clippit: a biography of the MicroSoft Office virtual assistant
banana for scale: megalophobia-inducing images to make you as a human feel small and insignificant
scotty, bones and chekov: Tom Snyder (previously) interviews Star Trek personalities during a 1976 convention flagship store: fashion brand Gucci opens up in Detroit—via Nag on the Lake
pillow-talk: the history of bundling, the sixteenth and seventeenth custom of allowing pre-martial sleeping arrangements—via Messy Nessy Chic
sabbatical: oh no—after seventeen years Futility Closet is taking a hiatus—see also
it’s a reference to don quixote: a selection of literary nods from They Might Be Giants—see previously
book it: incentivising reading with pizza
