Featured Links - January 30, 2023

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

CJ relaxing on Saturday night

• The Mystery of the Dune Font. "Putting a name to the typeface that defined the visual identity of the science fiction series and its author, Frank Herbert"
• Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us. "I’m 28 and one of many disabled from the pandemic. We need a public health plan for this." Even if you're not into typography, it's worth looking at for the many illustrations and cover scans.
• The Specter of 2016: McGonigal, Trump, and the Truth about America. "We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves."
• Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London may sell for £7m. "Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Swiss sculptor."
• PSA: Don’t make the same mistake I did of fully relying on Chrome’s Tab Groups just yet. "Saving groups for later is "broken", despite the presence of a save button."
• Dutch meteorologists say Musk's Starlink network disrupts weather forecasting. "Meteorologists are very concerned about the rate at which Elon Musk is expanding his Starlink satellite network. The rapidly expanding network, with new users every day, is disrupting satellite measurements that are indispensable for accurate weather forecasts, Ad Stoffelen of the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI told NU.nl."
• Dancing on the World’s Thin Crust: On the MIT Press’s Radium Age Series. More books in the MIT Press's wonderful series of reprints of early 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.
• The Champlain Sea. "Canada is known for many large bodies of water. Great Slave Lake, Lake Winnipeg and, of course, the Great Lakes. There was one lake though, that was so large, it was called a sea. While portions of it still exists, the sea itself is long gone. That sea shaped Canada, long before any cities appeared on the landscape."