It Has Indeed Been A While

The most popular link last time (quite a while ago now!) was this piece about how Facebook is absolutely cooked, with this one about the life-changing value of having a good coat second.

1. Was 30 Rock actually a prophecy predicting what life would be like in 2026? Are we stuck in a never-ending season of Tina Fey's weird and weirdly popular 2006 sitcom? Probably yes.
2. Should We All Start Smoking Cigarettes Again? NO. But I do have sympathy for the "well, the world is ending anyway" logic of this piece in relation to being drawn to things that are bad for you. I would also appreciate it if the boys from Heated Rivalry could stop making smoking look hot in all their photoshoots.
3. Word of the day: sonder.
4. The only Devil Wears Prada 2 coverage I want is from Tina Brown.
5. I'm really enjoying Scratch, a new publication about writing. A couple of recent highlights: Rahawa Haile on what's going wrong with non-fiction publishing, and Maggie Mertens on feeling torn between the smartphone and the dumbphone as a writer.
6. A lovely meditation on making magnolia syrup.
7. The kids are all right (they're making Wikipedia pages for niche music subgenres).
8. Stephen Wolfram's productivity system is pure insanity. The man is never not looking at a screen!
9. My glasses are never clean, but I can pretend.
10. The evolution of Oscar Wilde's hair.
11. I don't know how to describe this but it made me think.
12. Radical idea: what if we were nice to pigeons?
13. There are more fountain pens in video games than you might think.
14. Everything you could possibly want to know about the fonts on the Kyiv metro.