Dear Lazyweb: are there any tricks to exclude base-64 encoded data from ag/grep/ripgrep? Random noise from character combinations, these aren't the files I'm looking for.

Agean masterpiece from 1500 BCE, hundreds of years before the bronze age collapse, just wow: magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/…

When the master copy of your book is OCR

Boston, November 1st 1919: Boston police with raided communist materials, collected in the Palmer Raids of the First Red Scare:

Audiobook narrator reading out "the 2000s" as "the oh ohs" — that's really a thing? As if our millennials didn't have enough to deal with.

Glad to hear it! Orhun Aydin and I are on the R team if you have any questions

Something my team built that I'm stoked to see come to life for our users.

We know a doctor in Boston who is symptomatic, but unable to be tested based on current testing criteria. Fixing our testing infrastructure can't happen soon enough.

NPR podcast on handling the coronavirus with kids has a luxury jewelry consignment sponsor. Bizzaro world till the sponsor contracts expire.

Latest case trajectories for major countries: • US confirmed case count rises above the rest • Look at all those countries clustered around "doubling every 3 days". Governments must act now to get off that path. • Read about flattening the curve: ft.com/content/e015e0…

All kinds of amazing data visualization and mapping work going on to help make COVID-19 understandable to all, thank you to the designers, cartographers, data scrapers and everyone in-between to make this happen. Then there's this map for MA: boston.com/news/local-new…

If you love the truth, you will never have a relationship with it

Spot on: "There is something quintessentially Trumpian about the claim of total authority and zero responsibility. He alone can save us, he insists, but don’t blame him if he doesn’t." mailchi.mp/thebulwark/max…

A few months back, I started to write about training to run a sub 2:30 marathon in my 40s. But then it took me elsewhere—to a much deeper understanding of my roots and of why we have limits to begin with. wired.com/story/marathon…

I am pleased to announce Blue Earth Bathymetry, an edited GeoTIFF DEM for small-scale seafloor mapping. Worldwide coverage. 21,600 x 10,800. Public domain. Learn more about it here: shadedrelief.com/blue-earth/

“Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” — John Lewis

Goodbye old friend

Marie Tharp and the most iconic map in the physical sciences: sciencenews.org/article/marie-…

Ray was one of those people who did the work that needed doing and never asked for anything back. Rest in peace, you will be missed.