Thursday, November 02, 2023

Friday Links!

Leading off this week, and gee, what a shocker: People who believe in "manifesting" to "cosmically attract" success are more likely to go bankrupt, science shows.

This is very ugly, and why it's hard to buy anything EA makes these days: Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families.

This was stunning, and reminds me of when I was a kid, when Celia went onshore at Houston at 75MPH, backed out, and strengthened to 135MPH in ten hours as it went down the coast and smacked us in the mouth: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco this week.

From Wally, and it's quite fun: Rush E Animation. An excellent read: A Crash Course on Malaysia's National Condiment: Sambal. This is clever and funny, and I wonder how long it will work: Electronic wolves with glowing red eyes watch over Japanese landscapes. The striking thing about this article is how many of these people are still in totally speculative assets in some form: The People Who Lost Serious Cash on NFTs.

From C. Lee, and it's an excellent watch: The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler. This is a terrific read: The Beauty Who Created the Beast. A bite of history: We Have the Salvation Army to Thank for the Hipster Doughnut. This is fantastic (and dense): A New Generation of Mathematicians Pushes Prime Number Barriers. From the impeccable history, The Digital Antiquarian: A Digital Pornutopia, Part 1: The Seedy-ROM Revolution. This is fascinating: In the Mouth of Sadness: On the Erotic Bummer. These are lovely: The Best Japanese Love Haiku to Read to Your Valentine.

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