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"Given the extreme effort that went into creating books, scribes and book owners had a real incentive to protect their work. They used the only power they had: words. At the beginning or the end of books, scribes and book owners would write dramatic curses threatening thieves with pain and suffering if they were to steal or damage these treasures."

"Millimeter-thin wirelessly rechargeable fiber batteries can be woven into clothing to help serve as the hub for a wearable network of electronics, a new study finds."
2021 follow-up to this 2018 article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/yarnlike-rechargeable-zinc-battery-could-power-smart-clothes-and-wearables I wonder if it's turned out to be workable, unworkable, or still being developed?

Cool idea for identifying (or rather confirming) unused css: put a unique background image on it and wait to see if it gets any hits.
via https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2018/01/linkbait_35.html

"500 Years of Science, Reason & Critical Thinking via the medium of gross over simplification, dodgy demarcation, glaring omission and a very tiny font."

"in recent decades the presence of major life-taking famines has diminished significantly and abruptly as compared to earlier eras. This is not in anyway to underplay the very real risk facing the roughly 80 million people currently living in a state of crisis-level food insecurity and therefore requiring urgent action. Nevertheless, the parts of the world that continue to be at risk of famine represent a much more limited geographic area than in previous eras, and those famines that have occurred recently have typically been far less deadly"

"New favourite example of reduplication: Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons. "

"There’s a book out there that’s either one of the last great unsolved cyphers or a massive medieval hoax. Welcome to the weird world of the Voynich Manuscript. And no, it isn’t solved yet."
- Short comic strip by Andy Warner

"This research exposes how much data Google is collecting about consumers and their most personal habits across all of its products."

"After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service."