You Need the Silver Arrow
In no particular order, some highlights from the many, many tabs I’ve had open on my Web browsers the past forever.
- The heading “Every Sufficiently Large Web Company Wants to Become the Internet” is the primary thesis of this Lifehacker story. Its evidence is Google.
- Another way of saying kids these days think milk comes from Kroger. Not unrelated: In Salinas, California, my great-grandfather used to rent out his chicken coop to itinerant workers, there to help build up Fort Ord during World War II.
- Catherine Moffat’s meditation on reading, the limitations of age, and the always imperfect promise that technology offers to those with disabilities is lovely—much lovelier than the post of mine she links to.
- In case you think somebody other than Novak Djokovich will win at Roland-Garros this year, you might want to brush up on the physics of court surfaces.
- The story of how communion wafers are made and who makes them is the story of the twentieth century overtaking the thirteenth, as churches, already consumers of one sort, become consumers of another, and it’s really quite fascinating.
