Jan. 18th, 2019

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I have been variously busy and sick, so here is a longer linkspam to catch up.

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Comments on my own posts:

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] buckykingofmemes; response is to [personal profile] sigmaleph) Zeugma; Tumblr silently fails to display certain formatting under even more circumstances than previously believed.

[cw: cannibalism, fantasy racism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] oligopsony) Thought of another thing to say about the ghoul worldbuilding.

[cw: poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] theopjones) In which I continue to have feels about Vimes Boot Theory.

[Wordpress; Wayback] (OP by Ozy Brennan; response is to Aapje) Canada can't make up its collective mind about which date format to use.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] ms-demeanor; response is to [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) Apparently the business-laptop market became very weird about two years ago, which suggests I have about three to five years before the laptop market I interact with becomes very weird. We'll see. (Maybe the businesspeople on the front lines will take the brunt of it?)

(Also, apparently there are people who *don't* get their personal laptops from the used business-laptop market? There are laptops that are specifically *made* to be personal laptops? Like, I guess I was vaguely aware that this was a thing, but this post--though mostly about business computers--brings it home a little more.)

[cw: discussion of infohazards (but without saying what they are)] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] somnulencelogencia) When someone tells you you're better off not knowing something because it will scar you for life, they're usually right. (To help you make an informed decision about whether to read *this* post: OP specifies which story the infohazard they're talking about is found in (no link, but enough to easily google it), while I do not; I have read the story OP refers to, and the infohazard there canonically *cannot* break the fourth wall.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] sigmaleph) Podcasts and video-game grinding go great together. Podcasts and sufficiently-simple archiving tasks go fairly well together too.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] thedarlingone) Various responses to the responses to some ask memes I sent; the longest bit is about the relationship between temperature and type of clothing worn (and how this relationship seems to often be a lot weaker in other people than it is in me).

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] prosopanonymous; response is to [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) The evolutionary origins of prosopagnosia. Addendum here.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] thedarlingone) In which I help track down a link to a translation/joke-explainer. (Some pretty good fic recs in here too.)

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Links:

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Fetal nurse sharks swim around within their mother's wombs (yes, there are multiple wombs), and have even been known to poke their heads out.

[Financial Times; Wayback] (by David Smith; h/t Matt Levine) The life of a professional yacht deliverer.

[cw: amnesia] [TextFiles; Wayback] (by Jason Scott) Happy 10th birthday to the Archive Team! (Note: this is the 10-year-old post proposing its creation.)

[Wordpress; Wayback] (by Martin Gregory) Professional trash-picker comes across a collection of photographs from the mid 19th to early 20th centuries, showcases them on his blog. Some neat glimpses into the past here.

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