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A collection of free books from Springer

To help support everyone during Covid-19, Springer has released a ton of free textbooks. This is great, but their web page for this is not super friendly, and expects you to download some Excel sheet to figure out what they have on offer. This web page hopes to make it easier to access all this knawledge [sic].

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posted by zengargoyle at 5:30 PM PST - 45 comments

After 25 years, your wait for a playable version of Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from The Simpsons is finally over.
posted by killdevil at 5:25 PM PST - 14 comments

NPR Music brings us A Not-At-All Exhaustive LGBTQIA+ Country Playlist. You can stream the playlist at YouTube or Spotify. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 4:03 PM PST - 17 comments

“Trolley — New Orleans” is all about division. Two rows of windows, each window a frame. NYT [more inside]
posted by blue shadows at 2:44 PM PST - 6 comments

Randy writes and performs satirical showtunes lampooning political figures. Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar. A Spoonful of Clorox. The Bunker Boy.
posted by adept256 at 1:24 PM PST - 21 comments

Duck wearing a bow tie walks into pub, downs pint, fights dog.
posted by Evilspork at 12:41 PM PST - 22 comments

30 Years of Philly Ballroom documentary and Philadelphia Inquirer feature article. In the article, legendary voguer Madelyn recalls being schooled by "Mother Hands" Dee Dee who sat down in a chair near the judges, crossed one leg over the other, and battled Madelyn with one hand: "She ate me to smithereens, I'd never seen somebody make so many shapes and movements and in one hand ever in my life. I was more in awe than I was devastated.”
posted by spamandkimchi at 10:09 AM PST - 7 comments

Drive and Listen is a mashup of YouTube city driving videos with the same city's local radio stations. Pick a location, sit back and relax.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 7:11 AM PST - 28 comments