The Body’s Most Embarrassing Evolutionary Marvel: “To peer into the soul of a sea cucumber, don’t look to its face; it doesn’t have one. Gently turn that blobby body around, and gaze deep into its marvelous, multifunctional anus.”
Links
Stuff I find around the web that interests or amuses me.
Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing: “Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.”
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.”
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.