👓 This simple tipping trick could save you over $400 a year | CNBC

Read One tipping trick could save you over $400 a year by Zack Guzman (CNBC)
Changing this one thing about the way you pay can save you money without being unfair to servers.
Clickbait for cheap people. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest not tipping at all in the states where employers provide minimum wage to cover missed tips…
Watched W1A (Season 1, Episodes 1-4) from BBC | Netflix
Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes
Quirky characters and biting satire. Sadly I’m probably missing a lot of the “in” jokes, though I did pick up what looked like Alan Yentob arm wrestling Salman Rushdie in a short cameo appearance. A lot of the comedy revolves around the premise of people who are paid professionally to be communicators are some of the absolute worst communicators on the planet.

👓 Twitter’s Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 | Reuters

Read Twitter's Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 (Reuters)
Twitter Inc said on Monday it paid its Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey $1.40...
Surely I won’t be the first to have said it, but a penny per character in a tweet almost seems fitting if not overpaying. But they need to amend his contract to match the new 280 character limit.

👓 Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret | Intelligencer | NYMag

Read Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret by Jonathan Chait (Intelligencer)
Congress has a clear legal right to examine Trump’s taxes. Republicans could not care less what the law says.
When a bad Democrat comes to power, the Republican party will have lost any moral authority for calling for ousters… We can’t have two sets of rules for our politicians. Either they follow the rules and mores or they don’t and Trump is wreaking a horrible precedent.

👓 She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it | CNN

Read She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it (CNN)
Oregon medical students were shocked and surprised when they opened the cadaver of Rose Marie Bentley.

👓 Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies | Nature

Read Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies by Holly Else
Nobel-prizewinning biologist pioneered use of C. elegans as an animal model.
Watched W1A (Season 2, Episodes 1-4) from BBC | Netflix
Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes
Continuing on to finish off the second season. Some of the characters are beginning to feel weary to me, but they’re also such over-the-top caricatures that this would have been better to watch in smaller doses rather than two seasons at a time.

👓 College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street | Bloomberg

Read College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street by Claire Boston (Bloomberg)
Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.

🎧 The Daily: One Family’s Story of Survival and Loss in New Zealand | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: One Family’s Story of Survival and Loss in New Zealand from New York Times

The loved ones of a man killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks say goodbye to a son, father, husband and brother.

👓 Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes | The WordPress.com Blog

Read Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes (The WordPress.com Blog)
Elevate your business website with one of our six new free themes! Calm, sophisticated, friendly, professional, elegant, modern — find the style that’s just right for you.

👓 Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard | The WordPress.com Blog

Read Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard (The WordPress.com Blog)
We’re happy to announce new improvements to your WordPress.com dashboard for a more accessible and customized experience. From your desktop, you can now customize your dashboard by choosing one of …

👓 How to publish a calendar feed from Google Calendar or Hotmail (Outlook.com) Calendar | Jon Udell

Read How to publish a calendar feed from Google Calendar or Hotmail (Outlook.com) Calendar by Jon Udell (jonudell.net)
For quite a while I’ve had an upcoming events widget in the sidebar of my website. It was a simple HTML widget that was maintained by hand, but I’d been getting tired of updating it. To keep things a bit more DRY (aka don’t repeat yourself), I’m using the JetPack Upcoming Events widget now that pulls in iCal feed data from a special shared Google Calendar where I put my public events. This way I can put things in my calendar and my website will automatically update within an hour or two. Hooray for the little wins.