How much is an album worth in 2020: $3.49? $77? $1,000? Maybe $0 - Jon Caramanica/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/music/albums-price.html

I just started a shell account in the tildeverse - and you should, too https://tildeverse.org/

Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety - Clare Wilson/New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and-meditation-can-worsen-depression-and-anxiety/

The case of the top secret iPod - David Shayer/TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/

Graphical Linear Algebra https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/

KubeSail | Build your own cloud https://kubesail.com/

8 ways to deploy a React app for free - Ashutosh Singh/LogRocket Blog https://blog.logrocket.com/8-ways-to-deploy-a-react-app-for-free/

We tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok clone. What a dud. - Brian X. Chen and Taylor Lorenz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html

Forecasting the US 2020 elections | The Economist https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president

We're at that point in the election cycle where it's looking pretty bad for President Trump, but it's not a sure thing that he will lose in November. My gut says he will lose in a landslide, but the whole COVID-USPS nexus of issues adds a degree of uncertainty that throws the election into "anything can happen" territory. A pronounced lack of enthusiasm for Biden, boiling down to "he's not Trump," makes things even harder to predict.

How the Go-Go's found their beat: An oral history | Keaton Bell/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/go-gos-40th-anniversary-beauty-and-the-beat-oral-history-belinda-carlisle

Uber may shut down temporarily in California https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html

Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

Joan Feynman, 1927-2020, astrophysicist known for her discovery of the origin of auroras https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/feynman.cfm

What is MasterClass actually selling? - Carina Chocano/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/what-is-masterclass-actually-selling/614200/

Classic Google Sites is going away — migrate to new Google Sites by December 2021 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9958187

The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth - Sarah Jeong/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/21355465/tiktok-us-china-information-nationalism-aonline-propaganda

N O D E Zine https://n-o-d-e.net/index.html

Crunchbangplusplus | Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro https://crunchbangplusplus.org/oldindex.html

WordPress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools – Romain Dillet/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/wordpress-com-launches-new-p2-to-take-on-internal-communication-tools/

Georgia school reopening photo worse than it appears - Molly Hensley-Clancy and Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-school-reopening-photo-paulding-county

How the 2020 pandemic is a replay of 1918 - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2020/08/04.html#a163817

My Vim "style" includes doing things with the mouse, so I use gVim much of the time

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2e in Unofficial Texinfo Format (tl;dr looks great) http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/

The coronavirus is never going away - Sarah Zhang/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/

Why should you learn Vim in 2020? - Nikola Đuza/Pragmatic Pineapple 🍍 https://pragmaticpineapple.com/why-should-you-learn-vim-in-2020/

27-inch iMac gets a major update - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

Meet The 19th*, a new gender and politics news organization by women and for women – Tom Jones/Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/meet-the-19th-a-new-gender-and-politics-news-organization-by-women-and-for-women/

Some YouTubers are selling subscriptions to their channels — and make big money doing it - Lucas Shaw and Mark Bergen/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/youtube-influencers-charge-for-subscriptions-after-coronavirus-hits-ads

How link-begging became the most annoying search engine tactic - Ernie Smith/Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889d8b/how-link-begging-became-the-most-annoying-search-engine-tactic

Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A all at once - Dieter Bohn/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352032/google-pixel-5-4a-5g-price-release-date-specs

One-Third of New York's small businesses may be gone forever - Matthew Haag/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-small-businesses-closing-coronavirus.html

C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-weighs-in-on-distributed-systems-type-safety-and-rust/

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org/

GITenberg is a collaborative, open-source community dedicated to publishing ebooks in the public domain https://www.gitenberg.org/

Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US - Kate Cox/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktok-after-trump-ultimatum/

I was looking at Emilio Pujol's guitar method and was intrigued by his variations on an exercise by Aguado, so I decided to write about it. I'm doing it as a CC-licensed project on GitHub. https://github.com/passthejoe/pujol_variations_on_aguado

Perl 7 is coming, and it's more like Perl 5 than Perl 6 - Sawyer X/nntp.perl.org https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257565.html

Deleting older Linux kernel images in Debian and Ubuntu - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-delete-old-kernel-images-command/