internet explorers club | ephemera, memory, reality

To begin with, I am completely obsessed with the New York Public Library's Building Inspector. They digitized all their old maps of NYC, then warped them to actually fit onto current maps, and put them in a program where they crowdsource any mistakes - edges of buildings, color (i.e. type), etc. I cannot stop "playing."

Someone created a website that deleted itself as soon as it was indexed by Google.

Steve Rousseau wrote on the idea of the Invisible Boyfriend / Girlfriend concept, how he tested it out as a lark, but ended up invested.

The Invisible Girlfriend article was beautifully illustrated (as you can see) by Molly Brooks, and from perusing her site, I found this comic on how sports and life are similar in their inability to follow a narrative.

Thought Clock is the work of Laura Olin (who also has a great newsletter that changes topic / format every week) who asked all her subscribers to post what they were thinking about in that exact moment. She created a Google spreadsheet with the results, sorted by what time they arrived.

Records made out of ice and wood (to the right is the silicone mold for the ice one)

Etcetera: Apple Watch review or William Faulkner?

xoxo Emily
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