internet explorers club | what do you name your hard drive?

Please, everyone install this chrome extension that replaces "millennials" with "snake people."

Tim Carmody wrote a lovely piece about how we anthropomorphize our digital devices, and particularly, how, seemingly across the board, people create schemes to name them. Here's his rough overview of the schema:

Your machine scheme should be flexible enough for new devices to be added if needed, to replace old machines. And ideally, your scheme should reflect:something about you and your tastessomething about the network and its behaviorand something about the devices themselves, reflecting their real and/or hallucinated personalities.

I love this because this is something I have done for years, and didn't think about what others did, apart from the stray nerdy WiFi network name. All my peripherals (Kindles, iPods, etc) are named after members of the VFD from A Series of Unfortunate Events, whereas my backup drives all reference time travel of some kind.

Even more new emoji on the horizon, including ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (kind of). Looking for the taco? It'll be in Unicode 8, which is coming out God-only-knows-when. Apparently "Man In Business Suit Levitating" was a more critical inclusion. In the meantime, here is the history of emoji article that you've been waiting for (I know I have been).

Long Reads: If for some reason, you haven't read the New York Times's exposé on Manhattan nail salons, please remedy that immediately. I also recommend this New Yorker piece on Gerry Adams and the disappearance of Jean McConnville.

Etcetera: How many people are in space right now? Late 19th century acquaintance cards. The Detroit Zoo has named their new warthogs after Game of Thrones characters. The Getty has rearranged galleries so people can take better selfies with their 18th century mirrors (I think this is fantastic).