Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- Amid Covid, the Air Hazards of Gas Appliances Draw New Scrutiny. "Covid-19 has drawn new attention to indoor air pollution. Science has long considered gas appliances to be key culprits."
- Jack Kerouac: A new site devoted to the life of the Beat generation's most influential author.
- Running a full desktop environment on an Amazon Kindle. How to run a Linux desktop on a Kindle. It'd be OK if it had a 10" screen.
- Why You Don't Need Adobe Reader (And What to Use Instead). "Adobe Reader is bloated and slow. Here's why you don't need it and how to open PDF files without Adobe Reader."
- How Hackers Could Trick Unwitting Scientists Into Producing Dangerous Genes. "In a new letter to the editor pulled from the prestigious scientific journal Nature, a team of Israeli researchers pose a frankly wild-sounding question: could a computer hack result in a scientist being swindled into creating a piece of genetic code that’s harmful—or potentially toxic—rather than helpful?"
- How the huge displays at NASA's mission control worked. "You've seen the videos of old-school NASA mission-control from the 1960s, with those huge, wall-sized screens — which displayed bright lines showing the flight path of spacecraft, and flight data. How the heck did they do that? They didn't have wall-sized LCDs back then."
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