seo arms race: ploys for attention bifurcate the internet marketplace—one for humans and the other for robots
please have your boarding pass and identification ready: an appreciation of departure soundtracks of airliners—via Things Magazine
musical tangents: a genius, deranged mashup compilation—via Waxy dynasty x: the world’s first curated, public museum established by Babylonian Princess and High Priestess Ennigaldi-Nanna, rediscovered in 1925, had a collection of artefacts as far removed from its time as Ur was from ours
literal lexical calques: a new Spanish-English dialect emerges in southern Florida
nada: car dealer trade group writing state legislation prohibiting factory sales, requiring manufacturers to work with middlemen—more here
convergent evolution: Nature keeps making crabs and scientists aren’t sure why—via Kottke
phrygian mode: Ancient Roman popular music
unfulfilled: Amazon’s predatory cycle is transforming the EU into a planned economy
