Our Brains Have Not Yet Evolved A Way Of Dealing With It

The most popular link last time was Timdle, with "The Missing 11th of the Month" second.

1. An incomplete list of things Jane Austen disliked, including Bath, the name Richard and "people who pretend to like music too much".
2. Lena Dunham's file organisation system makes me feel itchy and uncomfortable just looking at it (so many folders!) but maybe it will work for you?
3. Sometimes, humans do things that make me feel hopeful for the future of our species. Like painstakingly gathering and archiving the manuals for every single SNES game.

4. On the wonderful art of Margery Gill, who illustrated The Dark is Rising series among many other children's classics.
5. Spend some time perusing interactive maps of London, Oxford and York that show where all the medieval murders happened.
6. Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse.
7. Also in AI-related news: one writer goes back to pen and paper.
8. Book cover designers critique their own work. I liked this comment:

"Designing these covers is a joy. My brief is generally: This is the new book by Zadie Smith. The cover needs to convey: ‘This is the new book by Zadie Smith.’"

10. It's not your fault that you can't work out what to do with your life: this has only been a question humans have faced since about 1850 and our brains have not yet evolved a way of dealing with it. Apparently.

11. An adult has fun doing some mediocre drawings of Stonehenge. Or rather, he describes them as "mediocre", I think they're intriguing.
12. I like this blog by "Retired Martin", who spends his free time going to interesting pubs and looking at nice views.
13. A theory of a certain kind of new novel: one which is designed to be optioned for TV, because that's one of the only ways left a novelist can make a lot of money.
14. Forget willpower. Winners take shortcuts.