A 3D Model of the now deceased Beauly Elm. The tree was “… rumored to be older than Britain itself.” Via Atlas Obscura.
Beauly Elm - 3D model by Historic Environment Scotland (@HistoricEnvironmentScotland) [bf14d2b]
Beauly Priory is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The area around Beauly, meaning ‘beautiful place’, includes several mature trees, including this ancient elm in the graveyard. It is thought to be around 800 years old, making it one of the oldest Wych Elms in Europe and a piece of heritage in its own right. Sadly, the tree has been suffering from Dutch elm disease in recent years and very little of its fabric is living material.
Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site.
The Revenge of the Home Page (newyorker.com)
More of this is being good at sales than anyone wants to admit.
Erika Hall on the job of a designer (linkedin.com)
Bradley Ziffer’s personal site (bradleyziffer.com)
A view source web (viewsource.info)
Piping at a subway station in Tokyo (migurski.tumblr.com)
Via https://arcadebroke.tumblr.com/post/746832187449556992/本所吾妻橋駅の配管
Enumerating all the ways the internet currently sucks. Example:
You buy a microwave and receive ads for microwaves. You buy a mattress and receive ads for mattresses.
No one wants this.
The article does end on a positive note:
You read the Wikipedia entry and there is a lot of useful information supplied by a community. One of the sources cited is a non-fiction book. You go to your local library’s website and although they don’t have the exact book, they do have others by the same author. You place a hold on two of them, then go get your shoes on.
/via Chris Glass
Heat Death of the Internet - takahē
You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring