I know we said we would do less link-blogging, but we didn’t say we would do no link-blogging. We used to do the Morning Constitutional, which was a daily roundup of news stories we found important/interesting, and Till the End of the Day (yes, this is a Kinks reference), which was more a dump of things we found during the day that we thought were cool. We bagged the Morning Constitutional for the return of the blog partially because it was a ton of work, but mostly because all the news now is behind paywalls, and that’s frustrating and probably destroying democracy. Consider this a rebirth of Till the End of the Day, but will definitely be way more sporadic. (Note that the old Till the End of the Days all got lost in the archive/import process.)
Here are some links to end your day/week:
Never the same game twice: A cool look back at Parker Brothers games from the 1970s.
The stuff of legends, Fugazi’s session for their record In On The Killtaker with storied producer Steve Albini has been released for the first time. With proceeds going to Letters Charity.
Make sure to check out De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert if you haven’t yet.
Blatten, a small village in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed by an avalanche, almost certainly caused by climate change. They plan to rebuild. But with temperatures in the Swiss Alps climbing faster than the global average, should they? (There is some incredible imagery in this one.)
Speaking of my attention span.
Jimi Hendrix wasn’t just a guitarist—he was a systems engineer.
On the so-called death of the college essay.
Hey, don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend. I think it’s spring back, fall behind? Fall back, spring forward? Whatever, at least it will be light out later.
