internet explorers club | there is a class about wasting time on the internet

Today in: great names for lawsuits. Underground cheese markets in Russia. Content, forever. Sherlock meets Arrested Development. Doge bags. Doge snowglobes.

Someone is teaching a class called Wasting Time On The Internet and actually it looks great??

Although we’ll all be in the same room, our communication will happen exclusively through chat rooms and listservs, or over social media. Distraction and split attention will be mandatory. So will aimless drifting and intuitive surfing. The students will be encouraged to get lost on the Web, disappearing for three hours in a Situationist-inspired dérive, drowsily emerging from the digital haze only when class is over. We will enter a collective dreamspace, an experience out of which the students will be expected to render works of literature.

Fun Facts! Were you wondering what happens when you step on molten lava? (No, really!) Phillip Glass wrote an opera about Walt Disney! The Beatles released Christmas albums for their fans every year and I would bet dollars to doughnuts that my Aunt Marguerite has all of them!

Speaking of doughnuts, here's a great reason not to time travel before 1948:

Digging this experimental packaging made out of sugar, beeswax and agar-agar:

Serial has ended. Flavorwire actually did a lovely review of the final episode, and discusses why we've been so invested, and why we can't have a "satisfying" ending (p.s. it's because it's real). Also here's another remix (this one with Biggie).

Why not punch a Monet? (Virtually)

xoxo,
Emily