internet explorers club | the more things change

Osaka is turning its river into a giant conveyer belt of sushi in October! This is seriously competing with the giant rubber duck for my favorite piece of public art.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: medieval students asking for money. Also just found out about this Roman dice tower from the 4th century which has the best inscription: THE PICTS ARE DEFEATED. THE ENEMY IS DESTROYED. PLAY IN SAFETY.

Obviously I am not one to talk, considering I spent two distinct periods of my life dressing up in fashions that went out of date 150-200 years ago, but this couple that dresses up in Victorian clothes 24/7 is exhausting. A few people have articulated why far better than I have: Rebecca Onion of Slate, illuminates the historical perspective beautifully. The Toast response is just called “I Love 2012. So I Decided To Live In It.”

Want to live in the past? May I recommend instead this “Renaissance Revenge Simulator,” where you play a woman using her skills at court to seduce and kill potential suitors as revenge for her family being killed by the evil prince. While we’re talking about games, this article from Offworld about the queer masculinity of stealth games is fascinating.

The only world I want to live in is the world of Harry Potter, and if you want to join me, there’s a new Harry Potter bar called the Lockhart (!) in Toronto now.

EMOJI UPDATE: New screenshots of Apple’s iOS 9.1 have come out, and who cares about the rest, they contain new emoji! Actually, the choices are pretty weird. The hugging face emoji is clearly the creepiest (my sister makes a compelling argument to rename it “Jazz Hands emoji”) and the campaign for an accurate taco emoji has failed. I’m pretty excited about dagger knife, which will make my Game of Thrones texts that much better.

Etcetera: Universal has optioned Animorphs for a feature film. Sausage-addicted kookaburra too fat to fly. Huell Howser’s volcano-top mid-century house in the Mojave Desert is for sale!