Monday Links from the Fens vol. CCCXXXIII

[WTFH]

A Look Inside Florence's Strangest Archive

Is that safe to click on, or is it more videos of her threesome with Zebedee and Dougal?

[NickFitz]

Good luck with the new contract. Is it in the Science Park again?

No, it's out in the fens about twelve miles from Cambridge. I'm chancing the A14 commute for now, but I suspect it won't be long before I decide I can't be doing with that any more and stay in Cambridge instead

[OwlHoot]

Busy start at NewClientCo; just got time to post these

Good luck with the new contract. Is it in the Science Park again?

[*]Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves - "Over a million people are buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island. A New York Times investigation uncovers some of their stories and the failings of the system that put them there." How NYC disposes of its poor, or those who are unclaimed by anybody, when they die. (Remember, if you’ve used your monthly limit of NYT articles, you can just open a porn Private Browsing window, or whatever it’s called on your browser, and bypass the checks.)

I'm amazed they don't have a state crematorium for unclaimed bodies. That island would be very valuable real estate (besides, I suppose, the fact that loads of people have already been buried there for decades and it would be expensive to relocate them or otherwise "reclaim the land").

[SimonMac]

The NYC mass grave link is more interesting in how people get there rather than the place itself, which I imagine is creepy as ****

[NickFitz]

Busy start at NewClientCo; just got time to post these

• Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves - "Over a million people are buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island. A New York Times investigation uncovers some of their stories and the failings of the system that put them there." How NYC disposes of its poor, or those who are unclaimed by anybody, when they die. (Remember, if you’ve used your monthly limit of NYT articles, you can just open a porn Private Browsing window, or whatever it’s called on your browser, and bypass the checks.)
  
  
• The World’s Smallest Ukulele - "It’s playing for the mere millionaires being humiliated by billionaires in paradise." Nobody seems to have much sympathy for the wealthy people in an exclusive Hawaii resort who are having their privileges restricted by even wealthier people
  
  
• The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors - "Today, every color imaginable is at your fingertips… rewind to a few centuries ago and finding that one specific color might have meant trekking to a single mineral deposit in remote Afghanistan.” Hence the Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard.
  
  
• Until I was a man, I had no idea how good men had it at work - Thomas Page McBee on how his treatment by others has changed since starting testosterone: ”The first time I spoke up in a meeting in my newly low, quiet voice and noticed that sudden, focused attention, I was so uncomfortable that I found myself unable to finish my sentence… But the room stayed quiet along with me. It was the order of things: everyone in the room waited, men and women alike, for me to open my mouth.”
  
  
• Wild Safari Live - HT to WTFH for this one, which allows you to watch live video streams from South African game reserves, or catch up with videos of what’s been happening if they aren’t out and about when you look in.
  
  
• Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable - "The great variety of aging styles among plants and animals suggests it can be controlled." So sort it out already, I’m running out of time here
  
  
• A Look Inside Florence's Strangest Archive - "For six centuries, the Corsini Family has recorded everything that's ever happened to them." It’s like TPD but on paper and with Florentine merchants
  
  
• Trouble at mill! - Dodgy dealings in Anglo-Saxon Rochester: ”Though the details of the scandal are tantalising sparse, I think you should nevertheless know what waywardness took place in the monastery of Rochester at the beginning of the twelfth-century... just in case it may help you in your journey through life.”
  
  
• Rafting Ants Have Designated Stations - ”Sometimes at the climax of a Star Trek episode, the captain would yell out “Battle stations!” and send the crew scurrying frantically through the corridors… Certain ants respond to a crisis by binding their bodies together into floating rafts. And like the Star Trek crew, they seem to have designated posts.” More ant coolness.
  
  
• Studio 54 In The 1970s: Wonderful Photos Of Famous Faces Dancing At New York’s Killer Nightclub - This is what constituted the Beautiful People of New York City nightlife in the 1970s. I include this photo of literary agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar solely so I can mention that he bought an option to the film rights of one of my father’s novels in 1978 and therefore clearly had better taste, at least in literary terms, than the other people in these photos
  
  
  

Happy invoicing!