Yes, Virginia, There Is Still A Goddamn Global Pandemic: “We’re not sitting in the dark, aroused by our own isolation. It’s just, we remember Jurassic Park. There were just dinosaurs eating people like, ten minutes ago. We’re not so eager to re-open the park just because you say it’s safe.”
Links
Stuff I find around the web that interests or amuses me.
How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine: “Inside this facility in Chesterfield, Missouri, trillions of bacteria are producing tiny loops of DNA containing coronavirus genes — the raw material for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.”
Quotebacks – Quote the web: “Quotebacks makes it easy to reference content and create dialogue with other sites by turning snippets of text into elegant, self-contained blockquote components.”
sfadb : Philip K Dick Award: The PKD Award page at the SFADB, or Science Fiction Award Database, a reference site I just found. Linking to the PKD page because the CSS on the SFADB home page isn’t loading for me right now.
Markdown Service Tools: “The Markdown Service Tools are a collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text that much easier.”
Typetrigger relaunched today! I only used it a few times when it first appeared, but with things like microblogvember and reading T.R. Darling‘s Quiet Pine Trees encouraging a love of microfiction, maybe I’ll participate more now. Find me here!
Strongsync: The most powerful Sync client for macOS Big Sur: On-demand sync for Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and Sharepoint managed by APFS and Spotlight search inside every app on your Mac.
MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS: An email tracker, read receipt and spy pixel blocker plugin for macOS Apple Mail.
TT2020: TT2020 is an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade!
We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy: “Imagine a sci-fi movie featuring a scary new virus. You would probably picture people protecting themselves with space suits and respirators. Who would have thought that the key to fighting this novel coronavirus would be as simple as fresh air? Only everyone 100 years ago.”