Friday, January 28, 2022

Weekend Links 1-28-22

 We're bracing for more winter weather here where I live. Between the weather and the continuing lockout of Major League Baseball it seems like spring will never arrive. We must not lose hope. Better days are ahead. In the meantime, here are a few items of interest for your weekend reading. 

One thing the South is known for is barbecue. One group is trying to assemble the oral histories of pitmasters before it is too late.

A popular pastime in England is to be a detectorist. You never know what treasures you will uncover.

Cold case solved? A team of historians believe they have figured out who betrayed Anne Frank's family to the Nazis during World War II.

While we are on the subject of World War II, check out some of the ingenious methods used by British Intelligence to help prisoners of war escape. 

Confessions of a Scrabble enthusiast.

More word games: why Wordle went viral.  I confess that I am hooked. Related: the creator shares the secrets of the online sensation.

Before there was the internet, there  was Zoom, the first viral kid's TV show. Hard to believe that it has been 50 years since it first went on  the air. 

I confess that I am a practioner of Tsundoku.

If you did need to cull your library, here are some helpful tips.


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