A mini documentary on a transitional boys’ choir for boy choir members aging out because of puberty in Sweden. From the New Yorker and via Kottke. Wish they had a place like this for all teenagers!
N.Y.C. Rats: They’re in the Park, on Your Block and Even at Your Table
There have been 15 cases this year — the most since at least 2006 — of leptospirosis, which can cause serious liver and kidney damage and, in the city, typically spreads via rat urine. New York’s most recent anti-rat initiative, a $32 million program i…
Once upon a time the plural of ‘wizard’ was ‘war’
The official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the only state-appointed wizard in the world, has been cast from the public payroll, spelling the end to a 23-year legacy.
Post title from Terry Pratchett, of course.
Please Don’t Stop the Music
Music Expands by byzantiumbooks (cc by)Algorithms are great *but* don’t go to any guilty pleasures or allow any other person to use your account, unless you want those choices feeding into it. I don’t know a way to come back from the pollution of one’s…