Linkage

• Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays (The Guardian) I love me some history of technology.
• Cats shun expensive toys in photos on Boredom Therapy (Daily Mail Online) You buy a cat toys, it plays with the box it came in instead.
• Lots of ‘craft’ beer is brewed by Anheuser-Busch. Here’s how to spot the real stuff. (Washington Post) Basically, it's a private label that purports that the beer is not made by a conglomerate. Meh.
• Facebook: We're not just sexist, we're also innumerate! (Felix Salmon) Notes that Facebook's defense against accusations of sexism is to issue a correcting factor that that acknowledges existing sexism.
• Welcome to Our Startup Where Everyone is 23 Years Old Because We Believe Old People Are Visually Displeasing and Out of Ideas (McSweeney’s) Parody, but remarkably close to the truth.
• Ringless voicemail spam won’t be exempt from anti-robocall rules (Ars Technica) It turns out that there is a level of awfulness in business that even Republicans won't support in public.
• The Best Keyboard Ever Is Back  (Popular Mechanics)  Someone is releasing an updated version of IBM's buckling spring keyboard.  At $300, it's kind of pricey though.

John Oliver on Sinclair Group and media consolidation in the local news sphere: