The (pāt’n) that matters

Clowns at the circus

• The LEGO lunar baseplate
  An icon, a canvas, the opening lines of a story to be written.
• Reading a tennis serve based on your opponent's tongue placement
  For serious.
• How trucker country music became a '70s fad
  This was fascinating. Plus, you're about to learn the saddest country music song ever.
• LEGO Minifigure Skin Colors: How Many Are There?
  Interesting that it was LEGO trying to be faithful to *fictional* characters that finally prompted them to represent skin tone realistically. Play imitating life imitating art.
• The Louvre puts its entire collection online
  Only 22 years after the Hermitage.
• The science behind why dolphins in Australia are delivering "gifts"
  I know they just miss the free food, but the idea of dolphins delivering me coral is immensely appealing.
• The Endless Present, or Why You’re Getting Disclaimers On The Muppets These Days
  "Now that everything remains accessible we interact with our cultural past differently. More accurately, we don’t necessarily even realise that it’s from the past at all."
• Music, Makers & Machines: A Brief History of Electronic Music
  Interesting deep dive from Google Arts & Culture.
• Digitally Reading 17th-Century Locked Letters
  The technology here kicks off James P. Hogan's 1977 Inherit the Stars. Sci-fi only has a 44 year lead, looks like.
• Zillow Listings for Earth
  "TINY heating problem. STUNNING VINTAGE TREES on fire. The humans also redid all the floors in asphalt, which is a choice."