July 31, 2022
Bridget has a Taste for Trucks
Carte Blanch: What the Truck Bridget is a great favourite in my neighbourhood. Despite the fact that she regularly disrupts traffic, people always take her side against the trucks. [more inside]
Nichelle Nichols lifted a generation of women into space
Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek series and in six movies, has died at the age of 89. After her work as one of the first non-stereotypical Black women to star in a network television show (a role that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. implored her to stay in), Nichols set out to "help recruit women and people of color into the space race." Additionally, Nichols was a darling of the convention scene, embracing her status as a beloved role model.
"Journeys end in lovers meeting; every wise man's son doth know."
Who would Lady Macbeth most like to spend an afternoon with? Juliet? Mercutio? Kate? What is Ophelia looking for in a lover, or a companion? Pair some of Shakespeare's characters off in We Are Not All Alone Unhappy, a Twine game by Cat Manning. For further reading, here's an explanation of the project.
The theme song that goes harder than it has any business going.
The Thomas the Tank Engine Theme Is Unironically Really Good.
"It's almost like the sound of somebody slipping on a banana peel."
Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure (SL Salon) [more inside]
“none are really about history, they're always a fight over the present”
Battling History is a series of five long articles in Coda Story about contentious areas of history in Europe. Isobel Cockerell writes about Nazi labor camps in Alderney, one of the British Channel Islands, and Spain’s vast tomb to fascist dictator Francisco Franco. Daiva Repečkaitė writes about struggles between Lithuania and Belarus over a shared medieval history. Caitlin Thompson writes about unsolved murders and unexamined atrocities in Northern Ireland. Katia Patin writes about resistance to official Polish narratives surrounding the Nazi occupation.
Energy transition's age of abundance: No one will fight wars over solar
After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance [ungated] - "My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes." [more inside]
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