internet explorers club | I welcome our new emoji overlords

🚨 NEW EMOJI ARE HERE 🚨 so I am celebrating with a million taco emojis. As should you.

Secondly, I’m assuming you have all heard about the potential alien megastructures that we’ve found circling KIC 8462852? I desperately, desperately want this to be true.

Ok, today is finally the day that this amazing Tumblr is obsolete. Instead of reading what every single brand is doing on this day (ugh), read this piece by Matt Zoller Seitz about our relationship with the past (both 1950s and 1980s) seen through the lens of Back to the Future.

Jess Zimmerman wrote a great piece about the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster as an actual drinkable beverage (or not), how it’s become a shibboleth at nerd bars, and what it tells us about nerd socialization.

The new Star Wars trailer is out, but you knew that already. If anyone wants to join me to eat these Star Wars desserts, please let me know. Also this Ewok bag will give you nightmares.

Cheese or Font is my new favorite quiz, and for as much as I am an aficionado of both cheese AND fonts, I did TERRIBLY.

Today in Hamilton: The New Yorker on the women of “Hamilton” and like oh my GOD the historian in me is thrilled with this:

…Eliza sings a fearsome anthem, “Burn,” taking revenge on Hamilton by destroying their correspondence—which Miranda cleverly casts as a self-aware historical act:

I’m erasing myself from the narrative.
Let future historians wonder
How Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.

Surely Miranda is poking fun at his own lack of primary sources when it came to dramatizing this moment in the Hamiltons’ marriage. But in embracing the enigma the song points to the larger problem of women’s history: the public records are thinner, the milieu is mostly domestic, and there’s more need for speculation. What was Eliza really thinking? Was burning her letters the only act of personal agency she had left?

Single Ladies X The Schuyler Sisters

Etcetera: There were way more women Viking warriors than we previously thought! A miniature museum that can sit on your desk. A project documenting all the tile signs in the New York Subway.