Fifteen minutes of linkfinding.

ReadWriteWeb: Apple iMac could be set to try out touchscreen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. After I use my iPad, it drives me crazy when I try poking my laptop or desktop’s screen.

Paris Review: Backyard Bird Diary. Always wanted to create one of these kinds of diaries. Been a long time since I’ve sketched. I should buy some colored pencils.

Capital+Main: Power of the Pulpit: How Conservative Congregations Scale the Church-State Wall to Political Victory. Listen to what Bible scholar Dan McLellan says about this.

AppleInsider: Neil Young tries excusing his return to Spotify by saying Apple Music is now as bad. Water-drop torture is the same, no matter the brand.

PVC: Podcast playback: immersive reading + italics on website-desktop & mobile. I know there are rules for use of italics; I use them when they make the most sense for emphasis. Keeping their ‘power’ is paramount.

Vox: Biden is not “waging war” on American energy. He’s boosting it. Yet OPEC still has its heavy hand on prices. Seen that recent $0.30/gallon price increase?

DP Review: Nikon Z9 gets firmware v5.0 with portrait processing options and feature refinements. A Z8 or Z9 is on my dream wishlist.

SciAm: How the Solar Eclipse will impact electricity supplies. Paywall keeps me out. If you’ve got a subscription, enjoy.

CNet: Do You Need a Screen for a Projector? As an A/V professional, I can tell you that you’ll be blown away by the quality of a good projection screen. The materials have advanced so very far. Contrast and color are exponentially better than they were just a decade ago.

Zeldman: Open-source moderation.

WaPo: The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.

“Republicans have increasingly campaigned on the idea that immigrants have hurt the economy and taken Americans’ jobs. But the economic record largely shows the opposite.

Many sections of America would be grinding to a halt, sans immigrants. Not just agriculture, but urban areas as well. Again, this is why some conservatives are fasttracking child labor, trying to keep immigration at bay. It’s a foolish endeavor; there aren’t enough ‘white kids’ to accomplish the task.

SF New Mexican: Minimum wage in Santa Fe going to $14.60 on March 1.

That’s great news. I’ve written about the living wage before. When it began to be applied, those businesses with threadbare business models died fast. Restaurants tried to reduce quality/portion sizes to keep prices steady for a while … then finally gave up and just raised their prices so they could support quality workers. Since then, everything else has been remarkably consistent (speaking as a consumer!).

Vox: Surprise! There’s a reason to be (cautiously) optimistic about the climate.

“We need to really get moving on this stuff. This is the worst time for people to disengage and look away. So, for me, the role of optimism is to drive people to actually take action.”

Small actions taken by lots of people can have huge effects, it’s true.

WaPo: For older women with money, it’s yes to love but ‘I don’t’ to marriage.

When I hear about long marriages breaking up because solo healthcare is cheaper to deal with when one of the pair is seriously ill, this makes very good sense. Welcome to today’s America. One wonders how the evangelical vote will handle this reality.

Capital + Main: Monopolies and the Real Cost of a Rigged Economy.

"The Democrats over the last 40 years through the imposition of neo-liberal ideology have sort of given up a lot of these industries and allowed a lot of this monopolization to take place. So you’re not getting a choice in those communities between prairie populists and conservative pro-business interests. You’re getting Democratic pro-business interests versus conservative pro-business interests."

Who stands for the rest of us, anymore? Don't miss reading this one.