida Saturday night and was found dead in his room this afternoon. [more inside]
Interview with Stromae
An interview with musician Stromae on French TV news channel TFI that turns into something incredible [more inside]
Roots do not always run deep
A collection of drawings of the root systems of various plants. Some background in this Washington Post article. Plant roots previously on MetaFilter.
It's time to declare this sinking OVER.
The difference between live and dead butterflies
Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality
Hostility and chronic stress are known risk factors for heart disease, but they are costly to assess on a large scale. A cross-sectional regression model based only on Twitter language predicted AHD mortality significantly better than did a model that combined 10 common demographic, socioeconomic, and health risk factors, including smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
"Are you a robot?" "No." "That's exactly what a robot would say."
Stevie Martin and Lola-Rose Maxwell make sketches about the frustrations of dealing with technology, work, and everyday situations, like verifying that you're not a robot, buying food online, working "for exposure", every time you try and go on a website, when you forget your password, trying to print something and others. [more inside]
Musik-Beilage zur Neuen Musik-Zeitung: obscure piano pieces 1880-1928
"The earliest issues of the Neue Musik-Zeitung were anchored by short musical compositions, typically two pages in length for either solo piano or voice and piano, appearing on pages 2 and 3 of each issue... Beginning in the second year, music supplements were added in order to separate the notated music from the text. It is in these supplements that most printed music, advertisements, and the occasional catalogue can be found." [more inside]
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