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@macgenie happy new year—and what a feast!

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Please vote. We’re all depending on you.

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@schuth Looks delicious!

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I love this because it suggests the Eleventh Doctor’s “I speak baby” schtick is in fact sound parenting advice: Pretending to Understand What Babies Say Can Make Them Smarter

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Nick Montfort’s A Web Reply to the Post-Web Generation has me thinking about the place of networks like Microblog in the still uncertain future of computer-assisted art. Is the Web era really over, as he suggests? If so can it be revived?

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@vega It worked!

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A fun look at English pop songs written by native Swedish-speakers. I was already thinking about ABBA’s delightful, sometimes nonsensical lyrics while watching the Mamma Mia! sequel. Even if I don't agree with every word of the piece (people can definitely be multilingual).

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@ayjay This is a personal nightmare of mine. Good luck to you.

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@vega this is a great post, thank you for writing it. I think it would be useful alongside other more tutorial-like posts when introducing people to MB.

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Trying hard this morning to fight the pressure to work constantly. A trip to the Farmers’ Market and the great Jay’s International Foods seems to have done the trick for now.

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@jack Can’t miss what you never stopped using! 😏

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@avi oof, looks daunting

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@abouthalf 🤔

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@liz This is fantastic. I don’t think I could walk by without mentally playing it.

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Today I learned, thanks to Pierre Bayard, that in the French translation of Groundhog Day the nineteenth-century poetry Bill Murray learns to impress Andie MacDowell is in Italian rather than French. Amusingly Bayard doesn’t seem to realize this is a change from the original.

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@dancohen I love Hit Parade! I’ve thought about using the podcast scripts as example essays in comp courses. They’re all so tightly constructed, with a clear thesis and legitimate surprises built in.

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And if you're a big nerd like me I highly recommend Puzzled Pint if it's available in your city. Any other MB folk out there who do this already?

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Inevitable and foreseeable downside of Pokémon being the theme for the great Puzzled Pint event tomorrow: spouse is now going around the house singing the theme on loop.

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@grayareas Great, indeed!

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At the botanical garden and one thing is clear: there should be a neural net generator for day lily names.

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The rare joy of reading something you wrote 3 years ago and finding it to be not only not terrible but maybe, just maybe, usable in a current project.

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Dilemma: I don’t really care for the article very much, but I’m obsessed with the title, Gutenberg’s Revenge.

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P.S. Books aren’t “the oldest form of physical media.”

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@scott\\_bot Hi, Scott! Glad to see you here.

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@dancohen I can see this being a major boon for future historians. The Short Title Catalog for the internet.

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@TheDimPause I just tried this (and liked it) as well! I heard they mimic scotch-making methods as closely as they can. Including by having distilleries at the same latitudes.

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This XKCD comic perfectly explains why I voted by paper ballot yesterday.

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Great news! Public funding for humanities work is a pretty slam-dunk good-for-the-world thing, and I’m really grateful to everyone who continues to fight for it. NEH Announces $43.1 Million for 218 Humanities Projects Nationwide - neh.gov

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@dancohen Congrats!

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@ayjay all problems stem from the hyphen in the url

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@AngeloStavrow @eli 👍👍👍

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@eli Whoa! This looks super useful.

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@eli My wife and I have been wanting to plan a trip there for ages and this seals it.

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@PhoneBoy Somehow hitting reply I wound up replying to myself by mistake? Anyway, nice job! Flexible voting is what every state needs.

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@jrladd Nice! I wish more states would allow more flexible voting.

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It’s primary day in Missouri. (Michigan, Washington, and Kansas too, for those keeping track at home.) I know it’s storming, but get out there, friends.

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@alans Precisely. How could anyone be surprised by what this house looks like? Of course that’s what it looks like. 🤦‍♂️

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@cheri Ah, he’s just the best.

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I’ve enjoyed McMansion Hell for a long time, and today’s piece on Betsy DeVos’s summer mansion is the new canonical example.

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Finally getting around to updating my personal site to HTTPS. A good web hygiene thing I've put off for too long.

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(This message doubles as verification that my MB setup is still working!)

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This is a great starting point for anyone using color in dataviz (so, everyone in dataviz). https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorguide/ Definitely something I’ll be sharing with students. Thanks, @lisacrost!

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@alans Thanks for sharing this. There are several great historic Art Deco buildings here in St. Louis, but nothing quite like this.

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Reading this left me with my mouth agape. kottke.org

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> Did this unassuming small-town couple steal a $160 million Willem de Kooning painting?

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@alans Wow! What I would have given to attend an art deco high school.

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Made a couple new pals today.

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Aside from the horizontal text orientation (is this really like a scroll?), reminds me of early modern miniature books. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-green-wants-you-to-read-tiny-books/2018/08/02/3110b5bc-94e6-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

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Bokeh might be the missing piece to Python/Pandas dataviz that I’ve been waiting for. It’s amazing to me how I can just now be discovering a library that’s been around since 2013.

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> Visualizing Data with Bokeh and Pandas - Programming Historian programminghistorian.org

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