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Measure Twice, Kill Once: The BBC reports that the entire 1200-square-mile Dugway Proving Ground in Utah was placed on lockdown when it was discovered that a quarter-teaspoon-worth of VX nerve agent could not be accounted for. VX is the most lethal substance known to science, requiring only about 700 micrograms to kill a human being. No word on when tourists will be allowed in for photos and a picnic lunch.
Ars Technica recently reported that Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, is donating 200,000 master recordings dating from the 1920s through the 1940s to the Library of Congress. As with other media from the early 20th Century, many of the recordings are on deteriorating physical media, and the LoC will digitize and restore all the recordings. Eventually, all the digitized copies will be publicly available online.
This week’s New Yorker profiles the actor who plays “The Most Interesting Man In The World” in those Dos Equis commercials, Jonathan Goldsmith. If the profile is any indication, Goldsmith himself is actually the Second Most Interesting Man In The World. I am presently ranked #7, but Dick Cavett has to die sometime, right?
