Once a Week Episode #264
1. THE ENDURING ALLURE OF CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BOOKS. LESLIE JAMISON
"You always followed the rules. But, when you ate an entire sleeve of graham crackers and sank into the couch with a Choose Your Own Adventure book, you got to imagine that you were getting into trouble in outer space, or in the future, or under the sea. You got to make choices every few pages: Do you ask the ghost about her intentions, or run away? Do you rebel against the alien overlords, or blindly obey them??
The eighties book craze gave young readers the opportunity to inhabit bolder versions of themselves, or diverging selves that followed many different paths at once."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-enduring-allure-of-choose-your-own-adventure-books?
2. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE'S GEOTAGGED SINGLE IS A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. MARAH EIKIN
"Rand McNally” can only be accessed digitally at the more than 800 venues where the band has played."
3. THE LAST FLOPPY DISK. NIEK HILKMANN & THOMAS WALSKAAR
"Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think"
4. THIS CLEVER APP TELLS YOU WHAT TO BUILD WITH YOUR LEGO PILE. MICHELLE DEBCZAK
5. JUST FOR INSPIRATION. EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE. ELECTROLUX
A killer PSA from Electrolux.