What I saw on the web on 2022.5.17

[reblogarythm]

1. A number NOBODY has thought of
   by Tony Padilla talking with Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZrxkix9Mk
   in case you want your own number that no one else will ever use
   via rss
   
   
2. B.C. company reports no survivors found in refuge chamber after Burkina Faso mine flood
   by The Canadian Press
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trevali-mine-no-survivors-1.6456744
   perhaps the sad end to this story?
   via rss
   
   
3. the tale of the Icelandic Fish Festival
   by Séamas O'Reilly
   https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1526578493630435330
   boy those Icelanders LOVE their fish
   via Ada_Palmer
   
   
4. "When my generation was growing up, being good at school was pretty much the worst thing that you could be (particularly if you didn’t have the social skills to hide it)."
   by Jim McDermott
   https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/684526818614804480/when-my-generation-was-growing-up-being-good-at
   quoted for truth
   via rss
   
   
5. The new ‘Star Trek’ has moments better than my best homilies
   by Jim McDermott
   https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2022/05/06/star-trek-picard-will-wheaton-242951
   source for above quote
   via previous link