'Tis the season for "best of" lists…

…which we normally avoid, but…

Best Non-Fiction Books | Non-Fiction Best Sellers 2018

http://bit.ly/2Rr4W0s

And how, pray tell, did we think they did?

Turns Out Mitochondria Don't Work Like We Thought They Did

http://bit.ly/2Q6liyT

The mouse! The mouse!

21 Pictures That Prove Libraries Are The Last Magical Places On Earth

http://bit.ly/2Q6cUQ9

A little late but still fabulous

https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/nypl_blackfridayad.pdf

Maybe we should ask England to take us back

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers | Technology | The Guardian

In another exceptional move, parliament sent a serjeant at arms to his hotel with a final warning and a two-hour deadline to comply with its order.

Is it too late? I don't think it's too late. And just think how handy it would be to have a serjeant at arms of our very own.

Panic!

There is no football on my TV schedule today. OK, Monday night football, but I don't get Monday night football and anyway who cares about Tennessee or Houston, right? Real football, I mean, which does not happen again until Thursday (I don't know who's playing but by then I won't care).

This is bad.

A physics joke machine!

http://m.wolframalpha.com/

I guess I'll never have to figure out how Bitcoin works

The Great Cryptocurrency Scam

Whatever else one can say that cryptocurrency has accomplished, it has been one of the greatest destroyers of wealth in the financial history of mankind.

http://bit.ly/2RagZir