internet explorers club | mad max, sad max, dad max

If you do nothing else, if you close this newsletter right now, you need to know that Facebook now has gif support (finally!).

Also speaking of Mad Max, have you seen Mad Max? The Internet is going nuts for it. Bloomberg has chronicled (almost) every car in the film (and someone has made those cars in Lego, too), people are going crazy reviewing chrome spray on Amazon, and someone has already giffed a Mario Kart mashup. Also, this. Because this film has been in production for a million years, there is some great concept art, some dating back to the mid-90s. Stephen Colbert referenced it in his commencement speech at Wake Forest:

In other, less post-apocalyptic, news: This site chronicles the ages of all the buildings in Los Angeles. This one pulls photos from the NYPL for different street corners of New York City. Both great.

The vast, unplayable history of video games is a fascinating look at how we don't archive video games, and for the record, Offworld, BoingBoing's foray into gaming headed up by Leigh Alexander, is well worth a bookmark.

Long(ish) reads: Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot? (that is literally the headline! Answer: yes, pretty much, but the article is a wild ride). When Online Friendships are more Honest than Offline Ones.

Etcetera: Scientists figured out what makes holes in Swiss cheese: hay particles! Frolicking sumo.