The Star Wars Holiday Special is more important to canon than ever | Polygon | https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/500987/star-wars-holiday-special-skeleton-crew

SteamOS moving from Steam Deck to more handhelds gives me hope for better anti-cheat compatibility | GamingOnLinuxhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steamos-moving-from-steam-deck-to-more-handhelds-gives-me-hope-for-better-anti-cheat-compatibility/

Can You Eat Turkey Eggs?https://www.thespruceeats.com/can-you-eat-turkey-eggs-5081613#:~:text=Why%20Don't%20We%20Eat,up%20to%20%2436%20per%20dozen.

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV – ABC Newshttps://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361

The Untold Story of the Vegetable Peeler That Changed the Worldhttps://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-untold-story-of-the-vegetable-peeler-that-changed-the-world

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanstothers/are-these-christmas-movies-poll

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts – The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather-forecast.html

Jeopardy!: The spinoff is finally here. It might make you question your faith in humanity.https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/jeopardy-final-pop-culture-colin-jost-prime-video.html

This is wild – There is a non-zero chance the insurance industry will collapse by 2040.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prosperity-or-catastrophe-insurance2040-study-reveals-four-possible-futures-for-the-industry-302304272.html

Sorry, I got a little busy with Thanksgiving and things lately! I'll try to get better at using this. 🙂 https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-new-president

63-year-old man arrested in U.K. cheese heist : NPRhttps://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168356/cheddar-cheese-stolen-neals-yard-dairy

Dozens of monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolinahttps://www.wral.com/story/dozens-of-monkeys-escape-from-research-facility-in-south-carolina/21711665/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/04/guardian-sports-writers-and-arts-critics-swap-jobs-for-one-day

All About Wonders of Wildlife's Octavia the Octopus and Keeper Jared Belt | 417 Magazinehttps://www.417mag.com/lifestyle/life/octopus-keeper-jared-belt-wonders-of-wildlife/

US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines – Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/us-copyright-office-frees-the-mcflurry-allowing-repair-of-ice-cream-machines/

Who Invented The ‘Bedsheet Ghost’?https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-invented-the-bedsheet-ghost/

Seven new frog species discovered in Madagascar: Sounds like something from Star Trek | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241015141512.htm

Star Trek's Holodeck recreated using ChatGPT and video game assets | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240411130301.htm

Sorry for the shortfall, I'm traveling this week and not reading a lot of news on my laptop. 🙂 Here, have a picture of the Very Large Array!

Guitar Hero but with a TROMBONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUFR8_Fuf0&t=659s

This month's ASF newsletter, Plus One, is up! https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/asf-plus-one-newsletter-march-2025

Among a population that probably does most of its learning by reading, Gnome and GNU pronunciation are a kind of open source community shibboleth. Alternately… are we getting to the point where saying guh-nome and guh-new just indicate your age? (And then there's MATE and LaTeX…)

Let me share with you my favorite poem. It's so easy to memorize, you may already know it and recite it each day. Coffee. Coffee coffee. Mmmmm coffee. Coffee.

TIL 1, Spencer's owns Spirit Halloween, and 2, there are more Spencer's now than when you were in high school. (Probably. Making some assumptions about the average age of my follower friends here.) https://thehustle.co/originals/how-the-weirdest-store-at-the-mall-survived-the-retail-apocalypse. https://thehustle.co/originals/how-the-weirdest-store-at-the-mall-survived-the-retail-apocalypse#:~:text=One%20reason%20why%20Spencer's%20and,killer%20that%20does%20the%20same

Tell me something interesting.

Just realized I'll never again play JoAnn's Roulette, the name I invented for the game where you think you're using a 50% off coupon on something (which at JoAnn's markup made it a reasonable price), only to discover at the register it's on an unmarked sale for 20%, so you can't use the coupon.

Tomorrow I'm talking at my kid's Academy of Creative Design meeting about branding. Lots of fun examples of successes and failures. In 2011, Coke released white cans with polar bears on them for their $3 million pledge to their campaign to conserve polar bear habitat in the Arctic. 🧵

Favorite (less pricey) Flipbelt dupe? Not sure I want the kind with a buckle since I need to minimize bulk, but also the ones that just have a fold and no zipper concern me that they won't hold things in well.

We've been binging Severance, so my headcanon about tonight's incredibly slow Hurricanes-Flames game is that NHL players are severed, and their outies got woken up on the ice very confused.

Conveniently, I just got a ZipRecruiter ad that answers the question for you! 🧵 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

If you download the UNESCO World Heritage app, you can track the sites you've visited and ones on your wish list. I think this one wins for most interesting name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump

Might have to try this some time… https://www.seriouseats.com/clean-cooking-oil-with-gelatin-technique

Reminder that this Friday is planetary parade time! https://starwalk.space/en/news/what-is-planet-parade https://www.space.com/stargazing/planetary-parade-february-2025-when-where-and-how-to-see-it

Google tells me there are 7,063 diners in the US. There have been 534 episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. At about 3 restaurants per episode, after 18 years, we're barely 20% of the way into only the first 1/3 of this show's premise.

Happy anniversary, Make:! Can't believe that first issue was 20 years ago. (I'd tag you, but you don't seem to have come over to Bsky yet… come on in, the water's fine!) https://geekmom.com/2025/02/happy-20th-make/

It has again been 0️⃣ days since I had "The Wellerman" stuck in my head. Thanks to one of my students' choreography choice, this has been my status all week.

Are you at #FOSDEM and we haven't said hello yet? Let's fix that!

Words that are hard to spell: sacrilegious, because your brain thinks it probably should be related to "religious," and the i and e look backwards. But they're etymologically unrelated. minuscule, because your brain thinks "it's mini!" fuchsia, because what the heck even

Given the week's news, I got nostalgic last night and made a thing. If you also have fond memories of this little piece of paper, have an SVG. Do something fun with it.

https://www.boston.com/news/business/2025/01/14/after-more-than-50-years-boston-areas-only-typewriter-store-will-close-in-march/