Friday Links!
Eli 25.0 has a birthday today!
Leading off this week, what an adventure: The Boys Who Ran Away to New York: How Two Dublin Kids Fooled the World in 1985.
This is an incredible, bizarre, tragic story: https://wThe mystery of why Sonia Exelby paid a man to kill her.
An even-handed article on what AI can and can't do in a specific use case: What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
From the Texas Monthly archives, and it's terrifically witty: The Hog Chronicles.
Incredibly, it still lives: Nudists, peaceniks and freeloading travellers: the people keeping the Esperanto dream alive.
Strawberries have this problem, too: Gassed Up: Tomato ripening rooms reveal the growing costs of the produce industry’s massive consolidation.
From Wally, and some of these are fantastic: 10 Biggest Lord of the Rings LEGO Sets, Ranked by Piece Count. This next includes two famous science fiction authors and a toaster: The Brave Little Toaster. An interesting read: Who Were the Sea Peoples? Exploring references in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
From David G., and it will never get old: Lawyer Reacts to the Insane Waterpark That Killed 6 People.
From Chris M., and it's an excellent read: We used to be able to buy things in this country: Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy.
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