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July 29th, outsourced

Just now I went to open up this week's links (they were in number not a few) and after highlighting them all, instead of clicking Open, I clicked Delete. Because I am awesome! I only remember a couple so that is all you get this week. :(

Delta's new airplane seating chart. Mwahahahahaha.

Nine non-threatening leadership tactics for women. Also Mwahahahaha. [HT Kat]

Alexandra Petri has been killing it over on WaPo this week covering the DNC (and RNC before that). It's like if Maggie Stiefvater wrote about politics. Start with Bill Clinton's speech, translated and go from there (just click on her name to see all the stuff she's written). (OK OK here is my other favorite: America, meet Time Kaine, your new stepdad.)

Aaaaaand I just noticed I did not delete the bookmarks after all. Yay! So here are more!

I am enchanted by these "American who just moved back to the US from Dubai" videos (there are five or six now). They make me laugh so much. That said, YMMV since some of these jokes are pretty specific. [HT Jeanelle]

The Olympian and the terrorist: a story of two Belgian brothers. [HT Ashi]

Jeremy and I are still figuring out how this works: visualizations of language relationships by translation. [HT David]

This really is the best video you will see of a small bird having fun on an airport moving walkway today.

THE OBAMA SEVEN ALMONDS THING WAS A JOKE. Or was it? I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE. [HT Andrew]

July 2016 books

July 2016 books

Sliced ice cream

Sliced ice cream