"Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes"
I loved Yahoo Pipes, I used it for a number of things back in the day. One way I remember using it was for filtering on RSS feeds, I could use a feed as an input and have it filter out posts with specific keywords. I did it for avoiding spoilers on movies and shows as I recall.
It was very neat and robust, allowing for programming functionality without having to do a lot of the boring parts. Looking forward to diving into this write-up about it.
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President Biden on Sandra Day O'Connor's passing
I follow a feed of official statements by the President, here are his comments regarding America's first female Supreme Court Justice:
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was an American icon, the first woman on our Nation's highest Court. She spent her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic and in search of common ground. I did not agree with all of her opinions, but I admired her decency and unwavering devotion to the facts, to our country, to active citizenship and the common good.
Defined by her no-nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O'Connor overcame discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too often told women to seek work as secretaries, not attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought to avoid ideology and was devoted to the rule of law and to the bedrock American principle of an independent judiciary. Unrelenting in her interrogations of attorneys before the Court, she was willing to learn and to change, open to the experience of fellow Americans, and always conscious of the law's real impact on their lives.
As a U.S. Senator on the Judiciary Committee, I remember the hope surrounding her historic nomination to the Supreme Court. The Senate voted 99–0 in her favor, proof that our Nation can come together to move history forward.
Justice O'Connor never quit striving to make this Nation stronger, retiring only to care for her husband John, the love of her life. She never quit calling on us all to engage with our country and with one another, and her institute's work to promote civics education and civil discourse has touched millions. She knew that for democracy to work, we have to listen to each other and remember how much more we all have in common as Americans than what keeps us apart.
Our hearts today are with Justice O'Connor's three sons Scott, Brian, and Jay; her brother Alan; her six grandchildren; and all those who loved her.
The Coast Salish People Kept Wooly Dogs
Fascinating stuff! Love learning about this unique species native to my adopted home. Definitely read the full entry to know more. Here are two excerpts:
For thousands of years, Coast Salish people kept woolly dogs for their splendid coats, the wool of which could be woven into blankets and other items. Unfortunately, the dogs went extinct in the late 1800s and only one pelt, that of a dog named Mutton, exists. Today, an international team has released their cultural and genetic study of Mutton via a paper published in Science. (“The History of Coast Salish ‘Woolly Dogs’ Revealed by Ancient Genomics and Indigenous Knowledge” was embargoed until 2pm EST, which is why I had to wait to send out my newsletter.)
Teaming up with a diverse group of researchers, including First Nations and Tribal members whose ancestors had long kept woolly dogs, Lin began a genetic and cultural study of Mutton. Genetically similar to pre-contact dogs from Newfoundland and British Columbia, woolly dogs diverged from other breeds as long as 4,776 years ago, about the time they appear in the archeological record. Researchers also found 28 genes associated with hair growth and follicle regeneration. The various mutations are linked to “curly hair phenotypes in other dogs, rats, and mice [and] woolly hair and hereditary hair loss in humans.”
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