do not comply in advance: many news organisations are refusing to sign on to new US department of war rules to report on only officially vetted items
haibao: a look back at the 2010 Shanghai world Expo plus a menagerie of other mascots
touched by an angle: more biblically accurate heavenly hosts—see also here and here
the lighthouse, the prioritiser and the flashlight: dozens of strategies for safeguarding one’s attention in an exhausting environment—via MetaFilter
xeno canto: a geocaching tutorial for birdsong—from a revamped Maps Mania
zoomorphic stereotypes: the 1806 human-animal hybrid caricatures of Charles Le Brun
sos: Save our Signs project aims to preserve ten thousand placards in US national parks threatened with deletion for telling uncomfortable truths of the past for present and future generations