The findings this week:

1. Similarities between recording a computer playing music and recording a human playing music
   
   
   
   
   
2. More from Beverly Cleary's autobiography My Own Two Feet
   
   
   
   
   
   • My Own Two Feet (autobiography)
   
   
   
   
   • Smudge pots
   
   
   
   
   • Telegram service level in the 1930s
   
   
   
   
   • Engineer stereotypes in the '30s
   
   
   
   
   • A sandwich spread recipe (the deluxe kind, with bologna)
   
   
   
   
   • Boarding houses
   
   
   
   
   • Library schools and attitude grading in the '30s
   
   
   
   
   • Beverly Cleary's first book deal
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Bands' messages and politicians
   
   
   
   
   
   • NOFX lost their beer deal
   
   
   
   
   • Rage Against the Machine's response to Paul Ryan being a fan
   
   
   
   
   • NPR on Napalm Death and the president of Indonesia
   
   
   
   
   • Harmony Corruption, a great Napalm Death album reported to have been huge in Indonesia
   
   
   
   
   
   

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