July / August web links

Gonna keep this one short and sweet.

Zzurgoll Take The Wheel (penny-arcade.com)

Amusing comic to set the tone here.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen (colincornaby.me)

This article captures the zeitgeist of being a software engineer in the summer of 2025.

They’re putting blue food coloring in everything (blog.foxtrotluna.social)

And this captures how it feels to live in summer 2025.

Signpost 2025-08-09Disinformation report (en.wikipedia.org)

Wikipedia editor goes on a multi language deep dive to expose someone’s self promotion operation. I find this stuff absolutely fascinating.

The Scam That Duped Pokémon’s Most Obsessive Card Collectors (popularmechanics.com)

Article about a scam in the Pokemon card collector community with good flavor on the collectors themselves and an interesting resolution. Proper caper.