What I saw on the web on 2023.9.23

1. Hobbit Day Reading 2023
   by Corey Olsen
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEtZnt4dBJI
   a well-selected passage!
   via youtube recommends
   
   
2. Tales Of The Shire Is A Cozy Lord Of The Rings Game Coming Next Year
   by Wesley LeBlanc
   https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/09/22/tales-of-the-shire-is-a-cozy-lord-of-the-rings-game-coming-next-year
   as someone who's basically not a gamer, this nonetheless looks . . . cozy
   via discord
   
   
3. Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math
   by Jordana Cepelewicz
   https://www.quantamagazine.org/behold-modular-forms-the-fifth-fundamental-operation-of-math-20230921/
   a nice intiutive introduction to modular forms
   via subsequent link
   
   
4. The Moduli Space of Acute Triangles
   by John Carlos Baez
   https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/09/23/the-moduli-space-of-acute-triangles/
   what a nice moduli space!
   via rss
   
   
5. Religious authorities establish new rules for lab-grown Kosher or Halal meat
   by Thom Dunn
   https://boingboing.net/2023/09/23/religious-authorities-establish-new-rules-for-lab-grown-kosher-or-halal-meat.html
   given the premise, these rules make sense
   via rss
   
   
6. consequences of "an effectively immortal fungal network that can brain-control vertebrates"
   by Charlie Stross
   http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/09/pushing-it-back.html#comment-2177037
   could make for some fun stories?
   via checking in on his comments on his blogpost
   
   
7. Why We Love Middle-earth
   by Shawn Marchese, Shawn E. Marchese, Alan Sisto
   https://mango.bz/books/why-we-love-middle-earth-2709-b
   might be a fun read, although i suspect i already know a lot of what it says
   via googlery after a mention in that video i linked yesterday
   
   
8. Is THIS the MOST FAMOUS BASS BREAK In Popular Music?
   by pdbass
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usvgu5EN1NI
   it's a great break, yes
   via youtube recommends
   
   
9. Flowchart for picking your STEM major
   by Ben Orlin
   https://twitter.com/benorlin/status/1435638786172637187
   works fo rme
   via discord
   
   
10. 9 Albertans infected with West Nile virus, AHS says
    by CBC News
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-calgary-edmonton-west-nile-health-1.6976649
    do not want
    via rss