Cool Stuff Ride Home

Fri. 02/18 - Did the Index Destroy How We Read? Will eBooks?


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How a medieval hatred of indexes mirrors debates today about how search engines are changing our brains. Plus, a round-up of the unceasing Wordle news and spin-offs. A thousand Porsches are on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. And how about a caffeinated doughnut with your space-themed Coca-Cola?

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    How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading (Literary Hub)
  • Students Today Can't Prepare Bark to Calculate Their Problems (Quote Investigator)
  • Wordle Has Ad Trackers Now That the New York Times Owns It (Gizmodo)
  • The New York Times has changed Wordle's solutions (The Verge)
  • Extra credit: You can play Wordle in other languages! (Duo Lingo)
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  • Lordle of the Rings
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  • 1,000 Porsches are burning aboard this abandoned cargo ship (The Verge)
  • Ship Carrying 1,100 Porsches and Other Luxury Cars Is Burning and Adrift (NY Times)
  • Just one last job... (Evan Simko-Bednarski, Twitter)
  • Cargo Ship Full of Porsches, Bentleys and VWs Is On Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic [UPDATED] (The Drive)
  • Coca-Cola introduces a first-of-its-kind flavor (CNN)
  • Snack maker Hostess unveils caffeinated doughnuts as market for caffeine-spiked food heats up (Washington Post)
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  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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