Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* IPFS, a decentralized change-capturing method for storing and serving Web sites. (Courtesy: Hacker News)

* KJU‘s haircut is referred to as a disconnect. (Courtesy: NYT)

* The use of Buddhist hand gestures in Christian art. (Courtesy: Sotheby’s)

* Bloomberg Terminals run on 25mm lines of Fortran. (Courtesy: Coding the Markets)

* Roy Jones, Jr. is a Russian citizen. (Courtesy: NYT)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Alexandria, VA, has the longest running farmers’ market in the country. (Courtesy: Southern Living)

* The personal- and tactical-level experience of Stalin’s Soviet Union. (Courtesy: Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers)

* Clothes dryer’s thermal fuse (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* Fifty-six British gin distilleries opened during the past two years. (Courtesy: Economist)