Bird Dog has gone fishing for the week. His Raja Isteri figured his audience would bridle at seven full days without a little touch of Bird Dog in the night, so she kindly sent me a picture of him up to his old angling tricks. Bird Dog isn't much of a fisherman, truth be told. Just between you and me, he jacklights great whites. He even tried a salt lick once, but it didn't work all that well. I'm not sure why. Anyway, as you can see, Bird Dog is just another square old man who wears his shoes when he goes swimming.
On to the links!
You can now pay money to buy a smart salt shaker that you can control with your smartphone or an Amazon Echo.
Little-known fact: P. T. Barnum was actually a stoic who downplayed his opinions for public consumption
After a restoration process that took more than two years, the USS Constitution – first launched in 1797 and the oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat – was eased back into Boston Harbor on Sunday night.
Little-known fact: Bad writers use dashes and parentheses instead of commas. Really bad writers use them in headlines
25,000 chimneys will offset Global Warming
The invention suggests employing a super tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere as a remedy to Global Warming. Calculations show that if we can construct a chimney 5 kilometers (3 mile) tall and 20 meters in diameter out of flexible fabric material. Such Chimney will be sturdy enough to stand upright and withstand side winds. We will need as many 25,000 of such chimneys to stop global warming.
Little-known fact: The best jokes are unintentional
European Union Debt by Country (2005-2016)
Debt as Percent of GDP
Greece: 179 percent of GDP
Estonia: 9.5 percent of GDP
Little-known fact: Anything about acting Estonian by Greeks
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
It had been a hectic news day. In one of the shrillest moments in
America’s infamous anti-communism “red scare,” husband and wife Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit
espionage.
Apparently little-known fact to some people: The USSR is no longer operative. We've read their files. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty, guilty, guilty
Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
Little-known fact: An iPhone isn't a magic device that nulls out all existing laws. Very little known, apparently. Not for long
Robots are replacing managers, too
The report suggests new types of leadership will emerge. Rather than aiming to become a professional manager (“to take expert bricklayers, so to speak, and make them managers of other bricklayers”), top talent would shift to contribute directly to a company’s service or product and communicate directly with each other rather than through managers (they should be”guilds of bricklayers”).
Little-known fact: You can hire bad writers who shotgun quotation marks and parentheses into everything to pretend to be impartially reporting on a newsworthy trend just to get a link back to the company that hired them, because the FTC isn't paying attention to the internet. Yet
Beneath the glow of stock-market records, darkly bearish trends are lurking
Little-known fact: All the good news is bad now
Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
Little-known fact: There's no way this guy is a conservative. There are no conservatives at Google
The Best Path to Long-Term Change Is Slow, Simple and Boring
Little-known fact: The road to total enlightenment is long and arduous. Bring a a bag lunch and a change of undershorts
It’s Time to Design Emotionally Intelligent Machines
Little-known fact: My parents produced an emotionally intelligent machine using nothing but a bottle of Mateus, a Bobby Darin record, and some private school tuition
What is more beneficial in all aspects of life; a high EQ or IQ?
There is no such thing as EQ. Let me repeat that: "There is NO SUCH THING AS EQ." The idea was popularized by a journalist, Daniel Goleman, not a psychologist. You can't just invent a trait. You have to define it and measure it and distinguish it from other traits and use it to predict the important ways that people vary.
Little-known fact: You can't mention this at Google, either
Have a great Monday, everyone. If you can manage it, you should go fishin'.
