Quote: “Two years ago, the World Bank Group launched a revamped Scorecard not as another report but as a promise: that measuring impact would become part of how we think and work.” Dana sez, go there, look at that, pretty nifty tool. (h/t Fix the News)
Quote: “At this point, her project took a turn, as she began searching online for more gravestone recipes.” Touching, with just a pinch of macabre. And here’s the book. (Smithsonian)
Worth the watch. (Jamelle Bouie)
All you need to know. Heh. (Many more fun videos at the link, Bill Wurtz)
Quote: “In other words, going to Cancun for a week on spring break probably won’t make a person any more creative. But going to Cancun and living with local fishermen might.” (The Atlantic)
And some great news–a Friend of Storyknife has pledged to match dollar for dollar up to $35,000 in this year’s fall challenge!
Click here and hey, presto, double your donation!
And on behalf of the Storyknife residents of 2026,
thank you all so much for your support!
Quote for the day
I am pissed off when I find myself in a restaurant where the first thing other diners do when their food arrives is to Instagram it. And of course chefs now pandering to this obsession by producing dishes that look as if they have been constructed by microsurgeons. (My late lamented brother-in-law used to call this “starvation at £100 a plate”.) —John Naughton
Outro…
And the one, the only original.
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